Pamela Anderson Compares the Playboy Mansion to College: It Has Art, Sex and Intellectuals

The former Baywatch actress dishes on how life was at Hugh Hefner's house

By Samantha Schnurr Mar 02, 2016 9:11 PMTags
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Pamela Anderson is mourning the loss of Playboy as she knew it. 

As the model to appear on the infamous magazine's cover 14 times, the 48-year-old blond bombshell is feeling bittersweet about dramatic changes the brand has undergone in the last months—including nude photographs removed from the magazine and the Playboy Mansion going up for sale. 

"I understand why they've done this but it was bittersweet," she said on The Wendy Williams Show. "It was a lifestyle. The Playboy Mansion was my university. It was full of intellectuals, sex, rock and roll, arts, all of the important stuff!"

While we'd love to attend a college as cool as the one Anderson is imagining,she does admit it was quite the place for baby-making. "I'm sure one of my sons was conceived there," she previously revealed in the final nude issue of Playboy. 

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Though she has admitted to a new mystery man in her life who "gets me like never before," the star and her ex-husband Tommy Lee have been trading in concerts and photoshoots for college meetings with one of their sons, Dylan Jagger, 18.

"We're actually very good at co-parenting and we're strict with our children and we want them to be well-educated," she described on the show. "You should see Tommy in some of these university meetings. Its pretty funny to see him insist on all of this education."

While her babies are no longer children, Anderson's professional baby, Baywatch, has also grown up. After nearly two decades since its 2001 television finale, it has been resurrected for a 2017 silver screen reboot. While she has been courted to join the show, Anderson would have to star for a smaller price than she's willing to accept.

"They made me an offer to come on it to it, but it was like half of what they would pay me on an episodic thing," she told Wendy Williams on the show.

"I would love to be part of it because I think it's great that it's finally happening. It's a compliment that they want me on it so bad, but I've been doing a lot of movies, working and doing real character roles. I would love to do it, they have cute ideas, but they can offer me something respectable."