Pamela Anderson and her son Brandon Lee claim they never saw a penny of the sex tape with Tommy Lee

Pamela Anderson’s privacy was invaded when a sex tape she made with then-husband Tommy Lee was stolen and distributed without her consent in the 1990s.

And now, the 55-year-old actress and icon has reiterated her claims that she and her ex never saw money from the widely circulated sex tape.

While chatting with her and Tommy’s son, Brandon Lee, 26, at a New York City screening of the new Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story, she said people have refused to believe that there could never have been been compensated by the tape despite its popularity. .

“I don’t think anybody wanted to believe it,” he said in an interview, according to indiewire. ‘Besides, we just let it slide.’

According to the actress, she and Tommy decided that it was in the best interest of their physical and mental health to forego fair compensation.

“After the bowel movements and all this craziness, and I was pregnant with Dylan, we didn’t want to put any more stress on the baby. Tommy and I just said, “Fuck ’em, karma, whatever,” we just left it. We really try to put it in the past.

“So we didn’t do a press tour to talk about the money we didn’t get. That was just dirty money. We didn’t want it. And we ended up good,’ she said.

Pam’s claim that she never received any payment is surprising, considering that she and Tommy were victorious in multiple lawsuits over the sex tape.

However, the dealer may never have paid even though the couple was ordered to pay, since it went out of business.

The tape was stolen in 1995 by Rand Gauthier, an electrician who had worked on the couple’s home. After Tommy refused to pay him for the work he had done, he stole a huge safe from his garage.

It was only after she had a chance to review the content that she learned that the sex tape footage had been locked away in the safe.

The tape was later obtained by Seth Warshavsky, who initially streamed the video online, before attempting to set up a distribution deal with Pamela and Tommy.

The couple eventually signed the agreement to reduce their stress from the lawsuits, but the settlement, which Pam supposedly thought would limit online distribution, ended up being much broader than she thought.

Revenge: In 1995, a disgruntled electrician stole Pamela and Tommy’s sex tape after Tommy allegedly refused to pay him for work he did on his house; seen in 1996

Quit: After it was distributed online, the frustrated couple gave up legal recourse and signed an agreement they thought would limit it to online-only distribution; seen in 1996

Left Out: But the deal was so sweeping that the tape was licensed and sold to adult video stores, raking in hundreds of millions, none of which Pamela or Tommy ever saw; Still from Pam & Tommy

With the agreement signed, Warshavsky then licensed the video to a video company to print physical copies for sale in adult stores.

Sales of the tape reportedly brought in hundreds of millions of dollars, but none of that money was coming back to Pam and Tommy.

According entertainment weekly, the pair then filed a copyright lawsuit for the physical distribution. Since they had made the film together, and not just starred in it, they were considered the copyright holders.

The couple was eventually awarded $740,000 each in a lawsuit against Warshavsky, but reportedly never paid either of them.

During the conversation, Pamela admitted that she allowed the documentary, which is directed by Ryan White, to be made as a way to help her understand herself and her extraordinary life.

‘I just think, why not? We are all different, let’s try to dig into those feelings that no one else has, ”she said of the decision to continue.

‘We all have a purpose, and if we can find our unique forward-thinking ideas, that’s where all the good and interesting things are. So I thought, “If someone else can do it, I can do it.” And I still don’t know what I’m capable of. I just want to push myself to the limit. I don’t know what my purpose is, I just have fun doing it and trying all the things. I think it’s a survival mechanism: trying to have a good time, even if things are hard.’

Stiffness: Pamela and Tommy eventually won lawsuits against the dealer, but were allegedly never paid despite winning the lawsuits; seen on wednesday

Public Service: Brandon (R) said he wanted the film, which he produced, to help humanize his larger-than-life mother; seen with father Tommy (L) and brother Dylan (Center)

Brandon said he hoped the documentary would help humanize his larger-than-life mother to his viewers.

‘My whole goal with this was to give everyone a glimpse of what I got to see every day when I got home from school. Every day at my soccer practices, being a dedicated mom, and just a caring human being, trying to live this normal life within a world that didn’t really understand her,” she said. “The way she was treated was unacceptable, and we should all be ashamed of ourselves for being a part of that.”

Pamela apparently stayed out of the making of the film, but Brandon, who is a producer on the documentary, was conflicted about how much control she should cede to the director.

“There were definitely times where I thought, ‘Am I going to be able to keep a level head as a producer on this project and want to do what’s best for the movie?’ I constantly fought that with a lot of things that were in the movie about my family,” he said.

“You’re seeing your life piece together backwards, and I don’t think a lot of people can do that, I’m seeing a lot of things that happened with my family in the public eye that I remember certain instances from when I was a kid… but the rest of the world he knew the full story and I didn’t. A lot of this for me was just catching up, so it was very emotional.

It’s hard to take a step back: Brandon admitted he had trouble giving the director creative control; seen with Pamela and Dylan on January 30