Pamela Anderson Says She Was Raped + Molested During Childhood

Pamela Anderson gave a chilling and emotional speech at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend, revealing that when she was a child she was raped by a boyfriend's older brother and molested by her babysitter.

Anderson gave the speech to explain why she was beginning the Pamela Anderson Foundation, a group she formed to help with human rights, animal rights and the environment. "I did not have an easy childhood. Despite loving parents, I was molested from age 6 to 10 by my female babysitter," she told the assembled crowd via Us Weekly.

She continued, "I went to a friend's boyfriend's house and when she was busy the boyfriend's older brother decided he would teach me backgammon which led in to a back massage, which led in to rape. My first heterosexual experience. He was 25 years old, I was 12."

"My first boyfriend in grade nine decided it would be funny to gang rape me with six of his friends. Needless to say I had a hard time trusting humans and I just wanted off this earth."

As a result, Anderson turned to nature. "My affinity with animals saved me, they came to me naturally. The trees spoke to me, I wasn't sure why I was alive, a burning question, a quest. My loyalty remains with the animal kingdom. I vowed to protect them and only them."

"I prayed to whales with my feet in the ocean, my only real friends until I had children. Then I realized humanity was suffering and our children were born perfect."