Pamela Anderson Doubles Down On #MeToo Comments: ‘It’s Just Common Sense’

Former “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson doubled down on her eyebrow-raising comments about the #MeToo movement, saying that women should know better than to go into a hotel room alone.

Anderson sat down with journalist Ronan Farrow — who broke the story that took down former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and jump-started the #MeToo movement  — for a profile piece that Interview Magazine published on Wednesday, and he asked whether she believed it was “healthy” to bring up that particular idea back in 2017.

“You told Megyn Kelly, ‘You know what you’re getting into when you go to a hotel room alone.’ Do you feel like that was a healthy thought to introduce into the dialogue at that point?” Farrow asked.

“I could even take it a step further,” was Anderson’s reply. “My mother would tell me — and I think this is the kind of feminism I grew up with — it takes two to tango … ‘If someone answers the door in a hotel robe and you’re going for an interview, don’t go in. But if you do go in, get the job.'”

“That’s a horrible thing to say but that’s how I was,” Anderson conceded, but went on to say that her own sense of self-worth had helped her to respond to situations differently than some other younger women in Hollywood might have.

“But I think a lot of people don’t have that or they weren’t taught that,” Anderson continued, saying that she was thankful for the #MeToo movement because she believed that it really had changed the dynamic.

Anderson had initially sparked backlash, as Farrow mentioned, after a 2017 interview with former Fox News host Megyn Kelly when she suggested that women should know better than to go alone to an audition in a hotel room.

“When I came to Hollywood, of course I had a lot of offers to do private auditions and things that made absolutely no sense,” Anderson told Kelly. “[It’s] just common sense: Don’t go into a hotel room alone. If someone answers the door in a bathrobe, you know, leave.”

The former Playboy playmate told Kelly that surviving sexual assault as a child may have been what made it easier for her to recognize the red flags — and had taught her never to put herself in that kind of situation again.

Los Angeles Students To Be Allowed To Carry Narcan In Schools Amid Deadly Fentanyl Crisis

Los Angeles Unified School District students can soon carry Narcan nasal spray at school in case of an opioid overdose, officials announced.

Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho reportedly told school board members Tuesday in a message that an updated policy from the district will allow students to carry the medication at a time when drug cartels are smuggling deadly fentanyl across the southern border into the United States.

Narcan “cannot be used to get high, is not addictive and does not have any effect on a person if there are no opioids in their body,” Carvalho wrote to board members, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Carvalho added that the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health “supports a clarification” in L.A. Unified policy “that would allow students to be able to carry Narcan in schools,” adding that officials would reissue an updated policy bulletin soon.

The existing district policy on administering Narcan that officials issued last year reads that the medication “must be kept at the school in a secure location accessible to designated school personnel.”

The Times reported that school board member Nick Melvoin supports the policy update.

“Narcan has the power to save lives and I’ve been working to expand its access to everyone in our school communities, including students themselves,” Melvoin said. “But the increased use of Narcan as a life-saving measure underscores the drug crisis that’s being brought to our schools.”

“We must do more to address the root causes of this crisis and that starts with education and more support for our youth,” he added.

Last year, a report showed 92% of teens who died from drug overdoses in 2021 tested positive for fentanyl in Los Angeles County, with 31 directly related to the deadly opioid.

The Drug Enforcement Administration said last December that the agency seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill every single American citizen.

Officials said the DEA had seized some 50.6 million fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl, along with more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder, with two weeks left in the calendar year 2022.

That amounts to more than 379 million lethal doses of fentanyl last year, more than enough to kill all 333 million people in the United States.

Los Angeles Unified announced last September that after student overdoses, schools would be stocked with naloxone, which medical professionals assert the supply of could make a difference in teen deaths.

District officials also said staff has been receiving training to administer the nasal spray.

Online and in-person substance abuse workshops and counseling will be offered to students and families starting in February and March, the Times reported.

“Through our existing initiatives, we will educate students and families about the safety and effectiveness of Narcan including the identification signs of an opioid overdose and the importance of alerting medical professionals when Narcan is used,” Carvalho wrote. “We remain committed to expanding access, education and training for this life-saving emergency medication.”