Pamela Anderson: on her relationship with Julian Assange

SCOTT Morrison has taken to the airways to respond to calls for action from former Baywatch bombshell Pamela Anderson.

The one-time Playboy Playmate appeared in an interview on 60 Minutes last night in which she opened up about her relationship with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

After initial confusion about the identity of the Prime Minister, the Hollywood star urged Morrison to intervene to free Assange from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.

Anderson addressed the PM: Defend your friend, and get Julian his passport back, and take him back to Australia and be proud of him. And throw him a parade when he gets home.

On Gold Coast radio 1029 Hot Tomato today, Morrison made light of the attention he was getting from the blonde beauty.

Ive had plenty of mates whove asked me if they can be my special envoy to sort the issue out with Pamela Anderson, ScoMo said with a laugh.

He continued (this time in serious mode): Putting that to one side our position on that hasnt changed.

The PM not surprisingly rejected a welcome home parade for Assange.

In a letter sent last week, Anderson also urged the PM to ban live animal exports an issue Morrison says his government is acting on.

She has raised some other important issues about live exports. We just had the Moss Review back. Its a bit of a hard policy topic but we are acting on that with an inspector general and an animal welfare branch sitting within the dept of ag. There are some pretty serious issues going on with live sheep and we are acting on them.

During last night's interview, the US-Canadian actress described her situation with Assange as a romantic struggle.

The star is regularly photographed entering and leaving the Ecuadorean Embassy where Assange is holed up.

Anderson, a longtime animal rights activist, said she arranged a meeting with Assange just over two years ago.

I wanted to meet him because I wanted to ask him how to be a more effective activist. Of course, I was fascinated with him, she said.

In the interview at her home in the south of France, Anderson said she was valuable to the Melbourne-born Assange because I think people think hes a computer screen and I humanise him.

She said she visited Assange for three to four hours at a time.

Im exhausted when I leave but Ive got a stack of notes, she laughed.

When asked directly by reporter Liam Bartlett what sort of relationship she had with Assange, Anderson replied: We like to call it a romantic struggle. It is to educate the world.

The enigmatic Anderson said the pairs relationship wasnt about holding hands.

We dont have a romantic relationship like that, but I feel very close to him. And I feel closer to him than a lot of people have and he trusts me.

Now living in Cassis in the south of France with her boyfriend, French World Cup soccer player Adil Rami, Anderson admits to having a famously chaotic romantic history, saying she seems to pick the same kind of men.

She married rocker Tommy Lee she famously wore a bikini to the ceremony in 1995 before a nasty split in 1998. The couple had two sons together, Brandon and Dylan.

In 2006, Anderson married Kid Rock, but they couple split shortly after.

The following year, Anderson married Rick Salomon but they called it quits months after. Six years later, Anderson and Salomon remarried in 2014 but divorced in 2015.

I mean, I love to be married, Anderson told 60 Minutes.

The marriage part is difficult, but I love the weddings I think, yeah, maybe once should have been enough for me.

The stunning star, who has graced the pages of Playboy numerous times, defended the controversial magazine as empowering but dismissed the Me Too movement.

Im a feminist, but I think that this third wave of feminism is a bore, she said.

I think it paralyses men. I think that this Me Too movement is a bit too much for me. Ill probably get killed for saying that.

Referring to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Anderson appeared to defend the disgraced mogul. She said mother had taught her dont go to a hotel with a stranger.

If someone answers a door in a bathrobe and its supposed to be a business meeting, maybe I should go with somebody else, Anderson told 60 Minutes.

I think that some things are just common sense. Or if you go in, get the job, she laughed. Im Canadian, Im going to speak my mind, okay?

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