Pamela Anderson Inspires Drew Barrymore and Valerie Bertinelli to Go Makeup-Free on National TV

Drew Barrymore and Valerie Bertinelli found inspiration in Pamela Anderson!

In the preview of the episode from Tuesday, October 22 The Drew Barrymore Show posted on Instagram and TikTok on Monday, October 21, Barrymore, 49, and Bertinelli, 64, appear bare-faced alongside Anderson, 57, who has been attending events without makeup since Paris Fashion Week in September 2023.

“I really think you own this space. I think you’re the pioneer of what we’re certainly doing here today,” Barrymore tells Anderson at the beginning of the video.

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“Isn’t it liberating? Doesn’t it feel free? I feel free. I mean, it took a while; I’ve had my own little, you know, journey with it, but we’re all our own worst critics,” Anderson says before explaining why started her no-makeup movement.

“I was at Paris Fashion Week and decided [if] I was just going to a fashion show, I didn’t have to compete with anyone. Like, why am I wasting three hours in the makeup chair when I’m wearing this beautiful Vivian Westwood outfit,” she continues. “And I didn’t know anyone would notice. So then when people started coming up to me and talking about it, I thought, ‘Well, this is a great message.’ You know, to really peel it back and find out who I am again. I wanted to remember who I am.”

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Anderson tells Barrymore and Bertinelli that she’s felt like she’s been “playing characters” all her life.

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“It just hit me a few years ago, and I was like, you know, just shaking my head, going, ‘Who am I?’ You know, that’s when I went home to my garden and started planting things and going out into nature and going back to the trees that knew me from birth,” she says. “I bought my grandmother’s estate and renovated it, and I just started putting it all back. And then I started peeking out without makeup. And then I started realizing, ‘Oh, I feel great like me.'”

The model told Barrymore and Bertinelli: “This is the best time of my life.”

Pamela Anderson at the Giorgio Armani RTW Spring 2025 Fashion Show held at Park Avenue Armory on October 17, 2024 in New York, New York.

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“I feel so empowered and so free and so excited to be alive again,” she adds before the clip ends with Barrymore pulling out her hair extensions.

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