Pam's interview with E Online
TV's new VIP on gettin' naked, bein' a drama queen--and (shhh!) her secret ache
by Luaine Lee
In case you had any doubts, Pamela Anderson Lee is a very important person.
It says as much on her new syndicated series, V.I.P. Lee is the star and exec producer of the show, in which she plays a reluctant bodyguard facing a series of unplanned twists and awkward scrapes.
Seems appropriate, considering Lee's own life. The blond bombshell was a fitness instructor in British Columbia when she was discovered at a football game by beer maker Labatt's. (She happened to be wearing one of their T-shirts at the time.)
Hawking brewski paved Pam's road to Hollywood, where she punched in as the Tool Time girl on Home Improvement and beautified the California coast on Baywatch.
But it was the five nude layouts and bestselling video for Playboy that ensured her massive, uh, fame. It was also just the kickoff of Lee's career as a bare-all starlet.
An allegedly stolen homemade X-rated video starring Pam and rocker-husband Tommy Lee set off a frenzy in Hollywood and a legal battle with an Internet company that sought to profit from the tape.
The couple left the courtroom in defeat, only to return a few months later--this time facing each other after Pam accused Tommy of kicking her while she was holding then seven-week-old Dylan. (He's now nine months; older brother Brandon is two.) The rocker was sentenced to six months in jail for spousal battery (he was released in August), and Pamela filed for divorce.
Now 31, she is hoping to get attention with more, well, conventional onscreen exploits. Will fans follow Pam into the V.I.P. area? Something tells us they just might.
How do you feel about everything that has happened with Tommy?
I've learned a lot. And in a way, it looks negative, but it's all positive. My husband has definitely learned a lot. And, you know, it's all going to be good in the future...I really believe in fate. I believe I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be every moment of every day.
Many women who are abused never have the courage to speak up. Why did you?
You have to do what you have to do. And I have two little children, and I'll do anything to make sure they're in a loving environment.
It seems motherhood has really affected you.
I don't take as much crap as I used to. You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that. I gave birth at home both times--natural--with a midwife, in water...with nothing.
No anesthesia? No doctor?
Nothing, not even Tylenol.
That was pretty brave.
Brave! Oh, I have huge balls. Yes I do. My brother says that.
And yet sometimes you seem almost shy.
My mom can't believe I was in Playboy, because growing up, I was very shy. I had a real strong imagination. I won awards for creative writing. There's the person who lives inside my head and the person I really am.
But how can a shy person bare it all for the world?
Playboy is really a different side of me that I didn't know was there. Some of my happiest times--and this seems kind of crazy--are doing photo shoots. I love them because I can be anybody I want in a split second. It's harder to maintain that over a television show or on film, but I can be 6 billion different people in a roll of film. I still don't like looking at the pictures, though.
Why not?
I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product. I'm starting to. I like my new show and watching dailies.But I've done things before where I couldn't watch the show.
What things?
Well, actually Tommy has never seen an episode of Baywatch. I wouldn't let anybody watch anything. My mom has seen them. That's a little different.
What kind of a kid were you?
Always in trouble. I was a drama queen right from a very young age.
What things did you do to get into trouble?
I put my brother in a barrel and told him not to come out until I told him to. Then I alerted the whole town that he was missing. The cops were there and the fire department. When they found him, he said, "I can't come out till Pam tells me to."
You really fell into acting. Do you like it? Is it something you'd always wanted to do?
I never knew this is what I wanted to do when I started. I was like...well, this is interesting, but I don't think I could ever be any good at this.
Has that changed?
I'm having fun on the show. I'm working with some great people and great writers. And it's such a combination of everybody. When you see somebody on television who you think is a good actor or actress, you don't realize that it's a combination of so many things.
It's not just them. It's the writers, the editors, the people in production. I have such a great group around me right now that I have a lot more confidence in that department. And I'm loving it.
How does it feel to be the star, actually the real VIP of your own show?
I never realized that being with a studio was so...it's like being married. It's so sweet. They're so worried about me. I think people are kind of drawn to me because I'm very honest about myself and my personal life. I just think they're always worried that I'm actually going to say something about my life.
I'm not going to go on and on about my personal life, but I think I've been a very strong person, and I think I've gone through a lot of things a lot of other people have. I don't think I'm any different from anybody else. But life has lots of challenges, and you always come out of them. So, I think I'm a good example of that.
You've had some rough patches. Which was the roughest?
Lately, with my husband--that was very, very unexplainable. But it's another thing I know we'll get through. It's very hard.
Is there something you want to do that you haven't done?
I played saxophone for seven years in school, and there's a musical side of me that's aching to come out. I sang all through school. I sang all the solos and sang in a jazz choir until one stupid boyfriend told me I couldn't sing. And I didn't sing or dance anymore after that.
I think it was just a controlling thing. But I'm just aching every day to do it, and I think someday I will. My brother's a musician, and I've been saying we should go into a recording studio and record something. But I still have that mental block.
Who has most inspired you in your life?
I didn't realize the impact that my relationship with my grandfather had on my life until much later. He's not around anymore. He passed away when I was 11. But he taught me all the principles of how I run my life.
He was a very spiritual person. He taught me how to meditate, and he always said I wasn't an extension of anybody else or the town I lived in. He said I had a new life to do whatever I want with and to be a good person and to just take opportunities as they come and go, with the flow, day by day.
