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Pamela Anderson,55, made a name for herself by modelling for Playboy, and went on to appear on the magazine's cover 14 times - more than any other model.
When Hugh passed away in September 2017, his legacy was somewhat tarnished by multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, manipulation, rape, and molestation from former models, partners, and employees on the shocking ten-part A&E series Secrets of Playboy.
Most of these allegations have not been subject to criminal investigations or charges, since they don't constitute proof of guilt.
But, if you ask Pamela, Hugh was her knight in shining armour
Most of these allegations have not been subject to criminal investigations or charges, since they don't constitute proof of guilt.
But, if you ask Pamela, Hugh was her knight in shining armour.
Asked in an interview with The Times if any man had ever 'treated her with complete and utter respect', Pamela answered, 'Hugh Hefner.'
The actor says her troublesome childhood made her a 'painfully shy' young woman.
But when Hugh gave Pamela her first Playboy shoot, she says that she was finally able to 'take her power back
in April 1991, Pamela Anderson emerged from her dressing room on the Walt Disney Studios lot and found series star Tim Allen loitering in the hallway in a bathrobe.
This seemed normal to the 23-year-old budding actress, but it wasn’t. “He opened his robe and flashed me quickly — completely naked underneath,” Anderson writes in her soon-to-be-released memoir, “Love, Pamela.” “He said it was only fair, because he had seen me naked. Now we’re even.”
The incident, which unfolded just 18 months after Anderson left her small-town home on Vancouver Island and quickly became a Playboy goddess (which is how Allen saw her naked), offers a window into the liberties people have taken because they think they know her.
The Allen encounter reflects a pattern, in fact, that continued right up until last year, when a group made up of mostly male producers (led by Seth Rogen) felt entitled enough to bring forth a Hulu series about a crime perpetrated against Anderson: the theft and distribution of a videotape that contained footage of her and her then-husband Tommy Lee having sex.
It happened during the very early days of the internet, and it changed our perceptions about celebrity and privacy. Naturally, no one asked if Anderson was OK with the series.
Thirty-three years ago, Anderson arrived in L.A. from Canada, a 22-year-old kid escaping an abusive fiancé. Playboy was footing the hotel bill as well as her first-class airfare, hoping that the fresh-faced Labatt’s beer girl might be a potential cover model for the February 1990 edition.
In fact, the Playboy scouts had done well: Over time, Anderson would become the next North American bombshell, like Marilyn Monroe before her, and one of the most recognizable women in the world, thanks to a record-setting 11 Playboy covers and “Baywatch.” Along the way, she’d inadvertently usher in the modern tabloid era, with the intrusive glare on her marriage to Lee and that pilfered sex tape that “ruined lives,” as she tells it.
But Anderson isn’t bitter; she’s even extended an olive branch to Lily James, who plays her in the series. “I said to Netflix, ‘I’d love to invite Lily to the premiere of the movie,’” Anderson says, balancing a piece of toast topped with peanut butter on her palm. “I think it’s hard to play somebody when you don’t know the whole picture. I’ve got nothing against Lily James. I think that she’s a beautiful girl and she was just doing the job.
These days, Anderson is living the mirror version of her 22-year-old self. She wakes up at 4 or 5 a.m., around the same time she used to head home after a night of partying with Lee. She bought the property in Ladysmith from her grandmother decades ago.
Her parents take care of her five dogs — adopted from all over the world — when she’s traveling. She’s alone for the first time since she can remember. No famous man with whom to share the remote control.
Anderson alleges that Allen flashed her and showed her his penis while working on the sitcom in 1991, when she was 23 and Allen was 37.
Earlier this week, Allen denied the incident took place, and now Anderson appears to want to make it known she has no ill will regarding what she says happened.
Anderson posed for Playboy several times throughout her career, with her first appearance, in 1989, a couple of years before the alleged incident.
“No, it never happened,” Allen said in a statement to CNN Monday. “I would never do such a thing.”
Anderson is also the subject of “Pamela, a love story,” which is set to premiere on Netflix January 31, the same day her memoir is scheduled to be published
