‘It was romantic’: Pamela Anderson speaks on relationship with Julian Assange

The Baywatch star says ‘there was definitely a connection’.

Pamela Anderson.

Pamela Anderson says she was ready to marry hacker Julian ­Assange to get him out of jail, as she speaks for the first time about their “frisky” relationship.

The former Baywatch star, who is currently promoting her memoir Love, Pamela, has been a close friend and vocal supporter of Assange since the pair were introduced by late fashion designer Vivienne Westwood.

In a new Variety cover story, Anderson spoke about the unlikely “romantic” relationship she had with the now-married WikiLeaks founder, whom she visited on numerous occasions at London’s Ecuadorean embassy, while he was on the run from espionage charges in the US.

Pamela Anderson leaves Belmarsh Prison in south-east London, accompanied by WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson after visiting Julian Assange. Picture: AP

Assange has been held at Belmarsh prison in London since April 2019, after police dragged him from the embassy, where he had spent seven years inside to avoid arrest.

The US government has accused him of conspiring with former US military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to leak classified material in 2010.

Anderson says that his arrest is an “interesting hypocrisy.”

“It’s just heartbreaking because he’s in a supermax prison in solitary confinement while he’s awaiting trial, and all of these other people are breaking the law all over the place and no one’s in jail,” she says.

The nature of Anderson’s relationship with Assange is unclear. She previously told Harvey Levin during an interview on Objectified that she and Assange share “a romantic kind of connection”.

Recalling a “frisky” mescal-fuelled night with him at the ­embassy, she says that their relationship was “romantic because it was so inspirational”.

Pamela Anderson. Picture: Greg Swales for Variety

“He’s so passionate about life and about everything. There’s just nothing that he says that isn’t fascinating,” she says.

“So there was definitely a ­connection. We would just talk through the night and drink mescal and laugh and tell stories.”

In 2019, Anderson wrote an impassioned plea for Scott Morrison to personally intervene to secure the release on Assange.

“You cannot let him be extradited,” the open letter read. “You must protect him and have his back. It’s a death trap. It will go down in the history books as the weakest decision ever made by Australia.”

Morrison wrote back to Anderson explaining that the Australian government would respect Britain’s judicial process.