As her new tell-all Netflix documentary ‘Pamela, a Love Story’ launched on Tuesday (January 31), Pamela Anderson opened up about her relationship with the late Playboy supremo Hugh Hefner.
The former Baywatch beauty, 55, first appeared on the cover of the Hefner’s adult magazine in 1989, aged 22.
She went on to star there on 13 further occasions as she became a household name in the early 1990s, largely thanks to her portrayal of C. J. Parker in the cult television lifeguard drama.
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In an interview with Sunday Times, Pam was asked if anyone had ever “treated her with complete and utter respect” over the course of her life and career, to which she paused to think before responding: “Hugh Hefner.”
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She went on to recall the moment Hefner first telephoned her, offering to fly her to Los Angeles for that debut shoot.
“I was painfully shy and I hated that feeling. That’s why I did it. I just didn’t want that feeling any more. Doing that first photoshoot gave me this little kind of portal on what it felt like to be a sensual woman. My sexuality was mine. I took my power back,” she explained candidly.
And in another discussion with PEOPLE, actress and model Pamela revealed: “I needed to take my power back as a sexual being, as a woman. I remember looking at the pictures, thinking I still didn’t like them but they’re okay. And then I thought, ‘Well, I really flipped the script’.”
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Pamela paid a glowing tribute to Hefner on Instagram following his death in 2017 aged 91.
In a now-deleted post, she penned: “I am me because of you. You taught me everything important about freedom and respect. Outside of my family. You were the most important person in my life. You gave me life.”
Also in the documentary Pamela revealed that prior to Hefner’s call she had harboured hopes of being surrounded by books and becoming a librarian – before her life took the “different direction”.
But she did go on to defy her critics in the book world by writing her newly-released ‘Love, Pamela’ memoir – without hiring a ghostwriter.
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