Pamela Anderson‘s son, Brandon Thomas Lee, has expressed his disgust on the manner his well-known mom was exploited within the ’90s.
Chatting to leisure web site Extra in the course of the premiere of Anderson’s new Netflix doco, Pamela: A Love Story, Brandon, 26, revealed the Baywatch alum solely receives $US4000 ($5500) in residuals yearly from the present due to some dangerous offers she was pressured to make prior to now.
“When I go back and I even look at past deals and residual checks, people would be shocked to find out how people really took advantage of her,” mentioned Brandon, whose father is Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee.
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Brandon described his mom on the time as “a young girl making a bad deal on a big show and she was the biggest star at the time”, and mentioned it was legal she was exploited in that manner. The actress performed the function of lifeguard C.J. Parker within the hit collection from 1992 to 1997.
“A lot of people made a lot of money off that, people are going to have to have their day when we come knocking … when she makes $4,000 a year off of Baywatch? That’s a crime,” he mentioned.
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In the Netflix doco, Brandon additionally wished that his mom made cash off her intercourse tape together with his rocker dad. The video the couple filmed after they had been on their honeymoon again in 1995 was stolen and leaked to the general public, which Brandon mentioned principally ruined his mom’s life and profession.
“She would’ve made millions of dollars if she just would have signed a piece of paper. Instead, she sat back with nothing and watched her career fizzle into thin air. She was in debt most of her life,” he mentioned within the doco, which he helped produce.
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Adds brother Dylan Jagger Lee, 25: “Things would have been different if she had made money on that tape,” he says on digital camera. “But people made millions of dollars and she was like ‘no’ because she 100 percent cared about her family being OK and me being OK.”
In the Netflix collection, Brandon and Dlyan additionally recalled the imply feedback their friends made through the years about their mother and father’ intercourse tape and the way they’d get tremendous defensive about it.
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“When I was a kid, I always thought that everyone knew things about me and my family that they really shouldn’t have known, and everyone had this dirty little secret about my family,” Brandon mentioned.
“I remember in school if anyone brought up my mum I would just fight. I was very quick to flush with anger.”
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