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Pamela Anderson’s new memoir tells her story, “beginning to end.” (Photo: REUTERS\/Eric Gaillard)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Pamela Anderson’s upcoming memoir is about much more than a sex tape.<\/p>\n

in a <\/em>New York Times<\/em> <\/em>piece, she speaks about her book, Love, Pamela<\/em>, which come out Jan. 31 \u2014 the same day her Netflix doc, Pamela, A Love Story<\/em>, <\/em>drops on Netflix.<\/p>\n

“Beginning to end, my first memory to my last,” is what is included in the book, she told the outlet.<\/p>\n

As in, it’s about more than the 54-minute home video she and then-husband Tommy Lee made as newlyweds, circa 1995, which was stolen from a safe, edited down to the eight-minute sex scenes and distributed, via VHS, in the early days of the world wide web. The pair didn’t make money off the tape.<\/p>\n

She’s said that when Hulu released Pam & Tommy<\/em> last year, telling the story of the tape with Lily James playing her and Sebastian Stan playing the M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce drummer, she thought, “It was already hurtful enough the first time. It’s like one of those things where you’re going, ‘Really ? People are still capitalizing off that thing?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Anderson did not watch the series \u2014 nor did she reply to James, who sent her a handwritten letter asking if they could speak and telling her she wanted to honor her in the role. the Playboy<\/em> model and Baywatch star, now 55, actually didn’t even read James’s letter. It notes “a scanned copy of that letter still sits in [Anderson\u2019s] inbox somewhere, unread.”<\/p>\n

Lily James as Anderson for Hulu’s <\/strong>Pam & Tommy<\/em><\/strong> last year:<\/strong><\/p>\n

As for the narrative that the Hulu show would be correcting the historical narrative on Anderson’s behalf \u2014 when she was made into a punchline for the tape while her ex was seen as a masculine hero \u2014 she said, “I mean, I’m probably a case study for any feminist.”<\/p>\n

But she did her own deep dive into her life to tell her story for the first time. It came about after she considered posting parts of her story on her website or just for her sons with Lee, Brandon and Dylan, to read. But Brandon, in the wake of Pam & Tommy<\/em>, urged her to publish it and “I work for him,” she joked. He is a co-producer on the doc for which she turned over her home videos, without reviewing them, and diaries.<\/p>\n