
Many moved on to live happy, healthy, and productive lives, and I’m pleased to say remain dear friends today. After Madison’s book came out, he told Us Weekly in a statement: “Over the course of my life I’ve had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women. Hefner, who went on to marry Crystal Hefner(née Harris) in 2012, died in 2017. He would compare me to Belle in Beauty and Beast, like, I just came along to this castle.” “It took time, it took me being interested in another man before I finally was like, ‘I have to pull the plug because I’m not gonna cheat.’ It just goes along with all the love-bombing stuff and the ‘We’re gonna be together forever, and we’re gonna be together the rest of my life’ and blah, blah, blah. But even still, I felt guilty leaving,” she recalled to Cooper. “He started lashing out at me more for really stupid things and I just realized, like, I can’t be here, like, this guy is an a-hole. Hefner and Madison split in 2008 after Marquardt and Wilkinson decided to move out too. In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies “Looking back at it, it was a very Stockholm syndrome kind of thing where I felt like I identified with him, he was complimenting me so much, I started, in my mind, started blaming all the other problems on the other women.” “I started to feel like I was in love with him,” Madison told host Alex Cooper. More than five years after the memoir made headlines, Madison got candid about her relationship - and sex life - with Hefner during an appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.

But I guess I wasn’t comfortable enough to explain why I thought it would be fun or why I thought it would be a good idea.” … I could understand how people thought it was strange. “But I wasn’t sophisticated or really prepared. And I was,” she wrote about her decision to move into the mansion. “I thought I was an adult and thought I was making my free choice. The Holly’s World alum initially detailed her time in the mansion in her 2015 memoir, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny,alleging that Hefner offered the women drugs and detailing the bizarre rules and regulations amongst the women. While she was Hefner’s “main girlfriend” after his split from Tina Jordan, Madison became known as part of a trio alongside Bridget Marquardtand Kendra Wilkinson.

Madison dated Hugh Hefner from 2001 to 2008, with E! cameras documenting three years of her romance with the Playboy founder on The Girls Next Door.


No matter how much time passes, Holly Madison’s bombshell claims about the Playboy Mansion never fail to ruffle some bunny feathers.
