‘It was romantic’: Pamela Anderson reveals ‘frisky’ night with Julian Assange
In the only bombshell Julian Assange hasn’t yet leaked, Pamela Anderson revealed their “frisky”, mescal-fuelled night on the run from US espionage charges.
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Pamela Anderson has walked in on a Jack Nicholson threesome and had her Tommy Lee sex tape broadcast worldwide, but it’s her night with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London that ranks among her most memorable.
In what may be one of the only bombshells the Australian WikiLeaks founder has kept secret, the Baywatch star spoke for the first time about her boozy night with Assange while on the run from espionage charges in the United States.
When asked whether her long-running relationship with Assange was strictly platonic or sexual, the former Playboy model played coy as she described one mescal-fuelled night at the embassy as “frisky”.
“It was romantic because it was so inspirational,” she told Variety to promote her upcoming memoir, Love, Pamela.
“He’s so passionate about life and about everything. There’s just nothing that he says that isn’t fascinating. So there was definitely a connection. We would just talk through the night and drink mescal and laugh and tell stories.”
The actor-turned-activist has long fuelled speculation over her friendship with Assange after declaring her love for the Aussie after visiting him at His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh in May 2019.
“He is a good man, he is an incredible person,” she told media outside the UK’s toughest prison.
“I love him, I can’t imagine what he has been going through.
Assange spent spending seven years at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London before he was forced out, arrested, and locked up behind bars at Belmarsh, where he remains fighting extradition to the United States.
In March 2022, Assange married Stella Morris, with whom he shares two children with from his time at the Ecuadorean Embassy.
Anderson called his charges on 18 counts related to WikiLeaks’ release of military secrets an “interesting hypocrisy”.
“It’s just heartbreaking because he’s in a Supermax prison in solitary confinement while he’s awaiting a trial, and all of these other people are breaking the law all over the place and no one’s in jail,” she said.
While she is no longer allowed to visit Assange in person, she still sends letters that are read to him by his legal team. It’s a part of her continued activism that she says shows there is more to her than a sex tape or Playboy Mansion orgies.
“My life has been much more meaningful than a fluffy hat or a sex tape,” Anderson said, pointing to her work with PETA which put her face-to-face with Vladimir Putin lobbying Russia to ban the import of seal products.
“I’d be at the Kremlin, sitting at the table, and everybody would be there. And I would be rustling my papers with my dolphin pictures and my beluga whales getting hypothermia and pleading across the table to these people that actually did things in real-time,” she said
“Putin was only in the room once, but he heard of everything. I would get messages from other people that he was pleased that I was there — he kind of got a kick out of me.”
And while there’s more to Anderson than her Playboy past, Hugh Hefner’s mansion still played a formative role in her humour and resilience, recalling the time she walked in on Jack Nicholson in a bathroom one night she was an observer rather than a participant at the Hollywood sex parties.
“Mr Nicholson had two beautiful women with him,” she wrote in the memoir.
“They were all giggling and kissing up against the wall, sliding all over each other. I walked by to use the mirror, bending over the sink to fix my lip gloss. Trying not to look, but I couldn’t help myself and caught his eye in the reflection. I guess that got him to the finish line, because he made a funny noise, smiled and said, ‘Thanks, dear.’”
Asked to revisit that night, Anderson grinned at the “complete freedom” of those glory days.
“It was full of artists, philanthropists, intellectuals, chivalry, beautiful women. It was really an experience,” she said.
HIGHLIGHTS OF PAMELA ANDERSON’S INTERVIEW WITH VARIETY INCLUDE
The allegation Tim Allen flashed her on the set of Home Improvement:
“I’m not a very judgmental person,” she said. “Tim is a comedian, it’s his job to cross the line. I’m sure he had no bad intentions. Times have changed, though. I doubt anyone would try that post #MeToo. It’s a new world.”
On three sexual assaults, one by a female babysitter, another by a 25-year-old man when she was 12, and the third by her teenage boyfriend and his group of friends.
“Predators look for somebody to do things to that are so humiliating you’d be embarrassed to tell somebody,” she said. “Those kinds of things really colour the rest of your life. You block things out or you’re gonna deal with it later — and I’m dealing with it now.”
On a flight to Hawaii for one of her first jobs as a swimsuit model:
“He [the photographer] was much older and ruddy, drooly, lecherous,” she said.
“Then he whispered to me that I’d be the only girl, that he chose me … that it would be intimate, no need for hair or makeup people or photography assistants. Just him and me. I was sick to my stomach. I knew it was not good.”
On making only US $1,500 per episode on the global phenomenon Baywatch:
“The producers of ‘Baywatch’ made a fortune,” she says. “I just didn’t have the representation back then. Or the know-how. You don’t realise when you’re doing a TV show that it’s going to be that popular, so you kind of sign your life away.”
On victimhood:
“I’m not a victim, and I’m not the damsel in distress,” Anderson said. “I’ve made my choices in my life. Some obviously were made for me, but I’ve always been able to find myself again. And it’s created a strong person and a strong parent.”
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