Pamela Anderson spent ‘everything I had in my bank’ treating a fatal diagnosis she got in the 90s: ‘I was lucky’

In the 1990s, Pamela Anderson was diagnosed with hepatitis C, a condition her doctor said would be fatal within about 10 years. She spent all her savings on treatment for the disease, which she has described as making her feel like "damaged goods." Anderson has since survived and recovered from the diagnosis, an outcome she has characterized as fortunate.