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Lorde is getting warmth for watching the notorious Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee intercourse tape.
And to be trustworthy? The criticism is just not unreasonable.
Amidst dialogue of gender and her friendship with Chappell Roan, Lorde’s latest in-depth interview additionally touched upon the ’90s most notorious movie star intercourse tape.
Sexuality is an attractive factor, when personal or when shared. However Lorde is getting some backlash, and it’s not unreasonable.
Lorde attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at Metropolitan Museum of Artwork on Might 05, 2025. (Picture Credit score: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Pictures for The Met Museum/Vogue)
What did Lorde say?
28-year-old Lorde did an interview with Rolling Stone during which she teased her upcoming album, Virgin, and delved into an array of matters.
Previously, she has at instances come throughout as considerably judgmental about sexuality. Years in the past, for instance, she condemned a Selena Gomez bop as a result of she believed that it despatched a dangerous message.
(She was improper, however no matter — everyone makes errors, we guess)
For no matter cause, Lorde determined to open up about watching Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s video after a psychedelic remedy session.
Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson attend the movie premiere of “Scary Movie 3” on the AMC Theatres Avco Cinema on October 20, 2003 in Westwood, California. (Picture Credit score: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Pictures)
“I found it to be so beautiful,” Lorde inexplicably confessed. “And maybe it’s f–ked up that I watched it, but I saw two people that were so in love with each other, and there was this purity.”
She described: “They were jumping off this big boat. … They were like children. They were so free. And I just was like, ‘Whoa. Being this free comes with danger.’”
Typically, celebrities share issues in interviews that they might have, without cost, merely by no means stated aloud.
This revelation is just not getting a heat reception for 2 stable causes.
Pamela Anderson attends the thirty first annual Display Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Corridor on February 23, 2025. (Picture Credit score: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Pictures)
Why is that dangerous?
Initially, speaking concerning the former couple being “so in love with each other” and having a “purity” wants a very essential disclaimer.
In 1998, Tommy Lee allegedly attacked Pamela Anderson whereas she was holding their youthful son, Dylan Jagger Lee, who was an toddler on the time.
Lee would later plead no context to felony spousal abuse. He spent six months in jail consequently.
(Notably, older son Brandon Thomas Lee allegedly punched out his father a number of years in the past. Not all penalties are authorized!)
Pamela Anderson and her smokeshow of a son Brandon Thomas Lee arrive for the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards on the Beverly Hilton lodge in Beverly Hills, California, on January 5, 2025. (Picture Credit score: ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP through Getty Pictures)
The opposite concern on folks’s minds was the intercourse tape itself. As a result of some celebrities have completely shared their very own nudes and even sexual movies on goal.
Some have filmed their hookups aspiring to share them.
That isn’t what occurred right here. In 1995, the primary yr of Anderson and Lee’s marriage, an electrician named Rand Gauthier labored on the erstwhile couple’s home.
After Lee allegedly refused to pay him, he in flip reportedly stole a large protected from their storage.
Later, inside the protected, he found the intercourse tape. Later, Seth Warshavsky streamed the tape on-line earlier than establishing a distribution plan with Lee and Anderson.
Although they did signal an settlement, this solely led to the video turning into extra widespread — not, as Anderson apparently hoped, to limiting how many individuals noticed it.
Lorde performs at “Good Morning America’s” Summer time Live performance Collection at Rumsey Playfield, Central Park on August 20, 2021. (Picture Credit score: Arturo Holmes/Getty Pictures)
The leaking and subsequent distribution of that tape has had an enduring, adverse influence on Pamela Anderson
For Pamela Anderson, the problem wasn’t that she and Tommy Lee didn’t obtain any of the hundreds of thousands that sale of the tape reportedly made. (Per the settlement, a court docket discovered that they had been owed a considerable sum)
As an alternative, she felt nice ache and anguish over this large invasion into her privateness. The opposite painful moments of her marriage and the violence that introduced it to an finish clearly don’t assist.
Maybe Lorde doesn’t know this. Whereas this tape is, on paper, distributed with the (after the actual fact) consent of its stars, after all this anecdote is upsetting to folks.
Should you see a celeb nude or watch a intercourse tape or no matter … you don’t even have to inform folks. Particularly for those who’re not one-hundred-percent sure that it was launched, not leaked. Saying nothing is free!
