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The End of My Career

I Finally Interviewed Pamela Anderson

And She Put My Journalistic Ethics to the Test

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Joel Stein
Aug 22, 2025
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YOU Magazine 20th July 2025 Pamela Anderson & Liam Neeson

Occasionally a magazine will ask me to write a celebrity profile, unaware that it’s 2025. But never before has that celebrity been Pamela Anderson.

I have been an admirer of Pamela Anderson ever since I had a penis. I’ve seen her at two different restaurants (diner in Malibu; NoMad in New York) but didn’t have the guts to talk to her. So when I was asked to interview her and Liam Neeson for a British magazine which is called “You” despite the fact that that’s not who reads it, I said, “Why does Liam Neeson have to be there?”

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