Pamela Anderson has revealed why she left Hollywood for her native Canada. The actress told Women's Wear Daily this week that her decision came as a way to “to really look at her life and remember who she was."
"Not what others told me I was and I didn't want anything that happened to me to define me", she further explained. "I wanted what I do to define me... all these realizations came to me in the rose garden."
The 57-year-old "Baywatch" star left America for Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada several years ago during a period of introspection. In an interview with Better Homes & Gardens in August, Anderson recalled that she "gave up at some point" and felt she "needed a change" before her move.
"I don't know what happened in the last decades, but now I feel very far from the image of who I was," she described in the publication. The "Barb Wire" star added that she also felt "very sad and alone" and "misunderstood."
"I felt like I had really failed, that my whole life had been a bunch of mistakes", she said.
Anderson didn't say at the time what mistakes she thought she had made, but she described what she thought people thought of her.
"People have this kind of soul image of me from 'Playboy' to 'Baywatch', my rock 'n' roll men and everything in between. But I also played with the image created around me. I'm glad I did all that, but I'm really happy to be where I am now."
Anderson was a sex symbol of the 90s after she rose to fame from "Baywatch" and became a Playboy magazine staple. She was involved in a leaked sex tape in 1996 with her then-husband, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, which she said was very difficult for her.