Lorde faces backlash for calling Pamela Anderson’s sex tape ‘beautiful’ — was she wrong to watch it?

In a revealing new Rolling Stone cover story published Thursday, the Grammy-winning artist opened up about the ways she has coped with emotional struggles, including an eating disorder and a painful breakup.

But one surprising admission from the New Zealand singer-songwriter has stirred widespread criticism online: she watched Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s infamous sex tape and found it ‘beautiful’, despite Anderson’s feelings about the release of the tape.

The tape, which was stolen and distributed without Anderson and Lee’s consent in the mid-1990s, has long been considered a traumatic event in the actress’s life.

Despite this, Lorde recounted viewing the video while under the influence of psychedelics, saying it left a lasting impression.

‘I found it so beautiful,’ she told the publication. ‘And maybe it’s f***ed up that I watched it, but I saw two people that were so in love with each other, and there was this purity. They were jumping off this big boat.… They were like children. They were so free. And I just was like, “Whoa. Being this free comes with danger.”‘