Pamela Anderson Never Watched Her Sex Tape
Pamela Anderson was in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the sex tape with the most downloads, but she herself has never watched it.
The Baywatch alum appeared on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live on Thursday and was grilled by Andy Cohen about the infamous home video she made with then-husband Tommy Lee on their honeymoon in 1995.
“I’ve never seen it,” the 48-year-old blonde, who has two sons with her ex-husband Lee (Brandon, 19, and Dylan, 17) told the surprised host, who offered up his own review, “You’ve never seen it? It’s fantastic.”
Not only didn’t Pam see it, but she didn’t profit from it either. “I made not one dollar,” said the star, who has had financial problems through the years. “It was stolen property. We made a deal to stop all the shenanigans.”
Anderson explained why she gave up on fighting the distribution of the 54-minute video, which was stolen from a safe in their home shortly after it was recorded. (If you haven’t read that story, it’s worth it. It started with a dispute over construction, peaked with Lee pulling a shotgun, was followed by a safe heist, and the rest is now online history.)
“I was seven months pregnant with Dylan and thinking it was affecting the pregnancy with the stress and said, ‘I’m not going to court anymore. I’m not being deposed anymore by these horny, weird lawyer men. I don’t want to talk about my vagina anymore or my public sex — anything,’” she said. “Neither of us made any money from it. [Penthouse founder] Bob Guccione offered us millions of dollars for it [but] it was already out [and the] damage was done. So we just said, 'No way. We’re not getting involved in that.’”
Obviously Anderson’s sex tape led to a flurry of other ones that stars, including Kim Kardashian, profited from. “It was the first one, then everyone followed suit with intentional ones,” said Anderson, who has a new book out called Raw. “We never did it intentionally.”
Anderson, who recently ended her second marriage to Rick Salomon (her engagement ring is up for auction), talked a little more about her high-profile romance with the M?tley Crüe rocker, whom she married just days after they were introduced. Apparently he was jealous of Pam’s Baywatch co-star David Chokachi.
“He was a little bit flirtatious [and] got in trouble from Tommy,” she recalled of her TV love interest. “They had to change the script [because when] Tommy came to set, he smashed my trailer with his Testarossa because I kissed David Chokachi. So we had to pretend that David was gay. He still didn’t like it.”
Sex tapes, smashed up trailers, crashed Ferraris… Man, we really miss the glory days of Pam and Tommy.