Pamela Anderson ‘had depression for a couple of decades’ after ‘Baywatch’

Pamela Anderson said at the Zurich Film Festival, pictured here, that she thinks she “had depression for a couple of decades.” Getty Images for ZFF

Pamela Anderson believes she suffered from depression for “a couple of decades.”

The actress opened up about her life and career during an appearance at the Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland, where she was honored with the event’s Golden Eye Award on Saturday.

Anderson revealed she barely remembers much of her life in the spotlight after shooting to fame on hit TV show “Baywatch.”

“It feels like I went from ‘Baywatch’ to Broadway,” Anderson, seen here on “Baywatch” in the ’90s, said on Saturday. Fremantle Media/Shutterstock She feels like her career is a “big blur.” Fremantle Media/Shutterstock

“I look at it now, and it feels like I went from ‘Baywatch’ to Broadway. I don’t know what happened in between. It’s all a big blur,” she said, according to Variety.

“I am just happy to be here, in this moment, because I think I have had depression for a couple of decades.”

Anderson made her Broadway debut in 2022 playing Roxie Hart in “Chicago” for eight weeks, and she has gone on to land a number of film roles, including “The Last Showgirl,” “Rosebush Pruning” and a role in the new “Naked Gun” movie, which is due for release next year.

Anderson, shown here on Friday, believes her 2023 Netflix documentary helped revive her career. Getty Images for ZFF “It’s great to be a part of pop culture, but it’s a blessing and a curse,” she said. Getty Images for ZFF

The star explained she is thrilled to be busy with work again and believes her 2023 Netflix documentary, “Pamela, a Love Story,” helped revive her career after “The Last Showgirl” director Gia Coppola watched it.

She added, “That’s how Gia saw me. I always knew I was capable of more. It’s great to be a part of pop culture, but it’s a blessing and a curse. People fall in love with you because of a bathing suit. It has taken a long time, but I am here.”

Anderson previously told Collider: “I think timing is everything. I thought I was never gonna get the chance to do anything like this.

Anderson, pictured here in 1992, said, “People fall in love with you because of a bathing suit.” Getty Images The actress, shown above in 1992, believes it took “a long time” for her to get respect. Getty Images

“I kind of thought, ‘Oh, well, that’s what people think of me. I’m just gonna go back to my farm, make jam and that’s it. I’ll figure out another way to make my life beautiful.’

“But the documentary came out, the book came out and Gia saw the documentary. She must be some kind of master or prophet or something, but she was so wonderful to send the script to me, and I read it and I was like, ‘Oh God, this is that thing. This is that thing when people read a script and they really realize they’re the only ones that can do it. They have to do it. It’s life and death.’

“And I felt that way, and I get chills even thinking about it.”