WWE Hall of Famer Kid Rock’s ex-wife Pamela Anderson recently doubled down on the controversial comments she made at the height of the #MeToo movement.
Pamela Anderson opens up on the matter
In November 2017, the former Playboy Playmate — who admittedly had her own “intimidating” encounter with movie producer-turned-convicted serial rapist Harvey Weinstein — told Megyn Kelly during a “Today” show interview, “You know what you’re getting into if you go to a hotel room alone.”
When asked by Ronan Farrow for an Interview Magazine profile published Wednesday whether she feels that was “a healthy thought to introduce into the dialogue at that point,” Anderson, 55, replied:
“I could even take it a step further.”
“My mother would tell me — and I think this is the kind of feminism I grew up with — it takes two to tango,” the model-actress told Farrow, 35, adding that her mom also used to advise, “‘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.’”
The “Baywatch” star quickly admitted that was “a horrible thing to say,” but she noted she “just had this sense of value and self-worth.”
“But I think a lot of people don’t have that or they weren’t taught that,” she went on. “Thank God for the #MeToo movement because things have changed and people are much more careful and respectful.”
Anderson — who survived childhood sexual abuse — told Kelly during their 2017 sit-down that she “learned to never put [herself] in those situations again.”
