Pamela Anderson doubled down on her recent claims that Tim Allen showed her on the set of Home Improvement in 1991, after he vehemently denied it happened.
The Baywatch Star, 55, sat down for an interview with Canada Eastern Timeand shared why he believed Allen was quick to deny the alleged encounter.
‘He has to deny it because he looks at the times we are in. If he said, ‘Oh yeah, I did that…’ he would be, a lot of these stories are just the tip of the iceberg,’ he shared. .
Anderson previously accused Allen of showing him his genitals more than 30 years ago, in his new memoir Love, Pamela.
“I would never do such a thing,” said Allen, 69, Variety in his response, saying that the incident Anderson described “never happened.” He also told DailyMail.com that he was “disappointed” in Anderson after his claims.
Latest: Pamela Anderson doubled down on her recent claims that Tim Allen showed her on the set of Home Improvement in 1991, after he vehemently denied it happened.
“He has to deny it because look at the times we’re in. If he said, ‘Oh yeah, I did that…’ it would be, a lot of these stories are just the tip of the iceberg,” she said. in an interview with ET Canada
She also explained why she decided to include the story in her memoir: “Because it was my first job, Home Improvement, that I felt was important to say.”
The blonde bombshell also revealed what happened after the alleged flashing took place: “He ran back to his room and then was embarrassed all day and acting like a groggy school kid.”
You can’t make those things up. How could you make that up? she asked herself, after retelling the story to her.
Meanwhile, Allen told DailyMail.com of Anderson: “She was a great co-worker, I’ll tell you that.” She is a fun girl. Everyone loved her, but everyone at ABC is a little disappointed in hers…memory of her, let’s put it that way. All of us at Disney/ABC, really.
He added: “She’s a good girl.” The actor They asked him before leaving if he had a good memory, to which he nodded stoically and replied: ‘Yes’.
Pamela first shared the story in an excerpt from her memoir, obtained and published by the outlet, where she said the incident occurred on the set of Home Improvement in 1991 when she was 23 and he was 37.
“The first day of filming, I came out of my dressing room and Tim was in the hallway in his robe,” said Anderson, who played Lisa on the ABC sitcom, which starred Allen as Tim Taylor.
She continued: “She opened her robe and quickly showed me, completely naked underneath.”
Awkward: The actress revealed what happened after the alleged flashing: “He ran back to his room and then he was embarrassed all day and acting like a groggy school kid.”
Speaking his truth: ‘You can’t make those things up. How could you make that up? he asked her, after retelling the story of him.
Memories may vary: Anderson previously claimed that Allen flashed his genitals to her while on the set of Home Improvement in her new memoir Love, Pamela. She has issued a response to the allegation, insisting that it “never happened”.
Anderson, who had previously posed for Playboy magazine, went on to describe the circumstances of the encounter: “He said it was fair, because he had seen me naked. Now we are even. I laughed awkwardly.
Just days after denying the allegation, Allen was caught on camera showing off one of his other co-stars in uncovered footage.
A blooper from the hit ’90s sitcom shows Allen lifting his kilt in front of his on-screen wife, Patricia Richardson, who appears to laugh at the incident.
The video casts doubt on Allen’s statement that he would “never do such a thing” when Anderson accused him of also showing her on the set of Home Improvement.
However, Richardson has insisted that her co-star was “well dressed” under the kilt in the uncovered images and was wearing a pair of boxer shorts.
Interesting: Just days after denying the allegation, an unearthed blooper showed the moment Allen shows up showing off his co-star Patricia Richardson on the set of the ’90s sitcom.
Laughed: Richardson laughs off the incident in the clip, then insists his co-star was wearing boxer shorts
The clip opens by showing Allen standing proudly in the kilt, while Richardson’s character Jill Taylor quips, “It hangs down a lot, I just wish it was shorter.”
Seconds later, Allen turns to lift the kilt all the way up so only Richardson can see what’s ahead.
She gasps dramatically as the live studio audience roars with laughter.
But Richardson said TMZ: ‘People ask me what was under the kilt when he showed me, he was well dressed underneath, I was surprised he lifted the kilt up, not by a man in his underpants.’
Before breaking out as a showbiz star, Anderson in the early ’90s had appeared in such comedies as Married… with Children, Charles in Charge and Top of the Heap.
Former co-stars: Anderson, right, appeared with Allen, left, on the ABC show for 22 episodes in 1991 and 1992.
Anderson appeared in a total of 22 episodes of the series in its first and second seasons between 1991 and 1992, making a final appearance during the show’s sixth season in 1997.
He left in the midst of massive career success with the hit show Baywatch, in which he played CJ Parker.
Tim himself was also involved in a number of projects following the success of Home Improvement and starred in another long-running series, Last Man Standing, and was also the voice actor for Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story franchise.
Before his rise to fame, the comedian hit some rough patches and was arrested in 1978 for cocaine possession.
He pleaded guilty to drug charges and was sentenced, but was later paroled in 1981 after spending just over two years in a Federal Correctional Institution.
New Memoir: Her memoir, Love, Pamela, published by HarperCollins, was released on January 31, along with her Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story.