@kristenvannest: Pamela Anderson has done Broadway, won critical acclaim in The Last Showgirl, rebuilt her entire career on her own terms, refused to wear makeup at the Oscars while everyone lost their minds about it, and is widely considered one of the great Hollywood redemption arcs of this decade. And now Tom Cruise has reportedly called her personally to say he’s impressed and there is “definitely a spark.” This woman survived Tommy Lee, a stolen s*x tape that was distributed without her consent, a Hulu series made about her trauma also without her consent, four marriages, and thirty years of being treated as a punchline by an industry that owed her everything. She came out the other side as an acclaimed actress and a genuinely dignified person. Tom Cruise, meanwhile, has been married three times to women who were all approximately 33 years old when he divorced them, is a prominent Scientologist, and has exes who have been notably quiet in ways that Hollywood has always found suspicious. One Daily Mail commenter put it plainly: “She can do better than that nowadays. Doesn’t need to join his club.” Pamela Anderson did not survive all of that to end up in a relationship with a man whose previous partners aged out of the arrangement on a schedule you could set your watch to. She is making room for love. We are making room for concern. ❌

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