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Sunday, May 18, 2014

{allcanada} Pamela Anderson: I was gang-raped as a teenager

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Pamela Anderson has revealed she was molested at the age of six, raped when she was 12 and gang-raped just years later.

The former Baywatch star spoke about her ordeal at the launch of her charity, The Pamela Anderson Foundation, at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Canadian-born Anderson, who is a long-time animal rights activist, revealed her childhood ordeal during a speech to 200 guests, the Daily Mail reports.

She said she “did not have an easy childhood” and “despite loving parents,” she was molested at the age of six by a female babysitter.

The 46-year-old then revealed how she was raped at 12 by a 25-year-old man.

“I went to a friend’s boyfriend’s house and his older brother decided to teach me backgammon which led into a back massage, which led into rape. My first heterosexual experience,” she said.

“He was 25 years old and I was 12.”

Anderson went on to reveal how her high-school boyfriend “decided it would be funny to gang-rape me with six friends. I wanted off this earth.”

Anderson was accompanied at the launch by her husband Rick Salomon and Brandon, her eldest son from her marriage with ex-husband and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee.

She and Salomon were married briefly in 2007 before divorcing. They confirmed earlier this year that they had reconciled and remarried.

According to its mission statement, The Pamela Anderson Foundation “supports organizations and individuals on the front lines protecting the environment, animal rights and human rights.”