Pamela Anderson has spoken out about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her nanny in her new Netflix documentary, Pamela: A Love Story.
The Canada native said she then tried to kill the woman by stabbing her in the heart, but that she was killed in a car accident a day later.
Young Pamela was so convinced that she had caused the death with her own magical powers that she told no one and took the blame for years.
In a heartbreaking account, the television star and model, now 55, said: “Some horrible things happened to me when I was little.”
‘I had a babysitter and my parents thought she was a great babysitter because she brought presents all the time, but she was abusing me.
‘I thought I killed her with my magical mind’: Pamela Anderson ‘believed’ she caused the death of the nanny who abused her
She said in her Netflix documentary: ‘I tried to stab her through the heart with a candy cane pen. And then I told her that I wanted her to die and then she died in a car accident the next day. So I thought she had killed her with my magical mind and I couldn’t tell anyone’ (Pictured: a young Pamela)
“There were three or four years of abuse. She always told me not to tell my parents. I tried to protect my brother from her. I tried to kill her.
‘I tried to stab her through the heart with a candy cane pen. And then I told her that she wanted him to die and then she died in a car accident the next day.
‘So I thought I had killed her with my magical mind and I couldn’t tell anyone. But I was sure that I did, that I wished her dead and she died.
“I lived with it my whole life really young.”
She continued: ‘When those traumatic moments happened, I would just leave my body and float and create my own little world.
“I was digging a hole in China, thinking ‘I hate this, I hate this, I want to get out of here.’ I just thought I had to get off the island.
‘As I got older, I was like a little tomboy. I was a gymnast, so I was small. I bloomed very late, then I got a lump in my breast and I spent a long time rehearsing how to tell my mom that I was dying of cancer.
Because I thought it was cancer and I was trying to push it back into my chest. And then when I finally told him, he laughed and said, “Oh, you’re turning into a woman.”
Family: Mrs. Anderson with ex-husband Tommy Lee (pictured together in 1996). Her son Brandon was a producer on the new documentary.
Supporting her: Brandon has claimed his mother was criminally underpaid during her time on ’90s pop culture staple Baywatch
Ms Anderson’s eldest son, Brandon Thomas Lee, 26, from her marriage to rocker Tommy Lee, 60, was a producer on the Netflix documentary.
He claimed that his mother was criminally underpaid during her time on ’90s pop culture staple Baywatch, because she only makes $4,000 a year off the scrap.
“When I go back and even look at past offers and residual checks, people would be shocked to find out how people actually took advantage of it,” he said. Extra at the Netflix Tudum Theater in Hollywood, at the premiere of the documentary.
He described his mother, who played the role of CJ Parker in 110 episodes of the syndicated series from 1992 to 1997, as “a kid who did a bad deal on a big show and was the biggest star at the time.”
Lee continued: “A lot of people made a lot of money from it, people are going to have to have their day when we knock on the door… when I make $4,000 a year from Baywatch? That’s a crime.
Ms. Anderson was a breakout star in the cast of the beach-based series, which also featured David Hasselhoff, Yasmine Bleeth, David Charvet, Gena Lee Nolin, Nicole Eggert, Donna D’Errico and, in its later years, Jason Momoa.
The $4,000 APR pales in comparison to many of Ms. Anderson’s contemporaries who appeared on hit shows that later went into syndication, according to yahoo.
The six main cast members of Friends (Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc) earn $20 million a year from a deal that gave them 2 percent each of their residuals. , according to a 2015 report. USA Today report.
Brandon Lee said: ‘A lot of people made a lot of money from it, people are going to have their day when we knock on the door… when I make $4,000 a year with Baywatch? that’s a crime’