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Pamela Anderson Was Told She Had 10 Years To Live: What Is Hepatitis C And Can It Be Cured?
Anderson said she was told she had 10 years to live, then later cleared the virus after antiviral treatment.
- At the Venice Film Festival Gala, actress Pamela Anderson reflected on her hepatitis C diagnosis from the 1990s, recalling she was told she had only 10 years to live.
- "Back in the late '90s, when I was diagnosed with hepatitis C, there was no cure," Anderson said, having contracted the virus by sharing a tattoo needle with Tommy Lee.
- Following a yearlong antiviral regimen approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Anderson announced in 2015 she was cured, stating, "I'm grateful to say now that I am hep C free."
- While the disease is now highly curable with antiviral drugs, the World Health Organization reports about 47 million people remain impacted by chronic hepatitis C globally, with approximately 239,000 deaths in 2024.
- Beyond hepatitis C, hepatitis B resulted in an estimated 1.1 million deaths in 2024, mostly from cirrhosis and primary liver cancer, underscoring the broader global viral hepatitis burden.
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At a gala in Venice, Pamela Anderson spoke openly about her former hepatitis C diagnosis. She also described how strongly the disease had shaped her life and her family.
Pamela Anderson Got Hepatitis C from Sharing a Tattoo Needle with Tommy Lee, and a Doctor Told Her She Had 10 Years Left
When Pamela Anderson was diagnosed with Hepatitis C in the late 1990s, a doctor told her she might have a decade left. Her greatest fear wasn’t for herself — it was what would happen to her y…
Pamela Anderson recalled in Venice 2026 the moment when, at the end of the 1990s, she received the diagnosis of hepatitis C, an infectious disease... The article Pamela Anderson recounts hepatitis C contracted in the 1990s: "It was a death sentence" comes from Bigodino.
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