Pamela Anderson isn’t looking in the rearview mirror.
The star of “The Last Showgirl” weighed in on Hulu’s recent four-part docuseries about “Baywatch,” the 90’s TV show that skyrocketed Anderson to fame, making sure everyone knows she didn’t take part in it and isn’t interested in revisiting that era of her life.
“Even today, someone showed me something that Hulu’s doing, some kind of ‘Baywatch’ [documentary], which I have nothing to do with,” Anderson, 57, told Glamour magazine in an interview published Monday.
In Anderson’s view, “After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun” misled people to believe that she was involved with the project because of its promise to feature original members of the show and use of old interviews with the star.
“And so they just dug up some interview, but I had nothing to do with this documentary,” Anderson explained. “They begged everybody around me. They tried to get my kids to talk me into it. They said they’d give them producer credits.”
“I mean, they were trying everything,” she continued. “And I said, ‘No, I really don’t want to go backwards.’”
Anderson discussed the documentary series, which dropped on Aug. 28, during a conversation about another recent TV project (also at Hulu) that looked at Anderson’s past, the scripted miniseries “Pam & Tommy,” which centered on the theft and illegal release of her and ex-husband Tommy Lee’s sex tape.
Though the show’s creator Robert Siegel and actress Lily James, who portrayed Anderson, say they attempted to reach her, she insists no one ever approached her from the show.
“I’ve never had any input. I didn’t know anything about it,” Anderson said.
Reflecting on how the miniseries dredged up painful memories about the sex tape leak – something she calls “a complete crime” – Anderson confessed, “It hit me a lot harder than I even imagined.”
“Because it made me so nauseous to even think about it again when it came out, this Hulu thing,” she added. “It really felt like another kick in the stomach that people might find that entertaining. And that was…I think I lost my husband, my sanity, my career.”
“In the moment I didn’t realize it. It’s like post-traumatic, and so then you just start acting out,” Anderson continued, recalling how she behaved in the years following the sex tape scandal.
“And I knew that I had lots of things that happened [to me] that I could have handled differently. In this world, it’s really important how you manage your career. And I was just Wild West-ing it.”
In Anderson’s Wild West, she supported herself by taking jobs she might not have under different circumstances, such as appearing on “Big Brother.” But today, she’s building a new life for herself.
“Well, it’s shedding those layers, those protective layers,” she said of her new era. “I realized as a very young child, I was playing roles my whole life. I had such a strong imagination. And it’s just what I did.”
“I didn’t realize that was a career,” she added. “And then as I moved here [to the US from Canada] and then Playboy, or being married to Tommy, or whatever it was. I just always wanted to be the best I could be at that. What is a Playmate? What is a rock star’s wife? What is a ‘Baywatch’ [star]?”
“This last couple of years, it was an effort to just stay alone and figure out what I love, what I like, what I want to do,” she explained.
Anderson is keeping busy these days. She attended the premiere of “The Last Showgirl” — which is already getting awards buzz — at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) earlier this month and just finished filming a reboot of the movie “The Naked Gun” alongside Liam Neeson.
The star also put out a documentary about her life — “Pamela, A Love Story” — last year and released two lifestyle shows on HGTV Canada, “Pamela’s Cooking With Love” and “Pamela’s Garden of Eden.”