Earlier last month, Pamela Anderson stood in her kitchen while her mother criticized her and thought: “You should have had the abortion.” She didn’t say it out loud, “but in my head”. “Because since I was born, it’s been my fault — that’s why she married my father. So I’ve always had that on my shoulders, where I felt responsible for everything that went wrong.”
She suspects her mother feels the same way about her. “I do, actually. I don’t think it’s conscious. But I think subconsciously, in her mind, she has the idea of a different life that she could have led if she hadn’t gotten pregnant at that age. It was a shotgun wedding. And I felt responsible, even when I was little. That’s why I’m happy about writing this book, because I just feel, like, we forget that people have stories. And we don’t know where they come from, or what they’ve gone through, and then we’re quick to judge people too.”
