Pamela Anderson Reflects on Why She Moved Back to Canada From Hollywood, Wanted to ‘Remember Who I Was'
The model, actress and author relocated back to her home country in 2020 to reconnect with her roots.
In 2020, Pamela Anderson made a life-changing move from Hollywood to Canada to rediscover herself.
“I guess [it was] a homecoming, you could say, to really kind of look at my life and remember who I was — not what other people were telling me I was,” she told Women's Wear Daily.
Anderson explained that she was looking for a new beginning after years of life as an actress and model in L.A.
"And I didn’t want anything that had happened to me to define me," Anderson added. "I wanted what I do to define me."
Anderson chronicled her new life in the 2023 Netflix documentary Pamela, a Love Story, where she was joined by her sons, Brandon, 27 and Dylan, 26, whom she shares with rock musician Tommy Lee, in her lakefront home in Ladysmith, British Columbia.
Anderson moved to Los Angeles in 1989, the same year that she appeared as the cover star of the October 1989 issue of Playboy. The opportunity was Anderson's modeling breakthrough, as she'd frequently appear on the cover of the publication. Her acting career also took off thanks to her roles in Baywatch, Stacked, and the films Barb Wire, Naked Souls and more.
"Coming back to my childhood home has revealed a very magical path to me,” Anderson told Better Homes & Gardens in a September. "It’s a romantic way of living in nature with compassion and sensuality."
Anderson next appears in Gia Coppola's new film The Last Showgirl.
