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Pamela Anderson's first boyfriend in ninth grade decided it would be funny to gang-rape her with six of his friends. Seven boys. One girl. She was fourteen years old. It wasn't the first time. By the time her boyfriend and his friends pinned her down, she had already been destroyed twice. A female babysitter started molesting her when she was six. The abuse continued for four years - "the games she used to make me play on her," Pamela wrote decades later, unable to describe them even in her own memoir. The babysitter died in a car accident years later. The secret died with her. Pamela never told anyone. At twelve, a friend brought her to her boyfriend's house. The boyfriend's older brother - a 25-year-old man - offered to teach her backgammon. Then offered a back massage. Then raped her. She later described it as her "first heterosexual experience." "Needless to say, I had a hard time trusting humans," she said. "I just wanted off this earth." Her father was an alcoholic who once held her mother's face above a lit stove. Her mother worked two jobs and never knew what was happening to her daughter. Animals were Pamela's only comfort - she spent hours hiding with her dog, avoiding a world that had already shown her its worst. Then Hollywood found her. Baywatch. Playboy. The red swimsuit. The world saw a sex symbol - blonde, tanned, untouchable. Nobody saw the girl who had been systematically broken before she ever stepped in front of a camera. She married Tommy Lee. He kicked her while she held their seven-week-old son. Grabbed her arm, twisted it, threw her and the baby into a wall. He got six months. She filed for divorce, got a restraining order - and kept meeting him in secret. She called him "the only time I was ever truly in love." Their private footage was stolen from a safe in their garage and sold to Penthouse. The whole world watched it. She has never watched it herself. Another boyfriend pushed her out of a moving car. Another stripped her naked and left her in bushes. Another threw a silverware container at her head. "They would turn violent, mean, cruel, so quickly," she wrote. On her first day of filming Home Improvement at 23, she says Tim Allen opened his robe and flashed her. She had been in Hollywood less than a year. For thirty years, the world reduced Pamela Anderson to a punchline. The bimbo. The sex tape. Nobody ever asked how a girl from a small Canadian town ended up running from something nobody could see. She told her full story in her memoir Love, Pamela in 2023. She was fifty-five years old. Does the world owe an apology to the woman it spent thirty years laughing at - or was she always just the easiest person in the room to not take seriously?