Pamela Anderson defends her controversial #MeToo comments: 'It takes two to tango’

Pamela Anderson: Actor and model Pamela Anderson has defended her past comments on MeToo that she made in 2017. She had then said that women need to protect themselves more, triggering a controversy. “You know what you’re getting into when you go to a hotel room alone,” she had said in the interview.

Opening up on the subject, Pamela told an online  magazine, “I could even take it a step further.”

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‘Been in many situations’

The Baywatch actor said in the recent interview, “My mother would tell me — and I think this is the kind of feminism I grew up with — it takes two to tango. Believe me, I’ve been in many situations where it’s like, ‘Come in here little girl, sit on the bed.’ But my mom would say, ‘If someone answers the door in a hotel robe and you’re going for an interview, don’t go in. But if you do go in, get the job.’”

She continued, “That’s a horrible thing to say but that’s how I was. I skated on the edges of destruction. I just had this sense of value and self-worth. But I think a lot of people don’t have that or they weren’t taught that. Thank God for the #MeToo movement because things have changed and people are much more careful and respectful.”

Pamela also spoke about her stint with Playboy and criticism she received. She said she wasn’t thinking “Oh, these men are sexist.” She clarified that at that time, she was thinking, “’Oh, my gosh, I’m here in this industry, this is how it works. I was in Playboy, so maybe I deserve it.’ I was coming from a much more innocent place.”

Strong sense of self

“I wasn’t stupid — naive maybe — but I had a pretty strong sense of self. I always felt that when I was older, I would recognize myself, that I just had to get through that time,” she added. “I didn’t know that I was going to do anything more than Playboy. I didn’t know if I was going to go back home and be a waitress. So when people say, ‘How did you choose this job?’ Or, ‘How did you choose this man?’ It’s like, they chose me. I was just living every day and trying to survive.”

She said that the founder of Playboy magazine Hugh Hefner is the only person to ever treat her with “complete and utter respect.” She also said the reason for doing her first Playboy cover was because, “I was painfully shy, and I hated that feeling. That’s why I did it. I just didn’t want that feeling anymore. 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.”

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