“Hep C has turned my life upside down. Sentence of death”

Pamela Anderson gave an exciting speech at the amfAR gala in Venice, where she talked about the diagnosis she received in the 1990s: hepatitis C that, at the time, had no cure.

“It was a death sentence. That’s what my doctor told me, that I probably had about ten years to live,” recalled the star of “Baywatch”.

“ I'm sure that influenced and distorted my decisions. It was not fear of death, but fear of what might happen to my little children. This turned my life upside down,” he added. 

In 2011, the cure for this viral infection was discovered and in 2015, the actress was “free from the disease”. The artist also confessed that “he spent all his money on treatment”.

Pamela was honored with the AmfAR Courage Award, a non-profit organization dedicated to the fight against AIDS.

“ But my experience of shame and guilt was also an unconscious journey. It stays with me, haunts me. And as well as the sexual abuse I suffered as a child, it seemed something engraved on my forehead: “damaged goods”. And I presented myself like this”, added the actress.

“I am not a victim, I am a winner. I'm strong and capable, more now than I could ever imagine... I am not the damsel in danger, no matter how easy it is to play this role”, he concluded. 

Learn more about Hepatitis C here.