Everything Pamela Anderson Has Said About Moving Back to Canada

Pamela Anderson exudes beauty and grace both on screen and at her stunning home in her native country.

The actress prefers her quiet life on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, to which she moved amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Her journey back to the area was decades in the making.

Anderson grew up in Canada but relocated to Los Angeles in 1990 to pursue modeling and acting. Ultimately, following a brief stint in France, she was drawn back to Canada around 2020, where she renovated and restored her family’s farm property into the haven that it is today.

“I bought this place over 30 years ago from my grandmother and she lived out her life here so she could distribute her wealth amongst her kids,” Anderson told CR Fashion Book in March 2024. “And then I was just living my wild life out there in L.A. and all over the place. I finally came back during COVID and thought, ‘Oh, this is the time.’”

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Anderson’s love for gardening, baking, entertaining and embracing nature has grown since moving into her whimsical home.

Keep scrolling for Anderson’s quotes on her life since moving back to Canada.

On Finding Comfort

“I’d never been on a plane before when I left this island. You know, I left the island, and I went to Vancouver, and then I moved to L.A., and then I went around the world and South of France for a year before I moved home,” Anderson said in November 2022, per The Canadian Press.

She continued, “I was restless when I was here. And I had to learn how to be comfortable, just relaxing and enjoying and putting all my creative juices into this project, making this an art project, listening to other people’s ideas.”

Anderson realized that the solution to some of her problems was simple: she “just needed some Canadian roots.”

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On Her Homecoming

Anderson knew she would one day return home to Canada.

“I always planned on coming home to renovate this place. And it’s fun,” she told CR Fashion Book. “There’s a lot of memories … It’s very much like a homecoming. I was very close with my grandfather, and his energy is all around me. He taught me how the trees spoke to him. And so, it’s very mythological, very primitive.”

On Finding Herself

The Baywatch alum wanted to begin a new chapter in her personal life and career, prompting her move from L.A.

“I guess a homecoming, you could say, to really kind of look at my life and remember who I was — not what other people were telling me I was — and I didn’t want anything that had happened to me define me,” Anderson told Women’s Wear Daily in October 2024. “I wanted what I do to define me … all these realizations came to me in the rose garden.”

On Making a Big Change

Anderson spoke about a transitional period in her life two years after her divorce from Dan Hayhurst. The pair were married from 2020 to 2022.

“A few years back, I kind of gave up at some point and needed a change,” the Naked Gun actress told Better Homes & Gardens in August 2024. “I thought, ‘Well, I guess that’s just what people think of me.’ I was not in a good space when I moved back to Canada. I don’t know what happened over the last few decades, but I feel now so far removed from the image of who I was.”

She continued, “I felt very sad and lonely. I didn’t feel just misunderstood, I felt like I had really screwed up, that my whole life was a bundle of mistakes. I was hard on myself, and I thought I put my family through a lot and put my kids through so much.” (Anderson shares kids Brandon and Dylan Lee with ex-husband Tommy Lee.)

“I came to a point where I decided to move home and disappear and get into my garden,” she concluded. “And when I started building the garden, it was really like a metaphor of putting my life back together. I began planting seeds, and the smallest things became really profound.”

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On Her Love for Gardening

Anderson’s green thumb is something she inherited from her family.

“It comes from my grandfather Herman. He was really interesting and the closest person to me as a child,” she told Better Homes & Gardens. “He was very much into mythology and fairy tales, and we always spoke about them when I was little. He would put little mirrors around in the garden, and he told me that was a way I could catch a glimpse of fairies and elves.”

She added, “I have a little collection of marbles and little toys that I still find in the garden. And I think, ‘Did I put those there as a child for my future self?’ Believe me, I’ve gone crazy with all this. Do you realize that this place that I bought from my grandmother is the same place my parents brought me home from the hospital when I was born? There were nine cabins, and we lived in cabin six. This is the first place my feet touched the actual soil.”

On Her Passion for Baking

One thing that has helped Anderson turn her house into a home is baking delicious treats.

“This bread thing is such a meditation for me,” she told Better Homes & Gardens. “You’re always on the search for the best loaf and it never comes. There’s something about it that I compare to giving birth. If all those other people have done it, then so can I. Baking teaches patience. I’ve come to realize there’s so much about cooking that is good for you. If you like to cook, you’re good at lots of things.”