Pamela Anderson is not pretending everything is fine when it comes to Seth Rogen and the legacy of Pam and Tommy. In a candid new interview with Andy Cohen on SiriusXM, the 58-year-old actress revealed she deliberately kept her distance from Rogen at Sunday’s Golden Globes and left the event quickly after her onstage appearance.
Anderson presented the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy to Rose Byrne, then headed out. She told Cohen she “went right to bed” afterward, partly to avoid a potentially awkward run-in with Rogen, who produced and starred in the 2022 miniseries based on the stolen sex tape involving Anderson and her former husband, Tommy Lee.
Anderson had no involvement in the series and has long been vocal about her anger over its creation. She previously described the project as “salt in the wound” and has said Rogen owes her “a public apology,” a stance she repeats in the interview, which premieres Jan. 20.
Explaining her feelings, Anderson told Cohen, “I just felt like, ‘Eh.’ You know? Like, how can someone make a TV series out of the difficult times in your life, and I’m a living, breathing human being over here. Hello.’” Asked whether she saw Rogen at the Globes, Anderson admitted the situation made her uncomfortable.
“I may have just felt like, ’I’m not chopped liver over here,’ ” she said. “I felt a little bit weird about it. And I felt like you know, I’ve been so busy working. I’ve done five movies in the last year. So, I’ve just been busy, but sometimes it hits you, and you feel kind of down.”
She described the show’s lingering impact as something that still bothers her. The whole situation, she said, “felt like a little yucky,” though she added she still hopes that “eventually, hopefully he will, maybe he’ll reach out to me and apologize. Not that that matters.”
Cohen suggested that an apology might still carry weight, but Anderson explained that her frustration goes beyond any one person.
“Well, you are free game. When you are a public person, they say you have no right to privacy. But your darkest, deepest secrets or your tragedies in your life shouldn’t be fair game for [a] TV series. That pissed me off a little bit,” she said.
When Cohen asked whether she considered confronting Rogen or giving him a look across the room, Anderson admitted she wrestled with the discomfort.
“I mean, you’re kind of already tiptoeing around it. It’s so uncomfortable being around everybody there,” she said. “I mean a lot of those people [are] even from Malibu days, so I still don’t feel like I belong in those rooms. I feel like, you know, uncomfortable.”
Though she did not, in her words, “make a beeline for Rogen,” she said she confronted him internally, describing herself sitting in her seat and silently expressing everything she felt. Rogen has never publicly apologized. Lily James, who portrayed Anderson in the series, has since said the backlash made her rethink taking on roles based on real people.
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