Brandon Thomas Lee discusses the infamous sex tape involving his parents, Pamela Anderson, and his ex-husband, Tommy Lee. Image Source: Closer Weekly
Brandon Thomas Lee discusses the infamous sex tape involving his parents, Pamela Anderson, and ex-husband, Tommy Lee.
In the upcoming Netflix documentary "Pamela: A Love Story," Brandon Thomas Lee, the eldest son of former couple Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, who was born in 1996, talks about the infamous tape that was stolen from their safe, which was kept in the garage and was leaked online.
Brandon Thomas Lee recalls as a child thinking that everybody knew everything concerning him and his family, and believing that the things they shouldn't understand were like having to know a dirty little secret about his family. He recalled that every time someone mentioned Pamela Anderson's name in school, he would engage in an argument with them, and he was quick to flush with rage.
In 1996, the former Playboy model commenced a lawsuit against video distribution company IEG, but she was not able to arrest and charge any individual for the stealing, and she and Tommy later relented to a highly classified settlement with the video distribution company. Years later, she uncovers that her youngest son, Dylan, now 25, was also impacted.
Pamela Anderson stated that when she was in Playboy, she was not considering having children and how they might grow up and how disappointing it could be for them. She explained that she had always intended to tell them once they were mature enough to know, but she never had the opportunity because they found Playboy before she did, and having a sex tape encompassing their mom and dad distributed all over the internet was an entirely new hill for them.
The actress recalled her younger son Dylan approaching her crying and asking why she made that tape, to which she responded that they did not make a sex tape. It was speculated at the time that the pair may have leaked their tape themselves to profit, but Pamela Anderson asserts to this day that she'd never commercialize the tape, adding that she wouldn't have accepted a billion dollars to share it.
Brandon Thomas says in the documentary that she should have received the money, adding that she ought to have made a million dollars if she had just signed the papers. but she stayed quietly without anything and witnessed her career fade away into pure nothingness, noting that she was in debt for the majority of her life.
Dylan stated that his mother always put family first, noting that things would have changed if she had made some money from the tape, noting that people earned millions of dollars, and Dylan stated that Pamela was just like "no" since she cared 100% about her family's well-being and her own.
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee married after only four days of dating and stayed together for three years. In her documentary, she revealed that the love began to fade after Tommy Lee began to drink excessively and then became envious of her co-stars, particularly after their younger son was born. She claimed that the rocker would show up on the Baywatch set while she was filming and, on one occasion, trashed her trailer once the script required her to kiss a co-star.
Tommy was extremely envious, she said, and she thought it was adorable because that's what love is, noting that He was everywhere, always in my line of sight. It was excessive. Pamela incorporated that she was working and had two lovely children, and she was busy with them, and she thinks Tommy went through a little bit of postpartum depression.
She shared an incident where she explained that Tommy was rocking on the floor, Brandon was crying in the pen, and she was holding Dylan one night. She said Tommy kept yelling that he wants his wife back and Pamela said she lost it and yelled at him that he needs to grow up adding that it's no longer about him. She said she had never spoken to him in that manner before noting that Brandon was holding her leg as he went black. She was hyperventilating and terrified so she dialed 911 and turned off the phone.
Tommy Lee was detained and sentenced to six months behind bars for attempting to assault her and kick her while she was holding her six-week-old son. Tommy Lee wrote numerous letters from jail, pleading with Pamela to save their wedding, but she turned it down, and the couple's divorce was given in 1998. She admitted that she has never loved anyone so profoundly before, and she believes as if a part of her did die.
Anderson says, looking back, she believes they have failed their children and that's something she finds particularly difficult to forgive herself for. She notes that the former couple really should have found a way to navigate around it but any kind of violent maneuver was inappropriate for me. Pamela mentioned that it was a symbolic representation of her childhood fears and she didn't want that for her children; as much as she adored Tommy, she adored their children even more.
In the months and years that followed the altercation, she focused on raising their boys. She explains that they saved her and she does not want to overwhelm her children with it, but having kids has changed everything, and she has enjoyed every minute of it. Pamela wrote in a touching letter to Dylan, then nine months old that Mummy and Daddy will someday be able to be pals, she wishes, but she would want him to know that she would prefer to be alone than ever live with that abusive behavior again; he will always be a safe place.
Pamela Anderson claims that her two sons, Brandon and Dylan, persuaded her to make the documentary. They were the ones who inspired her to tell her story, she said, adding that Brandon and Dylan are genuine miracles given their genetic pool. Pamela adds that the boys have gone through a lot, but they're not broken. Brandon is a brilliant and fiery young fellow. Dylan is more introspective and serene. It's a great squad.
Pamela Anderson's Netflix documentary "Pamela: A Love Story," will be out on 31st January.
