Pamela Anderson has revealed she left the Golden Globe Awards early on Sunday (January 11) in part to avoid Seth Rogen.
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The Naked Gun star told Andy Cohen in a SiriusXM interview that she left the ceremony after presenting the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy to Rose Byrne for her turn in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You because being around him “felt yucky”.
Rogen produced the 2022 miniseries Pam & Tommy, which chronicled the fallout after a sex tape Anderson made in the mid-1990s with her then-husband, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, was made public. He also appeared in the series as Rand Gauthier, the electrician who stole the tape.
Anderson has previously said that she wasn’t consulted about the series, describing it as “really crushing” and “salt in the wound” and calling the show’s producers “assholes” who “still owe me a public apology”.
She expressed similar views to Cohen in the interview, out on Tuesday (January 20), saying, “I just felt like, ‘Eh.’ You know? Like, how can someone make a TV series out of the difficult times in your life, and ‘I’m a living, breathing human being over here. Hello.’”
When he asked if she’d bumped into Rogen at the Globes, she said she felt “weird” about seeing him, explaining: “I may have just felt like, ’I’m not chopped liver over here.’ … I felt like you know – I’ve been so busy working. I’ve done five movies in the last year. So, I’ve just been busy, but sometimes it hits you, and you feel kind of down.”
She said it all “felt a little yucky” but expressed hope that Rogen will apologise at some point, “Not that it matters”.
Anderson added that, while you’re considered “free game” if you’re in the public eye, “Your darkest, deepest secrets or your tragedies in your life shouldn’t be fair game for [a] TV series. That pissed me off a little bit.”
She said that, while she avoided him in real life, she confronted him in her mind, before leaving the ceremony, after which she “went right to bed”.
As for Lee, he said ahead of the series’ release that the series was a “really beautiful story” and that he’d been in contact with Sebastian Stan, who portrayed him. Lily James, who played Anderson, has said in the years since that the fallout made her reconsider playing real people on screen (via HuffPost UK), but Anderson herself feels no ill will towards her.
Lee attempted to comfort Anderson after the series came out, the actress telling Variety in 2023 that he wrote her a note saying, ‘Don’t let this hurt you like it did the first time.’
NME gave the series a three-star review, writing: “With Anderson’s career at its height and Mötley Crüe drummer Lee’s on the wane, Pam & Tommy does a solid job of showing how the video affected both of its stars differently. Where Anderson was slut-shamed, Lee was celebrated, a polarity made all the more troublesome for its timing – coming when Anderson was attempting to transition from televisual eye candy to proper movie star with the release of her action movie Barb Wire.”
Meanwhile, Anderson wrapped up filming on her latest movie, the drama thriller Rosebush Pruning, in which she plays The Mother, in February last year. Also in the works are the movies Place To Be and Love Is Not The Answer, the latter seeing Michael Cera make his directorial debut.
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