Pamela Anderson reveals she was molested as a child

Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson has shocked guests at the Cannes Film Festival by revealing for the first time that she was molested as a child, raped at the age of 12 and gang-raped just years later.

Anderson, 46, made the startling revelations during the launch of her charity, The Pamela Anderson Foundation, at the festival on Friday night.

"I did not have an easy childhood. Despite loving parents, I was molested from the age of six by a female babysitter," she revealed to the 200 gathered guests.

"I went to a friend's boyfriend's house and his older brother decided to teach me backgammon which led into a back massage, which led into rape. My first heterosexual experience.

"He was 25 years old and I was 12."

The Playboy cover girl then added that a school boyfriend: "decided it would be funny to gang-rape me with six friends. I wanted off this earth."

After the moving revelations, a guest was quoted by the Mail Online as saying that "no one was expected a speech like that, Pamela was so brave."

Source: Mail Online, The Mirror, Guardian

Author: Natasha Lee, Approving editor: Matthew Henry