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Pamela Anderson has defended her friendship with WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange, calling him a “seeker of the truth” and “brave”.
The 55-year-old actress met Assange in 2014 through fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, who recently passed away at the age of 81.
In his memoir bombshell ‘Love Pamela’, which was published today, he admitted to having ‘playful nights’ with Assange while hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy. She also regularly visited him at the London embassy, where Assange had sought political asylum to avoid extradition to the United States.
Assange is facing 175 years in prison on espionage charges in the US after he released thousands of classified documents implicating the US military between 2010 and 2011.
When asked about Magazine Interview if he thought of Assange as a reporter, he would reply: ‘I think he is a journalist. Also people close to me – Srećko Horvat, [Slavoj] Zizek, Yanis Varoufakis, Noam Chomsky.
“I felt like my connection to Julian was human,” she continued. “We had a close connection and even he said that I was the only person he trusted.
Pamela Anderson has defended her friendship with WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange, calling him a “seeker of the truth” and “brave”. She said: ‘I felt like my connection to Julian was human. We had a close connection and he even said that I was the only person he trusted.
Assange faces 175 years in prison on espionage charges in the US after releasing thousands of classified documents involving the US military between 2010 and 2011.
“I think it has been shown that he has not put anyone in danger. His job was to publish what came to him without prejudice. His intention was to expose all of that information so that everyone could choose instead of just watching CNN or Fox News.
In his previous book, Raw, he included a poem using Assange’s name, although the pair did not know each other at the time. She said that she added her name because she is a “radical thinker, a seeker of truth, and an authentic and courageous person.”
“So his name just came up,” he told the magazine.
The Baywatch star is now focusing her activism on press freedom, recalling that she “got a lot of attention for very superficial things” in her career.
‘I thought, ‘What can I share to make this care more meaningful?’ That’s where it started, my activism career,” she told the magazine. “I was learning about animal testing, so I helped create animal welfare laws where there weren’t any. I was talking to world leaders all of a sudden. He was talking to people most people couldn’t get to.
She talks about their friendship in her new memoir Love, Pamela, out today.
‘Plus, I had Hugh Hefner. He was a great defender of freedom of expression and freedom of the press and human rights. He just morphed all together.
In August 2014, Westwood introduced the couple when Pamela asked him for advice on her fledgling animal charity.
Speaking to the Mail On Sunday shortly after the meeting, the fashion designer explained the meeting of minds.
She was supposed to take Pamela Anderson to see Julian at the embassy, but she got the wrong date, so she left alone the next day.
Later he told me that they got along very well.
“Julian was just brilliant… Pamela is trying to help people with her new trust and he gave her some ideas on how to do it.”
The couple became close friends, leading to speculation that they might be in a romantic relationship.
However, in 2018 he dispelled the rumors that they were romantically involved.
The bombshell also recalled Assange’s mother telling him to stop posting ‘sexy photos’ in order to be ‘taken more seriously as an activist’.
Pamela met the WikiLeaks creator in August 2014 when she asked him for advice on her fledgling animal charity.
He also said he considers Assange a ‘journalist’, saying: ‘I think it has been proven that he has not put anyone in danger. Her job was to publish what came to her without prejudice.
‘And I thought: ‘What have we been fighting for?’ Why can’t we be sexy and smart?’ she told Interview magazine. ‘Why can’t I be a nun and showgirl?’
The mother-of-two also spoke candidly about being judged for her sexy appearance on the carpool line at her kids’ school, saying: “I really wanted to be a mom and I wanted to be there for them.” Driving the kids to school, she’d see my reflection and be like, “Oh my gosh, I have glitter and mascara on my cheeks and people are judging me.” But I’m judging their cars with peanut butter sandwiches stuck to the floor. We were all a mess.
Now, the Canadian has secluded herself in her native country and shed her makeup and glamor for a ‘little ranch with my dogs’.
‘I don’t wear makeup. I just wake up and put on a slipper and my rain boots and walk across the field and wade into the ocean. I feel like I went back to the girl who lived here before,” she said.
“Sometimes I say I’m sorry and other times I don’t. I’m happy my kids turned out great and like I said I’m not looking for respect or to be taken seriously. I just hope to inspire people who have been through traumatic times to try making lemonade out of lemons. That’s a great expression.