Pamela Anderson Says Her 'Madly in Love' Parents 'Worked It Out' After Some Tumultuous Years: 'Not My Business'

"There were many times where I didn’t want her to stay in it," the actress recalled of her mom and dad's past tumultuous relationship

Pamela Anderson is reflecting on her parents' complicated relationship.

The Last Showgirl actress, 57, is one of Glamour magazine's Global Women of the Year, and in a wide-ranging interview, she spoke about living next to her parents Carol and Barry, and how they reconciled in their marriage after a tumultuous past.

"Well, I know my parents, my dad was a terrible drinker, and my mom kind of figured out a way…. And I blamed her, too, because why was she staying in this kind of relationship?" Anderson recalled. "There were many times where I didn’t want her to stay in it."

"But," she continued, "they worked it out. They’re madly in love."

Anderson, who is the mom of two adult sons Brandon Thomas Lee, 28, and Dylan Jagger Lee, 26, said when it came to her parents, she "just accepted their relationship is theirs; it’s not my business."

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The star wrote about her father's alcoholism and abusive behavior in her bestselling memoir Love, Pamela, including an instance when she claims Barry drowned her kittens in front of her as a kid. In the 2023 documentary Pamela: A Love Story, the actress said, "My parents, they fought a lot, but they also made up."

Anderson told Glamour, "I love my dad. My dad is such an interesting person. He’s in Mensa, the family’s Finnish. He’s very poetic… Growing up, playing poker and all the things that he did, I guess people would’ve considered him kind of like the wild man of the neighborhood, very like the bad boy.”

Today, Anderson lives on Vancouver Island in Canada next to her mom and dad. “We have a big property, and it used to be nine cabins; now we have three. So [my parents] live in one cabin, and I have two houses that are mine. I always say I meet my mom in the vegetable garden and we get along just fine. If we’re in the garden, it’s all roses, really!"

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Elsewhere in the Glamour interview, Anderson reflected on how becoming a mother helped her stay on the right path in life.

"There were many times where I could have just gone that way, but what saved my life — and you never want to put this on your kids — were my boys," she said. "Because without my boys, I wouldn’t have been able to be as strong as I was."

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