Canadian icon Pamela Anderson made a swift exit from Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony, revealing in a new interview that she left partly to avoid an encounter with actor and producer Seth Rogen.
A Deliberate Exit to Avoid Confrontation
The 58-year-old actress and activist from Ladysmith, British Columbia, presented the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy to Rose Byrne. Immediately after, Anderson says she "went right to bed," skipping the rest of the event. In an upcoming Sirius XM interview with Andy Cohen, debuting January 20, Anderson admitted she high-tailed it to sidestep Rogen.
The tension stems from Rogen's involvement in "Pam & Tommy," the 2022 Hulu miniseries that dramatized the fallout from the stolen sex tape Anderson made with then-husband Tommy Lee in the mid-1990s. Rogen produced and starred in the series, which Anderson had no involvement in and has repeatedly criticized.
"Salt in the Wound": Anderson's Ongoing Hurt
Anderson, who has previously called the series' existence "salt in the wound," reiterated to Cohen that Rogen still owes her a public apology. "I just felt like, 'Eh.' You know?" she said. "Like, how can someone make a TV series out of the difficult times in your life, and 'I'm a living, breathing human being over here. Hello.'"
When Cohen asked if she had run into Rogen at the Globes, Anderson explained the situation made her feel "weird." "I may have just felt like, 'I'm not chopped liver over here,'" she stated, adding that while she's been busy working—having done five movies in the last year—the feelings sometimes resurface. "Sometimes it hits you, and you feel kind of down," she confessed.
A Mental Confrontation and Complicated Feelings
Anderson described the whole experience as feeling "a little yucky," but held out a faint hope. "Eventually, hopefully he will, maybe he'll reach out to me and apologize. Not that that matters," she said. After Cohen suggested an apology might "mean something," Anderson clarified her complex stance on privacy and exploitation.
"Well, you are free game. When you are a public person, they say you have no right to privacy," Anderson acknowledged. "But your darkest, deepest secrets or your tragedies in your life shouldn't be fair game for [a] TV series. That pissed me off a little bit."
While she didn't "make a beeline for Rogen" at the event, Anderson admitted to confronting him in her mind. "And [I] really told him how I felt. So I'm sitting there in my seat just going — you know?" she explained, demonstrating a hard stare for Cohen. She described the environment as uncomfortable, noting many attendees were from her "Malibu days" and that she still doesn't feel she belongs in those rooms.
Lily James, who portrayed Anderson in the series, has since expressed regret, admitting the fallout made her reconsider playing real people on screen. Rogen has not publicly apologized to Anderson for his role in making the miniseries.
