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Topics: Celebrity, Pamela Anderson, TV And Film, Mental Health
Britt Jones
Topics: Celebrity, Pamela Anderson, TV And Film, Mental Health
Pamela Anderson opened up about her life and career, revealing a sad truth about her time after Baywatch.
The blonde bombshell didn’t hold back during her time on the stage accepting the Golden Eye Award at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland on Saturday (5 October).
The actress spoke about her career, particularly around the time she left her hit TV show.
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Baywatch was the 1989 drama which focused on a group of impeccably fit lifeguards on the beaches of Los Angeles County, California and Hawaii.
It starred David Hasselhoff, Pamela, Alexandra Paul, Gregory Alan Williams, Jeremy Jackson, Parker Stevenson, David Chokachi, Billy Warlock, Erika Eleniak, David Charvet, Yasmine Bleeth and Nicole Eggert and was a US staple at the time.
According to Variety, Pamela said: “I look at it now, and it feels like I went from Baywatch to Broadway. I don’t know what happened in between. It’s all a big blur.”
In relation to Broadway, she may have been speaking about her debut on the stage in 2022 where she played Roxie Hart in Chicago, who Renee Zellweger played in the live-action film.
Her character is accused of shooting her lover three times, for which she blames her husband.
However, it was found that she shot him in a bid to use his connections to enter the world of fame, and when he revealed to her that it was all a lie, she murdered him.
She then went on to land roles in productions such as The Last Showgirl, Naked Gun and Rosebush Pruning.
However, the blur the actress was talking about has a heartbreaking root.
For her, she believes it was caused by mental health problems.
At the event she explained: “I am just happy to be here, in this moment, because I think I have had depression for a couple of decades.”
She then went on to explain how happy she is to be booked up with work again and thinks her Netflix documentary, Pamela, a Love Story, helped to boost her career again.
She said: “I always knew I was capable of more. It’s great to be a part of pop culture, but it’s a blessing and a curse. People fall in love with you because of a bathing suit. It has taken a long time, but I am here.”
Pamela previously told Collider that she thought she was ‘never gonna get the chance to do anything like this’.
She explained: “I kind of thought, ‘Oh, well, that’s what people think of me. I’m just gonna go back to my farm, make jam and that’s it. I’ll figure out another way to make my life beautiful.’
“But the documentary came out, the book came out and Gia [Coppola] saw the documentary. She must be some kind of master or prophet or something, but she was so wonderful to send the script to me, and I read it and I was like, ‘Oh God, this is that thing.
"This is that thing when people read a script and they really realize they’re the only ones that can do it. They have to do it. It’s life and death.’ And I felt that way, and I get chills even thinking about it.”