IT is the crazy drama Pamela Anderson refused to be a part of – and it is easy to see why she says will not even watch this steamy look-back at her life.
Pam & Tommy, which is coming to Disney+ next week, is so bizarre, it manages to eclipse the real-life antics of the Baywatch babe and her first husband, Motley Crue’s wildman drummer Tommy Lee.
He had already been married once when he met Pamela at the height of her fame in the mid-Nineties — and had previously bedded her Baywatch co-star Carmen Electra.
In the series, Pamela, who is played by Brit Lily James, 32, is seen being attracted by her new lover’s physical attributes.
Tommy, played by Marvel’s Sebastian Stan, 39, asks, “Would you like to meet him?”, before dropping his underwear to reveal how well-endowed he is.
Pamela gasps and says: “He’s beautiful.”
His member then becomes a large part of the drama, and in one scene, he even talks to it, asking it: “Am I in love? I think she’s the one. She’s f***ing perfect!”
“And, of course, his penis responds, saying: “You’ve just got a divorce.” But Tommy replies: “No, she’s the one.”
He then launches a charm offensive on Pamela, singing the lyrics to the song Getting To know You, from movie musical The King And I, while waltzing with her.
‘I’m done with bad boys’ And it is all interspersed with scenes to them snorting coke, necking oceans of champagne and having endless sex — everywhere from the bath to a boat.
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The rocker continues to woo her with seductive prose, saying: “Pamela, you by far the baddest, raddest, sexiest, most far out, most kickass chick I’ve ever met. Next to you, Carmen Electra is a hag.”
Then he finally pops the question with near-Shakespearean elegance, saying: “I could think of nothing that I would rather do than spend the rest of my life just loving the s**t out of you. Would you do me the insane honour of being my wife?”
Pamela, 54, who wanted nothing to do with the creation of the drama, has since confirmed she, “Wouldn’t be watching it”.
Actress Lily said she was disappointed, adding: “I was really hopeful that she would be involved. “I wish it had been different. My sole intention was to take care of the story and to play Pamela authentically.”
In real life, Pamela and Tommy married on a Mexican beach — with Pamela wearing just a bikini — after only knowing each other four days. After that they continued to live a life of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll at Tommy’s home in Malibu — until a sex tape they made was famously leaked.
The biopic kicks off with the build-up to that scandal, with an episode called Drilling And Pounding. It shows how electrician Rand Gauthier, played by Seth Rogen, 39, questions Tommy about whether he can afford to pay for the waterbed, luxurious shower and sex swing he is installing.
SEX SWING
In reply, Tommy pins him against a wall and says: “Cost? I don’t care about cost. I sold ten million f***ing albums. You think I’m not good for it? I can’t afford a waterbed? What you saying, b**ch?”
After firing him for allegedly looking at his Pamela, he chases him off the property with a gun.
So Rand is seen plotting to recoup his losses by taking their sex tape and selling thousands of copies.
Pamela and Tommy made expensive court bids to stop its release, but once it made its way on to the newly emerging internet, there was little anyone could do to stop its spread.
Elsewhere in the episodes, Pamela is seen chatting with her female friends saying: “You know what, I’m done with bad boys, I want a nice, sweet, regular guy — a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant.
“Someone who will stay home and cook dinner. These actors and rock stars are so not worth it. I’m done with self-obsessed and high-maintenance. Bad boys out, good boys in.”
There are also hilarious moments, such as when Pamela is seen refusing sex with Tommy because she wants to practise a monologue she has to deliver the next day on the set of Baywatch.
But her words are then taken out and replaced with a long line of shots of her bum. The couple’s marriage was tumultuous, but the sex tape leak put a huge strain on their relationship.
In the series, Pamela claims the video does far more damage to her as a woman, than it does to Tommy as a man.
SEX TAPE LEAK
She says: “You don’t seem to understand what a big deal this is to me. This is worse for me, this is way worse for me.
He replies: “Like it’s not a big deal to me? I’m on that tape the same as you. How is this worse for you? Why? Because of your big career that’s so much bigger than mine?”
Pam says: “It’s not because of my big career, it’s because I’m a woman! Listen to me, OK, people are going to think you’re cool for this.
“They’ll be high-fiving you in the street. Me, I’m going to get looked at like a slut by the whole world. It’s true, you never have to deal with this stuff.”
The couple, who had sons Brandon in 1996 and Dylan in 1997, eventually divorced in 1998.
A year after, Pamela also quit Baywatch to launch an ill-fated movie career.
Pamela went on to marry five more times, to Kid Rock in 2006, Rick Salomon in 2007 and again in 2014, Jon Peters in 2020 and Dan Hayhurst later that same year.
She announced this week that her most recent marriage has just come to an end.
Tommy, 59, did not remarry for another 21 years before tying the knot with internet star Brittany Furlan, who is 34 years his junior.
He never felt the same kind of shame over the sex tape. And after reality star Kim Kardashian had a sex tape leak years later, he allegedly boasted: “Let the motherf***ers know, we broke the internet first.
- The first three episodes of Pam & Tommy will be released on Disney+ from February 2.
