Pamela Anderson reveals childhood sexual abuse

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The former model and Baywatch actress opened up about traumatic childhood experiences during launch of her animal rights foundation, The Pamela Anderson Foundation, during the Cannes Film Festival in France. She admitted that she was molested at the age of six, raped when she was 12-year-old.

She further went on record to say that her boyfriend gang-raped her with six friends when she was just in High School. She also  detailed her difficult home life, explaining that her father was an alcoholic, while her mother tried to hold down two jobs.

Ms Anderson said she had found solace from her traumatic childhood in her love for animals, which were “my only real friends until I had children”.The Pamela Anderson Foundation is dedicated to human, animal and environmental rights