Pamela Anderson is revealing how her now-adult sons were exposed to uncomfortable aspects of her wild life in a new interview.
The 57-year-old Baywatch star shared in her new Better Homes & Gardens’ Stylemaker Issue cover story that her sons Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee — whom she shares with her ex-husband Tommy Lee — learned a mix of family friendly and ‘not age-appropriate’ details about her exploits as they were growing up.
However, she admitted she wasn’t as concerned about the public oversharing now, as Brandon, 27, and Dylan, 26, are both mature enough to ‘understand the big picture.’
The Stylemaker Issue featuring Pamela Anderson hits newsstands on Friday, August 23 and the cover story is available online here.
As children, the boys learned of their mother’s infamous sex tape with their rocker father, which was stolen and then distributed without her consent. Although she and Tommy eventually won multiple lawsuits related to the distribution of the tape, she has claimed that she never saw a dime from its massive sales.
Pamela Anderson is revealing how her now-adult sons Brandon Thomas Lee (L) and Dylan Jagger Lee (R) were exposed to uncomfortable aspects of her wild life in a new Better Homes & Gardens cover story; pictured in September in NYC
The 57-year-old Baywatch star said Brandon, 27, and Dylan, 26, learned a mix of family friendly and ‘not age-appropriate’ details about her exploits as they were growing up; seen in a publicity still for Baywatch
Pamela spoke about how her sons reacted to the more risqué details of her life after the interviewer noted the family’s closeness.
Brandon would have also learned particularly intimate details about his mother after serving as a producer on her Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story, which was released in 2023.
‘My kids are old enough now to understand the big picture,’ the actress stated. ‘They look at me and say, “Mom, this is your time.”
‘Of course, over the years, as they learned about things in my past, both age-appropriate and not age-appropriate, unfortunately, they thought I was taken advantage of in some ways,’ she admitted.
But that conclusion only prompted Brandon and Dylan to support her more.
‘They told me, “Whatever you’ve created by being you, just keep being you. We’re going to try and find ways for you to keep doing what you love but also sharing it with people in a way where it benefits you too. You can create a life. You can keep writing. You can keep doing all the things you love,”‘ she recalled them saying.
The iconic blonde also praised her sons as ‘young, bold, hardworking men.’
‘They’re ambitious, they’re talented, they’re creative, they’re gentlemen, and they’re good cooks,’ she gushed lovingly.
Anderson’s interview was timed to promote her upcoming cookbook, I Love You, which will hit shelves in October.
She admitted that the project was initially much more intimate, as she began working on the recipes as a ‘housewarming gift’ for Brandon and Dylan, who had gone in together on buying a house that they would live in with their girlfriends.
Pamela shared glimpses of her home in Canada and her newfound love for garden in Better Homes & Gardens’ Stylemaker Issues, on newstands Friday, August 23
Although Pam worried about her kids learning about her X-rated exploits, she said they were ‘old enough now to understand the big picture,’ the actress stated
‘I remember my mom used to have these recipe cards in a box. I decided I had to find the ultimate recipe card box,’ she recalled.
Although she focused on recipes that had been passed down with her family, she gave them some modern, healthy updates by making the ‘North and Eastern European’ foods ‘plant-based.’
‘These are things I love; these are my comfort foods,’ she added enthusiastically.
However, her business-minded son Brandon realized that she had enough material to make a publishable book, and the renewed public interest in her life coinciding with the release of her documentary, memoir and the miniseries Pam & Tommy — which Anderson was not involved with and has publicly derided — made it seem like a logical next step.
She explained that the unusual title, I Love You, was arrived at because she had ‘engraved’ the words on the box of recipes that she presented to her sons.
While speaking about her sons, she shared that she encourages them to think of the ‘challenges’ they encounter as ‘the poetry of your life.’
‘You wouldn’t know hot if you didn’t know cold. You wouldn’t have appreciation for the good times without going through the hard times. It’s all a roller coaster,’ she said.
Elsewhere in her interview, Pamela spoke about her cooking exploits, including her unusually named sourdough starter, which she dubbed ‘Vixen.’
She revealed that she developed an interest in baking as a form of ‘meditation.’
The interest in baking seemed to be one of Pamela’s changes instituted after she moved back from the US to her native Canada (though she gained naturalized US citizenship in 2004).
The Barb Wire actress admitted she was ‘not in a good place’ when she moved back north.
Brandon (pictured in March in West Hollywood) and Dylan both supported their mother and tried to find ways for her to monetize her life to make up for ways they thought she had been ‘exploited’
The actress shared in her cover story that her new cookbook, titled I Love You, originated as a box of recipes for her sons after they bought a house together to live in with their girlfriends; pictured May 6 at the Met Gala in Manhattan
She admitted to feeling ‘very sad and lonely,’ and she felt like a completely different person than the image of herself that was known to the public.
She was also dealing with overwhelming regrets after feeling as if she had ‘really screwed up’ and lived a life that was little more than a ‘bundle of mistakes.’
But things started to look up after she moved to Canada and discovered a hidden passion for gardening.
Pamela said she came to think of her time in the garden as a ‘metaphor of putting my life back together,’ and she found the process of coaxing new life out of the soil to be ‘really profound.’
