Hugh Hefner’s ex ‘number one’ girlfriend Holly Madison said there was one act at the Playboy Mansion she found ‘disgusting’, as she shared the darker reality of the glamorous life
One of Hugh Hefner’s exes has shared what she claimed was the most disturbing part of dating the late Playboy founder that she found “disgusting”. Holly Madison has spoken again about life inside the Playboy Mansion and the reality behind the image.
Madison dated Hefner from 2001 to 2008 and became his “number one” girlfriend, at a time when there were seven, and moved into the mansion. Now 46, she has previously said she got fed up with social media trolls fixating on their 53-year age gap.
She told the In Your Dreams podcast: “There was a time when I couldn’t post anything [on social media] without some dumba** in the comments [being] like, ‘Oh, old balls’.”
Madison added: “Maybe some people’s balls do get old and nasty, but I’ve never seen such a thing.” But she did admit that there was one aspect of their sex life she couldn’t stand.
The model, whose relationship with Hefner and his two other girlfriends – Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt – was showcased in the reality TV show The Girls Next Door, shared her candid opinions of the group sex she was having. She said: “If it was just me and him, it was a lot more normal than you would think.
“It’s a very different story between when we were just by ourselves than with everybody else in the room. Everybody else in the room, no.
“That was disgusting. I hated it. I made it very known I hated it.”
She claimed that, despite being in a long-term relationship with Hefner, she didn’t truly know him in the way she thought she did, Unilad reported. “I thought I was connecting with [Hefner],” she told the New York Post. “When really I was just somebody who had trouble connecting with people my whole life.
“And I’d met somebody who was like a master manipulator.” Madison isn’t the only ex who has shared her negative experience dating Hefner.
Hefner’s widow, Crystal Harris, recently claimed that she had “never been in love” with him and even labelled him as “emotionally abusive”. Harris, who was married to him from 2012 until his death in 2017, previously insisted she only cared for Hefner like an elderly relative, the Daily Star previously reported.
In her memoir Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself, she wrote: “Life in the (Playboy) mansion wasn’t the fairy tale I had once hoped it would be. From the outside, sure, it had all the trappings of a fairy tale.
“But it wasn’t, and everyone who lived there knew it. I was never in love with Hef, but I loved this old man in the ways you are supposed to love your elders.
“In the ways you are supposed to love someone who is nearing the end of a long and complicated life.”
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