Pamela Anderson has revealed the one thing she would “never do” at the Playboy Mansion.
The 59-year-old actress rose to fame after appearing in the iconic magazine and went on to become the person with the most Playboy cover appearances in history.
Although Anderson was a regular guest at Hugh Hefner’s famous Los Angeles mansion, she says she always trusted her instincts and drew a firm line when it came to spending time there.
Pamela Anderson has revealed the one thing she would “never do” at the Playboy Mansion. Credit: Chad Buchanan / Getty
Pamela refused to stay at the mansion
During a previous appearance on The Howard Stern Show, the Baywatch star recalled that she established firm boundaries from the very beginning.
“You know, my first day at the Playboy Mansion I was in my acid wash jeans. You know and some rock T-shirt with my sneakers on with the little balls on the socks,” she said.
“And they were like ‘you know, you can come to the Playboy Mansion closet and get dressed the next time you come out’, and I thought ‘what kind of clothes would be in the Playboy Mansion closet?'”
When Stern suggested the women at the mansion often seemed to be moulded into the same person, Anderson admitted photographer David LaChapelle had noticed the same thing.
“David LaChapelle used to say going to the Playboy Mansion was like the twilight zone. Like, he thought he saw 100 of me from the back, and then they would turn around and not be me,” she remarked.
Although many women lived at the mansion, the Naked Gun star said she made the decision never to stay there overnight.
“I wouldn’t stay there,” she explained. “I was nervous. This is my spidey sense. I always thought, even when I came here, the first thing they said was ‘you’ll stay at the Playboy Mansion.’
“I said ‘no, I’ll stay at a hotel.’ And then I stayed at the hotel and they would call me and say ‘Pamela, we want you to come for fight night,’ and I’d say ‘I’m not fighting anybody.’
“They’re like ‘oh, no – you’re just coming to watch Mike Tyson fight on the big screen,’ but I thought they wanted me to jello-wrestle or something, and they said ‘you don’t have to mud wrestle, you’re fine,'” she added.
Pamela praised Hugh Hefner’s influence. Credit: Riccardo S. Savi / Getty
The moment Pamela decided to walk away
The model has also previously opened up about another experience at the mansion that changed how she viewed her relationship with Playboy.
During a 2018 appearance on Life Stories with Piers Morgan, she recalled following a group of women upstairs after becoming curious about what was happening.
“I followed some girls upstairs,” she said. “I thought, ‘What could be going on up here?'”
She then witnessed what she described as “seven girls, one at a time with Hef”.
“I was standing at the end of the bed watching them and then I realized they were watching me,” she said.
The experience prompted an immediate realization: “I thought, ‘This is not a movie. I need to leave.'”
Despite those experiences, Anderson has consistently said she shared a close friendship with Hefner, and there has never been any indication that the pair had a romantic relationship.
Following his death in 2017 at the age of 91, the Barb Wire star paid tribute to him in a heartfelt Instagram post.
“Everything anyone loves about me is because you understood me, accepted me, and encouraged me to be myself,” she wrote, via PEOPLE.
She also credited him with helping make the world “a freer and sexier place,” remembering him as “a gentleman; charming, elegant, chivalrous, and so much fun”.
