Pamela Anderson hits out at ‘insensitive’ Scott Morrison during 2019 visit
The Baywatch star has revisited the “insensitive” comments former Prime Minister Scott Morrison made about her in 2019.
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Pamela Anderson has offered some choice words to former Prime Minister Scott Morrison after comments he made during her 2019 visit to Australia.
The actor wrote about the apparent friction in a new book and said it took place while she was Down Under campaigning for the prison release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
“After I wrote an open letter to Mr Morrison, he responded cheekily in the press by saying he’d love to meet me if he could bring a few of his buddies along,” she said.
“That didn’t go over well. Women were unimpressed with his insensitive remarks, which, by then, had reached the international press.”
Anderson is a longtime friend of Assange and had also been in Australia to visit his mother.
At the time, she took aim at the then-prime minister over the comments which he had made during a radio interview.
“You trivialised and laughed about the suffering of an Australian and his family. You followed it with smutty, unnecessary comments about a woman voicing her political opinion,” Anderson said.
“We all deserve better from our leaders, especially in the current environment.
“Rather than making lewd suggestions about me, perhaps you should instead think about what you are going to say to millions of Australians when one of their own is marched in an orange jumpsuit to Guantanamo Bay – for publishing the truth. You can prevent this.”
Assange came to global attention in the 2000s when his WikiLeaks website released classified US government data.
He has been accused of espionage and is being held in a London prison as the United States fights to extradite him.
Originally published as Pamela Anderson hits out at ‘insensitive’ Scott Morrison during 2019 visit
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