Pamela Anderson doubles down on controversial comments she made at the height of the #MeToo movement.
In November 2017, the former Playboy Playmate – who admitted she had a “scary” encounter with a film producer-turned-Convicted serial rapist Harvey Weinstein – Tell Megyn Kelly During the Today Show interview, “You know what you’d get into if you went into a hotel room alone.”
When Ronan Farrow asked him about interview magazine Asked if she felt this was a “healthy idea to bring into the conversation at that point,” Anderson, 55, responded to the post Wednesday, “I could even take it a step further.”
Pamela Anderson has doubled down on her controversial comments about the #MeToo movement.
Pamela Anderson has doubled down on her controversial comments about the #MeToo movement.
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Pamela Anderson has doubled down on her controversial comments about the #MeToo movement.
Pamela Anderson has doubled down on her controversial comments about the #MeToo movement.
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“My mom used to tell me — and I think that’s the kind of feminist I grew up with — it takes two people to tango,” said the actress and model Farrow, 35, adding that her mom also used to advise, “If somebody’s answering the door in a hotel gown and you’re going for an interview… Don’t get in. But if you get in, get the job.”
Although the “Baywatch” star quickly admitted that was a “terrible thing to say,” she noted that she “had this sense of worth and self-worth.”
“You know what you’re getting into if you go to a hotel room by yourself,” she told Megyn Kelly in December 2017.
“You know what you’re getting into if you go to a hotel room by yourself,” she told Megyn Kelly in December 2017.
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“But I think a lot of people don’t have that or they just haven’t been taught that,” she continued. “We thank God for the #MeToo movement because things have changed and people are more careful and respectful.”
Anderson – who Survived child sexual abuse — she told Kelly, 52, during their 2017 sitdown that she’d “learned to never give up.” [herself] in these positions again.”
“When I came to Hollywood, of course I had a lot of offers to do private auditions and things that made absolutely no sense,” the ’90s sex symbol explained at the time. “[It’s] Just common sense: Don’t go into a hotel room alone. If someone answers the door in a bathrobe, leave.
During a televised chat, the “Love Pamela” The author claimed that it is “known” to avoid “certain people” in the entertainment industry.
“You know what you’re getting into if you go into a hotel room alone,” she insisted, prompting Kelly to warn that many of the actresses’ agents are the ones organizing those meetings.
“I’ll go with them! Send someone with them. That’s what they should have done,” Anderson replied. “I just think there are easy ways to remedy that. That’s not a good excuse.”