Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson were recently reminded of their past with invasion of privacy while watching Pamela Anderson’s new Netflix documentary, “Pamela, a love story.”
Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson comments on the matter
During a recent episode of their “Calm Down” podcast, the Fox Sports personalities discussed the documentary — which addresses the controversy over Anderson’s leaked sex tape with ex-husband Tommy Lee — and recalled their own experiences with video voyeurism and cell phone hacking.
“It was so freaking good… It touched me in a certain way because of video voyeurism,” said Andrews, who went through her own nightmare ordeal when a stalker secretly recorded her in her hotel room in 2008.
“… I had never heard her speak about the violation and the invasion of privacy that it was. And one line that resonated with me, because I know you and I both deal with PTSD from this, was that she said ‘this had never been dealt with before. No one had ever seen it.’
“It took such a toll on her, as her kids say, it ruined her career, ruined her relationship when this new movie came out [Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy” miniseries] she talked about how it brought it back up. So many times, she was like [in the Netflix documentary], ‘I don’t feel good’… which is how I feel a lot of times. I just never heard her to articulate it that way before, and my heart went out to her and I know yours did as well.”
Thompson then weighed in on the documentary, and recalled an incident in 2018, when private photos and videos were hacked from her iCloud account and shared online.
“It’s an unfortunate thing that you and I both have empathy for one another on because we went through it in different ways,” Thompson said. “But when everything happened to me, those were private videos and pictures that were taken with my boyfriend, that were never meant to have someone hack into my phone and take.
“[When strangers have said to me in the past], ‘Why would you ever even take those?’ OK, so, what I always say is, ‘Give me your phone, and if you don’t want me to see anything that’s in that phone, then you’re just going to open it up, any email, any text message, anything — this isn’t just about pictures. This is your private property that you don’t think is ever going to be exposed. This was a private video in her own home and was stolen.
“… I just think her never making a dollar off of it and the thousands and thousands of dollars I have spent to try and take these things down — and then the cease and desists don’t work and at some point you feel like you’re up against this thing that you just can’t win at anyways without going down a deep rabbit hole of those kinds of conversations because that’s for a another podcast on another day. But I had a lot of compassion for her.”
. @ErinAndrews & @CharissaT talk about the new @pamelaanderson documentary and share their stories about invasion of privacy pic.twitter.com/2W7AeC4Yia
— Calm Down with Erin and Charissa (@calmdownpodcast) February 15, 2023
