Pamela Anderson’s Netflix documentary is a heartbreaking declaration of love to Tommy Lee

Netflix is ​​​​​​where every serial killer gets their true crime series. And where anyone who feels unfairly treated can make documentaries about their true story. Netflix is ​​​​​​inspired by a very big giver mentality. Or through an insatiable voyeurism that is only too successfully conveyed to the public. Millions and millions want to know how bad someone can be. Or how bad a person can be.

Thankfully, Pamela Anderson isn’t doing too bad. Or not anymore. She made the documentary “Pamela: A Love Story” (directed by Ryan White) at a time when many things are going well: her career is taking off on Broadway, her parents are still together and happier than ever, their two sons Brandon and Dylan dearly love their mother, husband number five, a contractor, built her a dream house on a beach on their childhood island Vancouver Island, and she has been laughing out loud for much of her life.

Needless to say, she is no longer with husband number five, her pandemic marriage. In a candlelit bubble bath, she vows never to marry again. On the one hand. On the other hand, she just fucking likes it. Because she is a disciple of love. She especially loves love and every possible romantic transfiguration of it. But only once did love manage to surpass even Pamela’s exaggerated ideas about it. That was her downfall.

But first she takes us to a childhood between protected and threatened, the parents – a waitress and a compulsive chimney sweep – argue often and violently, but they make amends and love each other very much despite everything. At the age of twenty, Pamela first ventured from Vancouver Island to the mainland, where she was soon discovered as an advertising face, courted by Playboy, and flown to LA.

She experiences Hugh Hefner and his entourage as a great fairy tale, she loves the erotic shoot, it was just fun and gave her back the power over her sexuality, she says today. When she was 12, she was abused by an older babysitter.

The lifeguard series “Baywatch” is calling, and if you can believe it, the biggest fun job in TV history begins: beach life de luxe and all men are in love with it. Not just in America. “Baywatch” quickly became the most popular series of the early 90s, it was the first American TV production to be shown in China, and today when Pamela leafs through her diaries, she is amazed at the chaos she had with her lovers. There were many. Sometimes two in a day.

And then came Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee. Met her in LA on New Year’s Eve 1994 and followed her to Cancun for a shoot. There they fell in love with the help of champagne and ecstasy. After four days they got married on the beach. “I was a romantic little hippie,” she says. He is the first man who only loves her and only wants her, she is not used to this straightforwardness from men or from herself.

Everything is right, the sex, the enormous eccentricity of the two, the romance that manifests itself in the most clichéd productions, nothing should be missing, not even the gondola ride in Venice. It is a sweet, almost childlike happiness that they radiate in their many home videos, which Pamela cherishes to this day. Pamela’s sons are also completely moved before the scenes of a wedding.

The two showbiz people Pam and Tommy live their lives ready for film, there is no more beautiful romantic comedy. The soundtrack to this is Pamela’s diary entries, which she recites herself in a cotton candy voice. It’s like a whole herd of rainbow unicorns sighing. This woman wants kitsch with all her might.

Unfortunately, the two also let the camera roll during sex. The rest is internet history: the safe containing the shadowy videotapes is stolen during construction, the clearest scenes are cut to tape and sold over the internet, Pam and Tommy take legal action against this, unsuccessfully, the judge rules that a woman who has already has undressed for “Playboy” has no right to protection of her privacy. Pamela Anderson is a public body. For Tommy’s image the whole thing increases potency, for her it is a catastrophe, she degenerates into “a caricature”.

In 1998 she called the police, Tommy beat her while holding her baby, he was jailed for half a year, they divorced and then raised the two sons together, by half consensus. Dylan and Brandon are convinced that there are no crazier people than their parents. And no woman as selfless as her mother. Once a lifeguard, always a lifeguard.

Pamela Anderson decides to flee to the front. She no longer has a film career and she only has one thing left to sell: her skin. She wants to help the only creatures she trusts, the animals. She has herself photographed naked for animal protection organization PETA. But her main job is mother and short-lived wife. She marries the musician Kid Rock because he is “good for the boys”, she does not love him. She marries actor Rick Salomon, but leaves him when he hides his crack pipes in the Christmas tree. She just wants to provide her children with a healthy family.

Only with Julian Assange does she seem to have had only friendly ties. Before the pandemic, she visited him a few times in London at the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​they talked for a few hours, she admired him for devoting his life completely to truth and enlightenment for her, he preached to her about the fact that the Internet is not all bad despite the leaked tape.

Tommy Lee remains the love of her life, and she comes to this conclusion again and again, even today: “I’d rather be alone than not with the father of my children. But I also can’t imagine being with Tommy .” It’s heartbreaking.

She hasn’t seen the Hulu series “Pam & Tommy” yet, and she and her sons hate the idea that the man who stole the safe and tapes and made her life hell should be given credit for what he did. did. Furthermore, she has no regrets and no grudge against anyone: “I am not a victim. I put myself in crazy situations and survived them.”

She tells her moving story without any sadness. Instead of tears, she prefers to decorate talking about her life with lots of contagious laughter. Harry and Meghan should remember that.

Pamela: A Love Story is now streaming on Netflix.