“There was no constraint, no limit. She answered the questions very directly, ”says Audrey Crespo-Mara to 20 minutes. Pamela Anderson, who published her memoir, gave an exclusive interview to seven to eight. It will be the subject, this Sunday, of the portrait of the week of the TF1 program which will be broadcast at 7:30 p.m. The journalist comes back for us on the course of this interview.
Did Pamela Anderson surprise you?
She is very far from the image of superficial and brainless bimbo that one can have of her. It is obviously much more complex than that. She is intelligent, interesting, her life is full of trials. At 55, she is keen to tell who she really is. His life is exciting. The image we have of her, when she started out naked on the cover of Playboy or running in slow motion on the beaches of Malibu, allowed her to become a planetary star but also consumed her.
Has it imposed any special conditions?
The only condition was that I go to join her in Los Angeles, where she lives, since she was not traveling to Paris. But there was no constraint, no questioning about the questions I could ask him.
So there was no prohibited question?
No way. She pulls out her memoirs, so she talks about everything. She talks about the trials of her life. She is a wounded child. His father was an alcoholic and violent towards his mother. At 5 or 6 years old, her babysitter abused her, then she suffered another rape at the age of 12 by a man who was 25. She wanted to free herself from this abused body by exposing it to the one of Playboy, it may seem paradoxical but, for her, it was a way of reversing things and doing what she wanted with her body. In her sentimental life, she fell in love with bad boys, of men who looked like her father, except that she, she, left with the first blows. She recounts a very violent night with Tommy Lee, the father of her children and first great love. She left him, they divorced, he was sentenced to six months in prison for domestic violence. She says: “My mother chose my father, I chose my children. »
She talks about her “bimbo” image?
Yes, she realized that she escaped him and got fed up. She wanted to use this image that served her to highlight the animal cause that is so close to her heart. From being an object woman for men, she has become a committed woman for animals. She used her media coverage to get things done. She has become the Brigitte Bardot across the Atlantic and today she feels she is more respected. It was this path of life that was fascinating to discuss with her.
She also answered questions about her ex-boyfriend Adil Rami?
I didn’t ask him about it. there were so many things to tell that were much more important in his life than we didn’t mention.