Pamela Anderson's sons convinced her to make upcoming Netflix doc - Yahoo Entertainment

Pamela Anderson is acceptable to archer her ain story.

Details astir her authorized Netflix documentary, Pamela, A Love Story, are being revealed by Vanity Fair. The project, announced successful March connected the heels of Hulu's biographical bid Pam & Tommy, comes retired Jan. 31, but it's been successful the works for years and features decades of her idiosyncratic movies and journals. The doc volition deed the aforesaid time arsenic her memoir Love, Pamela.

Among the things we've learned astir the movie project, helmed by Emmy-nominated documentarian Ryan White (The Case Against 8), are...

Her sons convinced her to bash it

Brandon and Dylan Lee, whom the Baywatch alum, 55, shares with archetypal hubby Tommy Lee, encouraged their ma "to archer her communicative connected her ain terms" aft seeing radical archer it for her "in a mode that they don’t consciousness is authentic to who she is," White said. Brandon, who serves arsenic a shaper for Pamela: A Love Story and appears connected camera, was important successful getting Pam to unfastened up. She told VF that her elder lad "can speech maine into thing with his sincere bosom and a fierceness that lone a lad could have. He wanted to archer my story, authentically and without distortion."

She turned implicit decades of location movies and journals for the project

The Playboy exemplary gave implicit entree to her idiosyncratic videos and journals — documenting her headline-making emotion life, vocation and her household moments with her sons — without adjacent reviewing them.

"The infamous stolen tape, which we’re ever precise cautious to telephone 'the stolen tape' and not 'sex tape,' was conscionable 1 of hundreds of hours that [she and Tommy] filmed," said White, who said the movie sees Pam — who sat for her interviews with him sans constitution — "being earthy and honest, for amended oregon worse... From the precise beginning, she was like, 'You tin inquire maine anything. I volition speech astir anything. I volition beryllium thing but honorable with you astir it all.'"

While filming, Pam watched immoderate location movies for the archetypal clip connected camera, including of her wedding to Kid Rock (aboard a yacht successful St. Tropez) and aboriginal days with Tommy. White said of the footage of Pam and Tommy falling successful love, "I deliberation our movie volition truly humanize them... They’re often seen arsenic these larger-than-life ... possibly adjacent cartoon characters." The footage of them gathering is really "really beautiful."

All of her ex-husbands are successful the doc

The VIP prima joined 5 men — Tommy ​(1995-1998)​, Rock ​(2006-2007)​, Rick Salomon ​(2007-2008) and​ ​​(2014-2015),​ Jon Peters ​(2020-2020)​ and Dan Hayhurst ​ ​(2020-2022)​ — and they each enactment successful the project. "All of her husbands are a portion of her story, truthful they’re successful our film, including the astir caller one," White said.

She talks astir the stolen enactment tape

This documentary has been successful the works for respective years and portion making it, she learned astir the Hulu bid astir her and Tommy's stolen tape. White said it triggered a achy aftershock of trauma that plays retired wrong this caller doc, and she uses the movie to sermon the interaction of the portion being stolen and released erstwhile publically and for all.

"Nobody knew the information — adjacent I don’t cognize 100% of what happened, but I deliberation what is astir important is to stock my quality feelings and however overmuch it wounded and however it undeniably defined maine moving guardant — successful my vocation and my relationships," Pam said.

Pam has nary volition of watching the doc

"The documentary I haven’t seen," she revealed, "and I person nary volition of seeing. I gave afloat entree to my archives and diaries, and I anticipation that done afloat transparency, it makes consciousness to somebody."

She's inactive connected a quest for love, but practiced self-love portion making this project

Over the people of making the film, Pam's 5th matrimony ended and it led to her confronting her narration past for the project. The filmmaker described Pam arsenic a "hopeless romantic" successful hunt of "true love," and she agreed, saying, "I’m a romantic, and romance is tragedy. I judge successful fairy tales."

White said determination are "many emotion stories" wrong the movie but, "Ultimately I deliberation the extremity of the movie is astir her putting much of that emotion into herself."

On the aforesaid time Pamela, A Love Story is released, her memoir, published by HarperCollins, volition travel retired arsenic well.

"Writing my publication was therapy," Pam said.

In October, Pam told People mag that the publication is astir everything she's gone through. "These are each my feelings, astir my beingness — nary 'Woe is me,' though immoderate times were tough, I made it done and had to find emotion successful grace and dignity mixed with humor, acceptance, and forgiveness," she said.