Pamela Anderson is lastly telling her aspect of the story in a brand new candid Netflix documentary. “Pamela, a Love Story,” directed by Ryan White and produced by Anderson’s son, Brandon Thomas Lee, examines the scope of her life. For the primary time, the movie shares new particulars about her profession, love life, and extra, straight from the supply — with some assist from household, together with her sons, Brandon, 26, and Dylan, 25.

Netflix payments the documentary — which premiered on Jan. 31, the identical day that Anderson launched her memoir, “Love, Pamela” — as an “intimate and humanizing portrait of one of many world’s most well-known blonde bombshells,” additionally noting that it follows Anderson’s life and profession “from small city woman to worldwide intercourse image, actress, activist, and doting mom.” Not solely does the documentary spotlight her rise to fame as a Playboy model-turned-actor, however it additionally consists of diary entries that reveal the trauma Anderson skilled as a child. It dives into different headline-grabbing facets of Anderson’s life, too, together with her high-profile relationship with ex-husband Tommy Lee, their sex-tape scandal, the lads she’s romanced over time (which embody Mario Van Peebles and Kelly Slater), how Hulu’s “Pam & Tommy” collection retraumatized her many years later, and, in fact, the fixed chatter about her physique within the media.

In a latest interview with Insider, White mentioned, “I noticed very early that this girl was prepared to speak about something and nothing was off limits.” He added: “The Pamela Anderson I do know may be very totally different from the Pamela Anderson within the present. So I feel the documentary goes to shock individuals.”

Learn forward for all the largest revelations from “Pamela, a Love Story.”