Hefner’s widow exposes Playboy Mansion’s darkish facet – and ’embarrassing’ orgies

Crystal Hefner is simply days away from publishing an explosive memoir about her “dark” marriage to Hugh Hefner.

The title is named ‘Only Say Good Things’ as a result of this was what her controversial husband instructed her to do for after he was gone.

But Crystal, who was born in America however lived above a pub in West Bromwich briefly as a toddler, is able to expose the secrets and techniques she has saved buried since Hef died seven years in the past.

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The description on the again of the e book paints a bleak image with one paragraph stating: “In 2008 the Playboy mansion became Crystal Harris’s sanctuary – a shimmering vestige of opportunity. Within months she had ascended its hierarchy to become Hugh Hefner’s top girlfriend. But her new home came at a cost.

“Forced to follow strict rules that governed everything from her appearance to behaviour, she began to lose her identity. By the time she married Hef in 2012, the mansion had become her prison.”

Before the e book comes out, this is what we already find out about Crystal’s time at Playboy.

She was 21 when she met the lad magazine titan at a Halloween celebration on the Los Angeles mansion and the pair had intercourse hours later – one thing she described as “nothing remarkable”.

But the blonde magnificence stated her time as a younger grownup was “stolen” that night time they usually married 5 years later when she was 26 and he was 86. They tied the knot after Crystal claimed she was pressured to compete along with his different girlfriends to turn out to be his third and remaining spouse.

The unlikely duo initially bonded after realising they’d each studied psychology at college. But after transferring in with the pensioner, she ditched her training to focus totally on his wants.

This concerned altering the best way she behaved and dressed, and talking to The Sunday Telegraph in 2018, she stated: “I’ve never been the heels and dress and full makeup, I’ve never been that kind of person. Maybe I felt like I had to be in the role I was in, being Playmate or being a part of Playboy, that I had to be dolled up.

“I think now I am more myself, which is the more down-to-earth, minimal makeup, that is where I feel the most comfortable.”

Crystal later stated it was proper that her relationship was so extensively judged – and admitted she would by no means permit her personal daughter to marry a person 60 years her senior.

But Hef was no abnormal Joe – and Crystal, now 37, claimed he picked what color nail polish she was allowed to put on and set strict guidelines like having a 6pm curfew.

She was additionally fed the identical meal each night time (rooster soup with cream cheese and crackers) earlier than having to sit down by means of motion pictures of his selecting.

But relatively than heading off to catch some sleep, she then was anticipated to participate in orgies, one thing she described as “embarrassing”.

She instructed the Daily Mail: “I don’t know the most people there’d been in our bedroom at one time but a lot. Pretty bad. We were like, ‘Oh, now it’s your turn’.

“Nobody really wanted to be there but I think in Hef’s mind, he still thought he was in his 40s, and those nights, the people, the mansion, solidified that idea. He felt, ‘I’ve still got it’.”

Some outsiders have instructed to Crystal that the answer would have been to depart – however she stated her circumstances made such a alternative inconceivable.

Her dad died when she was 12 and her mom struggled month to month to get by and she or he described feeling like she had nowhere else to go when she lived within the mansion.

And whereas she was there, she additionally felt immense stress to suit as much as the Playboy picture. This included having 34D silicone breast implants. But chasing the proper physique with cosmetic surgery virtually killed her after the implants started to poison her.

Remembering having to placed on a courageous face throughout a grim Playboy shoot, she instructed the Chillin with Ice podcast: “I had implants and one of them was trying to come out of my body because my body was rejecting it so I said, Oh, can you tweak that one like back to straight’?”

The implants took eight years to make her in poor health and she or he ultimately had them eliminated earlier than she determined to inject fats from different elements of her physique into her breasts, regardless of solely weighing simply over eight stone.

Opening up in regards to the trauma, she stated: “To get the fats simpler they fill your physique with fluid, so that you type of look huge and puffy on the working desk. All the locations he went in for the lipo he saved the holes open in order that the fluid can drain out.

“But I simply ended up dropping an excessive amount of blood …possibly my iron ranges have been low earlier than I went in there, possibly he ought to have checked, however I ended up going to the ER and my haemoglobin dropped to under seven [from an average of between 12 and 16].

“They said we can’t let you leave without a blood transfusion so I ended up getting a blood transfusion and slowly got better.”

The former Playmate later took to Instagram, where she has three million followers, to highlight it as another example of the unrealistic body image she developed from her time at Playboy.

She wrote: “Our culture is a trap and makes women feel terrible about themselves. Movies (84.9% directed by men) make it worse. Social media makes it worse.

“Advertisements make it worse. Physically fake people make it worse …I was one of them. Women are overly sexualised. I know from the worst kind of experience.”

Being overly sexualised by Hefner is one thing she goes to show in her new e book – after beforehand saying it was lucky for her husband that he “missed” the MeToo motion, which began after his dying.

But summarising her time with Hefner and explaining why now could be the best time to open up, she instructed The Mail: “My relationship and marriage to Hugh Hefner was a very complicated one. It was one where, no matter how I was treated, I always felt like I had to protect him, which is why I have not shared my story until now.

“Since his passing, I have had to do a lot of self-discovery. I have had to find out who I am without it being dictated to me. I have had to not only find my voice, but I also had to learn how to use that voice. My book is a testament to the power of time, processing all that I have been through and embracing my truth.”

In latest days she instructed her followers on Instagram that she was “so excited” about her e book launching within the UK on January 25. She stated she had a document variety of pre-orders and that even her “harshest critics are giving glowing reviews”.

Crystal added: “It has all been so surreal. I can’t wait to get this book to your hands and ears. It’s definitely the book I wish I would have read as a young woman. I hope you enjoy the lessons it holds.”