This Interview was taken From Eonline.com
by Luaine Lee
In case you had any doubts, Pamela Anderson Lee is a very important person.
It says as much on her new syndicated series, V.I.P. Lee is the star and exec producer of the show, in which she plays a reluctant bodyguard facing a series of unplanned twists and awkward scrapes.
Seems appropriate, considering Lee's own life. The blond bombshell was a fitness instructor in British Columbia when she was discovered at a football game by beer maker Labatt's. (She happened to be wearing one of their T-shirts at the time.)
Hawking brewski paved Pam's road to Hollywood, where she punched in as the Tool Time girl on Home Improvement and beautified the California coast on Baywatch.
But it was the five nude layouts and bestselling video for Playboy that ensured her massive, uh, fame. It was also just the kickoff of Lee's career as a bare-all starlet.
An allegedly stolen homemade X-rated video starring Pam and rocker-husband Tommy Lee set off a frenzy in Hollywood and a legal battle with an Internet company that sought to profit from the tape.
The couple left the courtroom in defeat, only to return a few months later--this time facing each other after Pam accused Tommy of kicking her while she was holding then seven-week-old Dylan. (He's now nine months; older brother Brandon is two.) The rocker was sentenced to six months in jail for spousal battery (he was released in August), and Pamela filed for divorce.
Now 31, she is hoping to get attention with more, well, conventional onscreen exploits. Will fans follow Pam into the V.I.P. area? Something tells us they just might.
How do you feel about everything that has happened with Tommy?
I've learned a lot. And in a way, it looks negative, but it's all positive. My husband has definitely learned a lot. And, you know, it's all going to be good in the future...I really believe in fate. I believe I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be every moment of every day.
Many women who are abused never have the courage to speak up. Why did you?
You have to do what you have to do. And I have two little children, and I'll do anything to make sure they're in a loving environment.
It seems motherhood has really affected you.
I don't take as much crap as I used to. You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that. I gave birth at home both times--natural--with a midwife, in water...with nothing.
No anesthesia? No doctor?
Nothing, not even Tylenol.
That was pretty brave.
Brave! Oh, I have huge balls. Yes I do. My brother says that.
And yet sometimes you seem almost shy.
My mom can't believe I was in Playboy, because growing up, I was very shy. I had a real strong imagination. I won awards for creative writing. There's the person who lives inside my head and the person I really am.
But how can a shy person bare it all for the world?
Playboy is really a different side of me that I didn't know was there. Some of my happiest times--and this seems kind of crazy--are doing photo shoots. I love them because I can be anybody I want in a split second. It's harder to maintain that over a television show or on film, but I can be 6 billion different people in a roll of film. I still don't like looking at the pictures, though.
Why not?
I love doing what I do, but I don't like seeing the finished product. I'm starting to. I like my new show and watching dailies.But I've done things before where I couldn't watch the show.
What things?
Well, actually Tommy has never seen an episode of Baywatch. I wouldn't let anybody watch anything. My mom has seen them. That's a little different.
What kind of a kid were you?
Always in trouble. I was a drama queen right from a very young age.
What things did you do to get into trouble?
I put my brother in a barrel and told him not to come out until I told him to. Then I alerted the whole town that he was missing. The cops were there and the fire department. When they found him, he said, "I can't come out till Pam tells me to."
You really fell into acting. Do you like it? Is it something you'd always wanted to do?
I never knew this is what I wanted to do when I started. I was like...well, this is interesting, but I don't think I could ever be any good at this.
Has that changed?
I'm having fun on the show. I'm working with some great people and great writers. And it's such a combination of everybody. When you see somebody on television who you think is a good actor or actress, you don't realize that it's a combination of so many things.
It's not just them. It's the writers, the editors, the people in production. I have such a great group around me right now that I have a lot more confidence in that department. And I'm loving it.
How does it feel to be the star, actually the real VIP of your own show?
I never realized that being with a studio was so...it's like being married. It's so sweet. They're so worried about me. I think people are kind of drawn to me because I'm very honest about myself and my personal life. I just think they're always worried that I'm actually going to say something about my life.
I'm not going to go on and on about my personal life, but I think I've been a very strong person, and I think I've gone through a lot of things a lot of other people have. I don't think I'm any different from anybody else. But life has lots of challenges, and you always come out of them. So, I think I'm a good example of that.
You've had some rough patches. Which was the roughest?
Lately, with my husband--that was very, very unexplainable. But it's another thing I know we'll get through. It's very hard.
Is there something you want to do that you haven't done?
I played saxophone for seven years in school, and there's a musical side of me that's aching to come out. I sang all through school. I sang all the solos and sang in a jazz choir until one stupid boyfriend told me I couldn't sing. And I didn't sing or dance anymore after that.
I think it was just a controlling thing. But I'm just aching every day to do it, and I think someday I will. My brother's a musician, and I've been saying we should go into a recording studio and record something. But I still have that mental block.
Who has most inspired you in your life?
I didn't realize the impact that my relationship with my grandfather had on my life until much later. He's not around anymore. He passed away when I was 11. But he taught me all the principles of how I run my life.
He was a very spiritual person. He taught me how to meditate, and he always said I wasn't an extension of anybody else or the town I lived in. He said I had a new life to do whatever I want with and to be a good person and to just take opportunities as they come and go, with the flow, day by day.
This Interview was taken From Eonline.com
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