Pamela Anderson and son Brandon Lee claim she never saw a dime from the sex ... trends now

Pamela Anderson's privacy was invaded when a sex tape she made with her then-husband Tommy Lee was stolen and distributed without their consent in the 1990s. 

And now the 55-year-old actress and icon has reiterated her claims that she and her ex never saw any money from the widely circulated sex tape.

While chatting with her and Tommy's son Brandon Lee, 26, at a New York City screening of the new Netflix documentary Pamela, A Love Story, she said that people have refused to believe that she could have never been compensated for the tape despite its popularity.

'I don’t think anyone wanted to believe it,' she said at a talk back, according to IndieWire. 'Plus, we just let it go.'

According to the actress, she and Tommy decided it was best for her mental and physical health to give up on being fairly compensated. 

'After the depositions and all this craziness — and I was pregnant with Dylan — we didn’t wanna put any more stress on the baby. Tommy and I just said, "F*** them, karma, whatever," we just left it. We really just tried to leave it in the past. 

'So we didn’t do a press tour talking about what money we didn’t get. That was just dirty money. We didn’t want it. And we ended up OK,' she said.

Pam's claim that she never received any payment is surprising, considering that she and Tommy were victorious in multiple lawsuits over the sex tape.

However, the distributor may have never paid up despite being ordered to pay the couple, as it went out of business.

The tape was stolen in 1995 by Rand Gauthier, an electrician who had done work on the couple's house. After Tommy refused to pay him for the work he had done, he stole a massive safe from their garage.

It was only after he had a chance to go through the contents that he learned that the footage from the sex tape had been locked away in the safe. 

The tape was later obtained by Seth Warshavsky, who initially streamed the video online, before trying to set up a distribution agreement with Pamela and Tommy.

The couple eventually signed the agreement to cut down on their stresses over lawsuits, but the agreement — which Pam reportedly thought would confine distribution to online — ended up being much broader than she believed.