After months of speculation, Pamela will set the record for the controversial Hulu series, Pam & Tommy, which retells the story of how the couple’s sex tape was stolen and distributed against their will.
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Pamela Anderson spoke for the first time after reports that she felt “disturbed” by the unauthorized retelling of her operation at Hulu’s Pam & Tommy – and seemed ready to share her side of the story.
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The eight-part series – which reviews the unconsensual distribution of Pamela and Tommy Lee’s stolen sex tape in the 1990s – met with overwhelming reaction after it was revealed that the show was aired without the approval of those involved. the crime in real life.
A number of people close to Pamela, including her friend Courtney Love, say the new show has removed the “complex trauma” for the Baywatch star, with a source claiming she feels “broken to this day.”
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“The upcoming Pam & Tommy Hulu series was very painful for Pamela Anderson and anyone who loves her,” an insider told Entertainment Tonight in January, ahead of the show’s February 2 premiere. “It is shocking that this series is allowed to happen without her approval,” they added.
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Despite excerpts from unconfirmed insights from relatives, Pamela herself remained silent about the series, which was called upon to “make victims experience their trauma” in the name of entertainment and monetary gain.
As long as you make the victims experience their trauma for fun. It’s the same with serial killer movies. Everything is so strange and disrespectful. I will not watch this mess https://t.co/uNCkOOE6ah
However, on Wednesday night – before the release of the penultimate episode of Pam and Tommy – the woman at the center of the incident finally issued a statement promising to “tell the true story.”
In a handwritten note uploaded to her Instagram account, Pam appears to be formally challenging Hulu’s portrayal of her experience and annoying an upcoming Netflix documentary in which she tells the truth about her story.
“My life. A thousand imperfections. A million misperceptions. Evil, wild and lost. I have nothing to consider,” reads the statement, which she shared shortly after deleting her Instagram page from previous posts.
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“I can only surprise you. Not a victim, but a survivor. And alive to tell the real story, “she concludes before giving up a kiss smeared with red lipstick.
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According to a subsequent statement from Netflix, the as-yet-unnamed documentary has been in the making for several years and will provide fans with “an intimate portrait embedded in Pamela Anderson’s life as she looks back on her professional and personal journey and prepares for the next steps.” in her journey.
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The streamer also revealed that the documentary will include exclusive archival footage, as well as excerpts from Pamela’s private magazines, to better explore every aspect of her experience as a pop culture icon, in her own words.
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The document will be directed by Ryan White – best known for the 2017 Netflix investigative documentary series The Keepers – with Brandon Thomas Lee, the eldest son of Pamela and Tommy, named as the project’s producer.
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Pamela’s statement seems to confirm months of speculation about her thoughts on Pam & Tommy, which – according to its creators – were made with the intention of creating justice for the victims at the core.
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“The opportunity was to tell something that is emotional and funny, real and difficult,” executive producer Sue Nigel said in an interview with Variety in January.
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“In the 1990s, there was an unfair cultural response. It bothered me then. And I think the chance to tell the story and make people see and understand how it’s nobody’s business was not right for anyone, “she added.
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Even before the first episode of Pam and Tommy aired, social media was flooded with criticism from people who were outraged by the apparent irony of retelling the unconsensual distribution of a sex tape without the consent of the people it portrays.
the absolute strangeness of making a series about the distribution of a sex tape without the consent without the consent of the subject https://t.co/Z0WMC5cXb6
Many felt like history was repeating itself and called on the show’s creators to seemingly try to “profit” from the couple’s exploitation for the second time.
So they’re doing the same thing that happened to her years ago and they want to acknowledge this problem by running a TV show about her life there without her permission, just to take advantage of their pain? EVIL https://t.co/7y9CnG2vrU
However, the people behind Pam & Tommy said they hoped they would “do the right thing” from Pamela.
In the same interview with Variety, executive producer DV DeVincentis said they hope to shed new light on the patriarchal double standards that play in the public eye of the tape, in which Tommy is elevated to sex symbol status while Pam is embarrassed and villainous. .
“With Pamela Anderson, what I always come back to is this [she and Tommy] they were doing exactly the same thing. And filmed doing exactly the same thing together, “said DeVincentis.
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“One of them was embarrassed and practically kicked out of business and became a frivolous person,” they said of Pamela’s experience. “The other got a new act and became this sex god. And the only difference between these two people [was] their gender. It is.”
Although facing much wider criticism, some praised the show for highlighting this particular inequality in its retelling. However, we look forward to hearing Pamela’s story when her documentary is released later.
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