Pamela Anderson cut a glamorous figure as she arrived to promote her film Place To Be at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday. The actress, 59, looked elegant in a floaty floral blue dress and white Louboutin stilettos for the photocall ahead of the premiere later in the evening. Pamela showcased her natural beauty by going make-up free and styled her peroxide blonde locks in voluminous waves.She was joined by Rita Ora’s husband, director Taika Waititi, 51, who put on an animated display as he posed for photographs. Place To Be is a road-trip story following an elderly woman, Brooke (Ellen Burstyn), and a divorcée, Nelson (Waititi), traveling from Chicago to New York to return a lost racing pigeon.Pamela stars as Molly, Brooke’s daughter, who is trying to find her footing after her second marriage and worries about her mother. Pamela Anderson cut a glamorous figure as she arrived to promote her film Place To Be at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday The actress, 59, looked elegant in a floaty floral blue dress and white Louboutin stilettos for the photocall ahead of the premiere later in the eveningDuring the Venice Film Festival, Pamela also received a prestigious award at the amfAR Gala. Speaking at the event last weekend, the actress recalled the time she was given ’10 years to live’ when she was diagnosed with hepatitis C.The Baywatch actress contracted the blood-borne illness around 1999 after she shared a tattoo needle with her ex-husband, Tommy Lee.Pamela said it felt like ‘a death sentence’ after doctors told her it was a terminal diagnosis and she would not live past another decade. However, she announced in 2015 that she was completely cured of hepatitis C after living with the virus for 16 years.Pamela admitted she is ‘still haunted by shame and guilt’. Pamela, who shares sons Brandon, 30, and Dylan, 28, with Tommy, said: ‘It was a death sentence. That’s what my doctor told me – that I probably had around 10 years to live.”I’m sure that coloured and corrupted my decisions. It was not fear of death, but fear of what might happen to my young children. It turned my life inside out,’ Variety reported. Pamela showcased her natural beauty by going make-up free and styled her peroxide blonde locks in voluminous waves During the Venice Film Festival, Pamela also received a prestigious award at the amfAR Gala Place To Be is a road-trip story following an elderly woman, Brooke (Ellen Burstyn), and a divorcee, Nelson (Waititi), traveling from Chicago to New York to return a lost racing pigeon Pamela stopped to sign photographs to fans She arrived at Excelsior hotel by a water taxi Pamela appeared in high spirits Rhe actress gave a wave from her water taxi She was joined by Rita Ora ‘s husband, director Taika Waititi , 51, who put on an animated display as he posed for photographs Murray Bartlett, from left, Taika, Ellen Burstyn, Pamela and director Kornél MundruczóShe continued: ‘But my experience of shame and guilt was also an unconscious journey. It stays with me; it haunts me.’And just like the sexual abuse that I endured as a child, it felt like it was carved into my forehead: Damaged goods. And I presented myself as such.’A cure for the infection was discovered in 2011 and by 2015, Pamela was ‘hep C free’, though at a financial cost.She admitted: ‘It took everything I had in my bank [to pay for treatment].’Pamela still hasn’t ‘fully recovered’ from the news of her diagnosis but has ‘finally come to terms’ with it and used it to fuel her career resurgence.The Last Showgirl star said: ‘My truth has come through my work, finding ways to express myself through the arts. It gave me the ammunition I needed, a fertile life to use and play in.’I’m not a victim, I’m a victor. I am strong and capable, more now than I could ever dream of … I’m not the damsel in distress, no matter how easy that role is to play.’