Pamela Anderson Speaks Out on Overcoming Hepatitis C in Powerful Speech at amfAR Venice: ‘I’m Not a Victim. I’m a Victor’

By Ellise Shafer

Ellise Shafer

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When Pamela Anderson was diagnosed with hepatitis C in the late ’90s, there was no cure.

“It was a death sentence. That’s what my doctor told me — that I probably had around 10 years to live,” the “Baywatch” star recalled in a moving speech at the amfAR Gala in Venice. “I’m sure that colored and corrupted my decisions. It was not fear of death, but fear of what might happen to my young children. It turned my life inside out.”

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