Lorde Receives Backlash For Calling Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee’s Intercourse Tape ‘Lovely’

Whereas talking with Rolling Stone for its June 2025 cowl story, the singer shared that she watched the previous couple’s unauthorizedly launched tape, and known as it “lovely.” Lorde, 28, admitted that she seemed up the video after a psychedelic remedy session, noting that she’s undecided why she watched it in its entirety.

“I discovered it to be so lovely. And possibly it is f–ked up that I watched it, however I noticed two folks that have been so in love with one another, and there was this purity,” Lorde mentioned. “They have been leaping off this large boat.… They have been like youngsters. They have been so free. And I simply was like, “Whoa. Being this free comes with hazard.'”

Anderson and Lee’s intercourse tape was notoriously leaked to the general public in 1995. The previous has spoken out towards the unauthorized launch over time, calling it “hurtful,” and has mentioned she’s by no means seen it.

In her 2023 memoir, Love, Pamela, Anderson wrote that the intercourse tape leak took a toll on her marriage to Lee, shortly earlier than the beginning of their sons in 1996 and 1997. The breaking level of their marriage got here after Lee assaulted her in 1998. Lee was arrested for spousal abuse and served 4 months of a six-month sentence. The couple subsequently divorced.

Following her revelation that she not solely watched the intercourse tape, however discovered it “lovely,” Lorde was hit with backlash on social media, with customers taking to X to slam the Grammy winner for her weird feedback.

“Lorde is low key a hypocrite for this bc she dragged Lana for ‘romanticizing abuse’ and now she’s reframing an abusive relationship as being ‘lovely’ regardless of the actual fact Pamela Anderson has repeatedly acknowledged how a lot that relationship/her intercourse tape being leaked traumatized her,” a consumer wrote.

“Truly lorde does deserve the lashings…,” one other added. “Pamela has spoken out so many occasions about how violated she felt and nonetheless feels about it however I suppose that doesn’t matter as a result of it’s lovely to lorde..? A pretentious joke.”

“why are we asking LORDE what she thinks about Pam and Tommy??? This ‘lovely vid of two folks in love’ ought to’ve been saved non-public and nonetheless is a violation in the direction of Pamela who did not deserve the scrutiny she bought from the general public eye for it. we’re glamorizing the fallacious issues,” a 3rd fan mentioned, whereas one other consumer wrote, “precisely that is gross why are you publicly speaking about watching somebody’s leaked intercourse tape that brought on them an insane quantity of trauma and humiliation….”

In the meantime, one other consumer reshared Rolling Stone’s X publish, and shared a screenshot of a quote from Anderson’s 2023 Netflix documentary, Pamela: A Love Story, through which the Baywatch alum mentioned, “If anybody watches it, if anybody buys it, if anybody sells it, it is simply pathetic. You’ll be able to’t put a financial quantity on the quantity of ache and struggling it brought on.”

“Lorde, I simply cannot defend your ass no extra,” the individual wrote alongside the screenshot.

Nevertheless, these weren’t the one feedback from Lorde’s Rolling Stone interview that raised eyebrows.

Elsewhere through the dialog, the “What Was That” singer shared that she went off contraception on the finish of 2023, and had stopped taking the contraceptive tablet for the primary time since she was 15.

“I’ve now come to see [my decision] as possibly some quasi right-wing programming,” Lorde mentioned. “However I hadn’t ovulated in 10 years. And after I ovulated for the primary time, I can not describe to you the way loopy it was. Probably the greatest medicine I’ve ever completed.”

“I felt like stopping taking my contraception, I had reduce some kind of wire between myself and this regulated femininity,” she added. “It sounds loopy, however I felt that unexpectedly, I used to be off the map of femininity. And I completely believed that that allowed issues to open up.”

Some on-line took challenge with Lorde alluding that her determination to go off the contraception tablet was as a consequence of being influenced by right-wing misinformation.

“I believe it’s extremely fascinating how Lorde prefaces her optimistic experiences going off contraception with a caveat that it was as a consequence of right-wing influences,” a consumer wrote.

“posting about lorde going off contraception with out mentioning she was influenced by proper wing disinformation is a alternative… this entire article/rollout is so 🫠 ,” one other added.

“she actually awoke that day and mentioned let’s examine how far again i can set feminism in a single interview,” a 3rd consumer wrote alongside Rolling Stone’s X publish about her feedback.

Regardless of praising the “drug” of being off contraception, Lorde mentioned she later confronted different challenges, revealing she was identified with premenstrual dysphoric ­dysfunction (PMDD.) The situation causes extreme irritability, melancholy, or nervousness within the week or two earlier than your interval begins.

In accordance with Rolling Stone, Lorde subsequently went again on contraception, choosing an IUD quite than a tablet. The duvet of her upcoming album, Virgin, options an X-ray of her inserted IUD.