Pamela Anderson has revealed her latest remarks about Tim Allen, just days after the comedian alleged he exposed her on the set of “Home Improvement.”
On Sunday, Variety released an excerpt from Anderson’s upcoming memoir “Love, Pamela.” Anderson said Allen flashed her on the first day of filming the popular sitcom in 1991. .
The “Baywatch” actor further addressed the situation on Thursday, telling Entertainment Tonight that Allen “had no bad intentions” and that it’s his job as a comedian to “cross the line.” rice field.
“I can’t imagine anyone trying to post a #MeToo,” Anderson told Entertainment Tonight in a text message. “It’s a new world.”
Allen refuted Anderson’s account in a statement provided to the Los Angeles Times on Monday, claiming that “it never happened.”
“I would never do something like that,” said Allen, who starred in “Home Improvement” as “Tool Time” host and handyman Tim Taylor.
After playing “Tool Time Girl” Lisa for the first two seasons of the show, Anderson left the show to work on “Baywatch.” At the time of the incident, she was 23 and Allen was 37.
Anderson’s comments on Thursday build on her previous skepticism of the #MeToo movement.
“There are good things about it, but as I always say, ‘Action is more powerful than hashtags,'” she told The Times in a 2019 interview. … We are allowed to talk about abuse in our lives, so we must act now. … I have two boys and I am always afraid they will become paralyzed.”
She continued to call herself a feminist, but added that she was “not a real fan” of third-wave feminism.
In Anderson’s long-awaited memoir, out Tuesday, she writes that Allen was walking out of her dressing room when she exposed herself.
“He opened his robe and gave me a quick flash—I was completely naked underneath,” she wrote. now we are equallaughed eerily. ”
As Anderson’s allegations against Allen swirled online this week, an old clip from 1992 resurfaced showing Allen flashing “Home Improvement” co-star Patricia Richardson while filming the ABC sitcom.
This video is part of a blobbed episode of the second season of “Home Improvement.” During a scene shot in front of a studio audience, Allen walks around the set in a kilt. That quip drew laughter from the audience.
At that point, Allen lifts the quilt toward Richardson, who drops his jaw in shock as the audience laughs louder. not.
Richardson told TMZ this week that he was genuinely shocked by the impromptu moment, but that “he was properly dressed under it.”
“I was just surprised that he lifted the kilt instead of the guy in boxer shorts,” she said.
