Pamela Anderson ‘has suppressed rage’ over leaked sex tape but ‘isn’t holding onto trauma,’ expert says

PAMELA Anderson has conquered her fears over her infamous sex tape leak, a body language expert has claimed.

But she thinks the Playboy icon's gestures in her Netflix doc hint at anger alongside her notorious body confidence.

Analyzing footage from the recently released documentary, Patti Wood told The U.S Sun: "Pamela's very calm when she's retells the story of the sex tape.

"At some level, she's dealt with it and made her peace with it.

"She also does it in a truthful manner. Her head tilts down and her eye focus goes up, and that's when she goes into her memory to access the information.

"The first time in the footage that I see any visible indication of any anger about the theft is when she snarls when talking about her legal ordeal.

"Otherwise, she's wearing what looks like a soft bathrobe, which is sort of like a grandma who's soft and nurturing.

"What she's saying is, 'I'm vulnerable here, but I'm also still super sexy.'"

Pamela, A Love Story charts the life and times of the former Baywatch star, and among plenty of archive footage, it shows the 55-year-old unpacking her turbulent past from her modest home in British Columbia.

From the outset, Pamela’s current surroundings seem a far cry from the luxurious and celebrity-obsessed world of Hollywood where she was once the queen of Tinseltown.

Central to the film, however, is how Anderson and her then-husband, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, managed the impact of a leaked sex tape following the birth of their son.

The controversy surrounding the tape involves the theft of a home video in the mid-nineties from a safe in Pamela's Malibu home and the impact of the newlywed's failed litigations.

It also charts why Pamela and Tommy turned down a whopping $5 million for the tape despite others capitalizing off it for years to come.

Talking about the ordeal in her film she said: “We never made a sex tape. We just filmed each other, always, and lived a sexy passionate life: sweet newlyweds. Just two crazy naked people in love."

"Typically, when somebody tells a lie or in the middle of a lie, they're telling a story they made up inside their head.

"As Pamela repeats what Tommy says in the archive footage, she does his head movement and shakes her head as if she's in that role of what Tommy says.

"And she even does the eye focus down towards what I assume is the assistant in the conversation.

"She's telling the story, she's becoming him.

"Her shoulders go up as she's saying in Tommy's voice, where did you put the safe?"

It was only last year when Hulu released the film, Pam & Tommy.

This spurred Pamela to release her own personal version of her life story, covering the sex tape leak and ensuing events.

The mom of two worked alongside her son Brendan, who co-produced the film, and the worldwide release was much anticipated.

"It was already hurtful enough the first time," Pamela says of the Hulu production. "It’s like one of those things where you’re going, 'Really? People are still capitalizing off that thing?'”

"Pamela, for the most part, looks strong throughout," adds Patti.

"In one part, she's sort of lying back with her bathrobe on kind of provocatively, which is a sort of mixed message about all of it.

"She has no makeup on, has messy hair, and is wearing what looks like a bathrobe and is in this provocative position.

"But there's a little bit of her vulnerability at times when I see her shoulders come down in front and her head comes down, and she looks down and her eyes close.

"She's trying to pull down the shades of how she felt at that moment and it creeps in when she's recalling how vulnerable she felt when they didn't know how to get the tape back.

"She's still at peace with it, though.

"The only time in the sex tape section [of the documentary] where you can almost see a bit of a snarl on her face and her voice goes up slightly is surrounding the lawyers."

At the time, Anderson and Lee seemed to have been the first victims of online revenge porn.

The tape was reportedly stolen from their home by an electrician named Rand Gauthier, whom they'd fired.

Pamela and Tommy went on to file charges against Penthouse after the magazine published images from the tape.

They also filed injunctions against anyone holding copies of the sex tape, though those proved unsuccessful.

"You can see a lingering anger when she talks about the legal situation, but it doesn't overwhelm her," says Patti.

"She also does a partial tongue thrust, which shows suppressed rage.

"When Pamela closes the sex tape segment, she also shows vocal strain and appears on the verge of tears.

"As she begins to relive the character assassination she suffered after the sex tape leak, her hand motions change as well and come forward and out.

"This is followed by her wearing makeup and soft clothes and colors.

"This is called the Recency Effect and would be the very last part of this segment that lingers in the memory of the viewer.

"Pamela's choice was to have a bear naked face until the end of this part but she wants her beauty and her pulled-together sexy beauty to be the lingering image."


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