Pamela Anderson Doubles Down On #MeToo Comments: ‘It’s Just Common Sense’

Former “Baywatch” Pamela Anderson, a star in the #MeToo movement raised eyebrows again by stating that women should be able to leave a room in a hotel alone.

Anderson sat down with journalist Ronan Farrow — who broke The story that took down former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and jump-started the #MeToo movement  — for a profile piece Interview Magazine was published Wednesday. He asked her if she believed it. “healthy” To bring that idea back in 2017,

“You told Megyn Kelly, ‘You know what you’re getting into when you go to a hotel room alone.’ Do you feel like that was a healthy thought to introduce into the dialogue at that point?” Farrow asked.

“I could even take it a step further,” was Anderson’s reply. “My mother would tell me — and I think this is the kind of feminism I grew up with — it takes two to tango … ‘If someone answers the door in a hotel robe and you’re going for an interview, don’t go in. But if you do go in, get the job.’”

“That’s a horrible thing to say but that’s how I was,” Anderson acknowledged, but she continued to add that her sense of self-worth has helped her respond to certain situations differently than younger women in Hollywood.

“But I think a lot of people don’t have that or they weren’t taught that,” Anderson stated that she was thankful to the #MeToo movement, as she believes that it has changed the dynamic.

Anderson initially Backlash sparkedFarrow said that Farrow made the comment after an interview with Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News host, in which she suggested that women should be more prepared than going alone to auditions in hotel rooms.

“When I came to Hollywood, of course I had a lot of offers to do private auditions and things that made absolutely no sense,” Kelly was informed by Anderson. “[It’s] just common sense: Don’t go into a hotel room alone. If someone answers the door in a bathrobe, you know, leave.”

The former Playboy playmate told Kelly that surviving sexual assault as a child may have been what made it easier for her to recognize the red flags — and had taught her never to put herself in that kind of situation again.

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