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"how the f*** are you going to romanticize what you KNOW to beryllium revenge porn?”
If you request reminding, Pam and Tommy’s satellite was rocked erstwhile they discovered that their backstage enactment portion had been stolen alongside different contents of a harmless that they kept wrong their location backmost successful the ‘90s.
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The footage had been captured connected a vessel during their honeymoon, and some stars did everything they could to get the portion backmost astatine the time.
Despite this, it ended up being distributed globally without their consent. In 1997, an online radical obtained the intimate footage and began streaming it online, successful summation to selling a carnal VHS of the film.
And implicit the years, Pamela, present 57, has ever been incredibly vocal astir however violating and distressing this full ordeal was for her.
In fact, conscionable 2 years ago, Pamela said successful her documentary, Pamela, A Love Story: "If anyone watches it, if anyone buys it, if anyone sells it, it's conscionable pathetic. You can't enactment a monetary fig connected the magnitude of symptom and suffering it caused.”
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Reflecting connected however the portion had impacted her beingness implicit the past almost-three decades, Pamela added: “I was the punchline of jokes connected a batch of speech shows. It was ace humiliating.”
"If [the public] autumn successful emotion with you 1 mode that's it…” she began. “After that, it conscionable solidified the cartoon representation of me, and you go a character. I deliberation that was the deterioration of immoderate representation I had."
So, with Pamela’s feelings successful mind, radical were stunned erstwhile Lorde made immoderate beauteous bizarre comments astir watching the movie aft having a psychedelic therapy session.
“She’s not definite why, but she watched the full thing,” the Rolling Stone illustration read, with Lorde being quoted arsenic saying: “I recovered it to beryllium truthful beautiful. And possibly it’s fucked up that I watched it, but I saw 2 radical that were truthful successful emotion with each other, and determination was this purity."
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“They were jumping disconnected this large boat.… They were similar children. They were truthful free,” Lorde added astatine the time. “And I conscionable was like: ‘Whoa. Being this escaped comes with danger.’”
Needless to say, these comments did not spell down well, and Lorde was harshly criticized connected X.
One viral tweet referred to Lorde by her existent name, Ella, and read: “A stolen portion that’s fundamentally revenge porn and you’re utilizing it arsenic portion of immoderate bullshit ‘psychedelic therapy sessions’ lmfao you’re not an alty angsty teen anymore, Ella, you’re conscionable an big loser.”
But it looks similar Lorde was unaffected by this backlash, arsenic she seemingly doubles down connected her stance connected the enactment portion connected her caller album, Virgin, which was released connected Friday. In “Current Affairs,” Lorde sings astir the distress she feels during an illicit relationship, with the verse alluding to Pamela and Tommy really seeming beauteous retired of spot wrong the discourse of the remainder of the song.
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Partway done the track, Lorde sings: “All unsocial successful my country / Watching the portion of their honeymoon / On the boat, it was axenic and existent / Then the movie came out.”
Sharing a screenshot of the lyrics to X, a tweet with 66,000 likes astatine the clip of penning simply reads: “Not this crap again,” with others speedy to hold successful the quote-tweets.
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“what the fuck is her occupation similar genuinely,” a fashionable effect reads, portion idiosyncratic other wrote: “she is virtually glorifying and admitting to watching revenge porn. one tin ne'er ever perceive to her euphony the aforesaid way.”
“how the fuck are you going to romanticize what you KNOW to beryllium revenge porn,” 1 much asked.
“the conception of your sextape leaking & a instrumentalist enjoying it portion going ‘aww it was astir apt truthful beauteous and axenic successful the infinitesimal and present it’s retired determination for a clump of freaks to watch,’” another wrote, earlier pursuing up with: “‘on the vessel it was axenic and true’ similar she was determination i’m successful tears 😭😭😭”
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