Pamela Anderson Reveals Years of Sexual Abuse: 'I was Gang Raped and Molested as a Kid'

Pamela Anderson is sharing some secrets about her childhood.

While taking the stage at The Pamela Anderson Foundation's event at the Cannes Film Festival, the former "Baywatch" actress revealed that she was sexually abuse throughout her childhood, starting at age six when she was molested by a female babysitter.

According to the Mirror, in her speech, Anderson said she had "loving parents" while growing up in British Columbia, Canada, but "did not have an easy childhood."

Anderson acknowledged that her troubled past had encouraged her love of nature and at the "risk of over-exposing [herself], again, or being inappropriate," she admitted the crowd that at the age of 12 she was gang raped by a group of young men.

"I went to a friend's boyfriend's house," she said. "And his older brother decided to teach me backgammon, which led into a back massage, which led into rape - my first sexual experience. He was 25 years old and I was 12."

Anderson,46, added that an ex-boyfriend and six of his friends gang raped her when she was a teenager. This is the first time Anderson has gone into detail about the abusive incidents.

"Needless to say, I had a hard time trusting humans," Anderson said. "I just wanted off this earth."

Anderson said she never told her mother about the molestation and rape because "I couldn't (bear) to give her any more disruptive information.

"I couldn't break her heart any more than it was breaking," she stated.

Anderson added that the past assaults led to her love of animals, which is the main inspiration behind her organization, The Pamela Anderson Foundation, which will support "organizations and individuals on the front lines protecting the environment, animal rights and human rights."

"My loyalty remained with the animal kingdom," she said. "I vowed to protect them and only them. I prayed to the whales with my feet in the ocean. My only real friends, till I had children."

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