Pamela Anderson is settling into her Garden of Eden. 'I was really happy to spend this year just on my own with my dogs and my vegetables and the trees and the ocean,' Anderson tells TODAY.com during a phone interview. 'And as lonely as it's been at times, it's a good kind of lonely and it's something that also made me stronger.
' According to Anderson, part of that process was reconciling with her difficult past which, she says has been akin to taking “two steps forward, one step back.” 'I think how we survive in our life is we compartmentalize and it's all going to come to surface in all these different ways,' she explains. 'So, it's important to work through things and then you're in a better place to make better decisions.