Pamela Anderson at a screening of her documentary in New York this month and,right,the cover of Love,Pamela.Credit:Getty Images
In fact,she supports him and her inadequate – the kindest word – mother in the style they’ve become accustomed to since their kittenish daughter caught the eye of Hugh “Playboy” Hefner. Anderson writes that her partying at the Playboy mansion was “innocent for debauchery”.
Perhaps you have not heard of or,like me,dismissed Pamela Anderson? The kittenish Canadian was a star on the 1990s American TV show,Baywatch. This involved tremendous chest-value sprinting across sand in a red bathing suit and her in a tremendous chest-improving bout of surgery.
Anderson is now more than midway through life and has decided to write the story of her life simultaneously as Netflix has filmed a doco. A bit like Harry and Meghan. We are watching the evolution of a nascent genre:book and doco,springing from reality TV,enabled by streaming,and guaranteed by a public addiction to celebrity.
Anderson has much in common with the two ex-royals. She’s very smart,she’s compassionate,she’s full of empathy,she loves dogs,beautiful men and children,she’s curious about everything;in short,like them,she’s easy to like. Her life,lived to the hilt and beyond,is full of interest.
Pamela Anderson with former husband Tommy Lee in 1995. The couple divorced in 1998.Credit:AP
This is not the usual celebratory memoir underwritten by a ghost. Every word is hers. And unlike Harry and Meghan,Pamela has not had to filter anything. Or if she does,it is with kindness and love.
She even speaks with love of Tommy Lee,who was a drummer in a heavy metal band. “Tommy was the man of my dreams – so handsome … covered in a thoughtful story of tattoos … Being with him I felt complete.”