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Pamela Andersonis enjoying the support of her sons.
“Your positivity is so inspiring. I’m so proud of you,” Brandon, 26, wrote. “I’m so happy the world is finally getting to know the REAL YOU.”
“Love you!!! Keep being unapologetically YOU!” Dylan, 25, added alongside a white heart emoji.
Speaking to PEOPLE during the Jan. 30 premiere ofthe documentary, Anderson, 55, revealed that going back in time was an essential part of telling her story.
“Of course it’s emotional for me,” Anderson told PEOPLE. “It’s just all these wonderful memories and hard memories too. But I wanted to go back into those feelings and feel those feelings.”
Brandon Thomas Lee, Pamela Anderson and Dylan Jagger Lee.John Salangsang/Shutterstock
She added, “That’s how I wrote my book. I wanted to go throughall the chapters of my lifeand feel those feelings. It was hard. It was very hard.”
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“I think Brandon was a little emotional. Dylan was a little emotional when he saw it,” she says. “Brandon’s seen a ton of it. He’s been doing this for two years, so this has been a long process and as a mom, younever want to burden your kids. But this has kind of been a fun family project, but it had a lot of emotion tied to it.”
Pamela Anderson.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
It “follows the trajectory of Pamela Anderson’s life and career from small-town girl to international sex symbol, actress, activist and doting mother.”
The characterization of the Canadian-born staras the latter is nothing new to Brandon.
“I’ve known her my whole life, but when I think of my mom, I think of an incredibly well-read, intelligent, well-spoken, kind-hearted, passionate person, and I just think the world has never really seen her like that,” he shared with PEOPLE.
Pamela Anderson and ex-husband Tommy Lee at the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Event Honoring Tom Ford.Giulio Marcocchi/Getty Images
“(People) mayhave noticed her looksor her compassion or things like that, but at the end of the day, I think people haven’t given her enough credit or really another chance to recapture herself before a lot of these really awful things happened to her,” he added
“I’ve always seen her as an incredibly talented and powerful woman with so much potential, and I still think I see her the exact same way.”
During an exclusive interview with PEOPLE on Jan. 15, Andersonopened up furtherabout her healing process.
“[There’s] a little bit of anxiety before it comes out, because this has been a year, basically, of therapy, going through my life from my first memory to my last memory,” the 55-year-old said of writingLove, Pamela. “I’m really proud of it. It is something I wrote every word of. I didn’t have a collaborator. I didn’t have any ghostwriter, nothing.”
Ultimately, the mom-of-two said it was her sons who “encouraged me to tell my story.”
source: people.com
