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During Pamela Anderson’s rocky marriage to Tommy Lee, the two got tattoos at the same time and even though artists are always supposed to use clean needles, Anderson said she was inked with the same needle that had been used on Lee. Unfortunately, Lee allegedly hadn’t told his wife that he had hepatitis C, which meant that Anderson contracted the disease, which she revealed in 2002.
Anderson later talked to Esquire about getting the diagnosis, recalling, “My doctor says, ‘You have hepatitis C.’ And I go, ‘Okay, how do I get rid of it?’ And he’s like, ‘You can’t. This is what you’re going to die from.'”
“And then the doctor says, ‘Do you know how you got it?’ I said no,” she continued. “And he said, ‘Your husband never told you he had it?’ … Obviously, it’s a hard thing to tell someone, but I wish he could have had the nerve to tell me. Obviously, his ego was more important than my life.”
Despite the fact that Anderson was told that the disease was fatal, the star took to Instagram in November 2015 to share in a now-deleted post that she had been cured. “I just found out #nomorehepc,” she wrote (via People). “I pray anyone living with Hep C can qualify or afford treatment. It will be more available soon. I know treatment is hard to get still…#dontlosehope.”
Written by: Nicki
