The 55-year-old Baywatch star is releasing both a memoir and Netflix documentary this week.
In the 30-odd years since she first ran along the California beaches in Baywatch - the lifeguard drama that remains one of the most-watched series ever - fans and critics have become acquainted with different parts of Pamela Anderson's life story: Playboy covers, a leaked sex tape and many marriages.
"I blocked that stolen tape out of my life to survive. And now that it's coming up again, I feel sick," she says in the documentary trailer. "I want to take control of the narrative for the first time." And Anderson, too, suffered harrowing abuse, recounting three separate instances of sexual violence, all before she turned 18.In one, Anderson says she was molested by a female baby-sitter between the ages of six and 10. "My parents thought she was generous and kind, when really, it was just a way to get them off the scent," she writes. "At the time I couldn't understand any of it. She threatened me and told me not to tell anyone. Or else.
"Doing that first photoshoot gave me this little kind of portal on what it felt like to be a sensual woman," Anderson said. "My sexuality was mine. I took my power back."
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