Tim Allen has hit out at Pamela Anderson after his former co-worker accused him of flashing her on the set of Home Improvement.
Allen, now 69, was approached by the Daily Mail in the wake of Anderson's claims.
As he was getting into his car, Allen said: "She was a great co-worker, I'll tell you that. She's a fun girl."
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"Everybody loved her, but everybody at ABC is a little disappointed in her memory, put it that way," he said.
"All of us at Disney/ABC, really."
He added: "She's a good girl."
Before he drove away, Allen was asked if he considered himself to have a good memory, to which he replied: "Yeah."
The alleged incident was said to take place when Anderson was 23 and Allen was in his late 30s.
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Anderson made the accusation in her upcoming memoir, Love, Pamela, in an excerpt obtained by Variety.
She wrote: "On the first day of filming [Home Improvement], I walked out of my dressing room, and Tim was in the hallway in his robe.
"He opened his robe and flashed me quickly — completely naked underneath.
"He said it was only fair, because he had seen me naked. Now we’re even."
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Anderson said she 'laughed uncomfortably' at the alleged interaction.
Variety reports that Allen was 'presumably' referring to when Anderson appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine in 1989.
When the initial story came out, Allen strenuously denied flashing Anderson.
In a statement to Variety, the actor said: "No, it never happened. I would never do such a thing."
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The following day, Anderson doubled down on her claims.
"I have no ill will toward Tim. But like the rest, it should never have happened," she said to Vanity Fair.
But Anderson has now spoken out once more, this time defending Allen for the alleged incident.
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In a text message she wrote to the Variety writer, Anderson said: "Tim is a comedian, it’s his job to cross the line. I’m sure he had no bad intentions.
"Times have changed, though. I doubt anyone would try that post #MeToo. It’s a new world."
Allen's words come shortly after a clip resurfaced of him appearing to flash a different actor, Patricia Richardson, on the set of Home Improvement, in footage taken from a blooper reel.
But speaking on the incident with TMZ, Richardson said: "People ask me what was under the kilt when he flashed me, he was well dressed under there, I was just shocked that he lifted the kilt, not by a man in boxer shorts."
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