After reading her memoir, Pamela Anderson says strangers apologize and say 'I Like You Now'

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Anderson, who is featured in the photographs accompanying her Elle interview and is wearing pieces from Aritzia's fall 2023 Babaton campaign, remarked,

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"I'm just like, 'What did you think of me before?' "

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"You don't really think about it in the moment," she said of her former public persona.

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You have two children to care for, you're struggling to make ends meet, your heart is crushed,

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and you're always reaching out to others in an effort to feel whole again. Each day, we do the best we can to just exist.

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Anderson went on, "So I guess decades got away from me." To complete a circle of sorts is a good feeling. I thought retirement meant I could work less, but here I am busier than ever.

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Anderson remained silent last year as her relationship with Tommy Lee, marriage to him,

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