Holly Madison shares unpleasant experiences in Playboy Mansion and Hugh Hefner
Holly Madison recalls her old boyfriend Hugh Hefner.
Between 2001 and 2008, the Girls Next Door star dated the Playboy magazine founder. Holly recalled her first meeting with the late media mogul, who died in 2017 at the age of 91 after a heart arrest and respiratory failure.
Holly claims she accepted to date Hugh because he had a “spot open” when one of his girlfriends departed the mansion in 2001.
“I didn’t really know what went on with them sexually,” she said. “I figured something, and I was prepared for that. I wasn’t prepared for what would eventually happen.”
She went on, “I wasn’t necessarily expecting to have sex that night. I thought it would be more of a first date.”
“very traditional first date,” she believed that “it would be more of a type of thing where I saw what happened, saw what was going on, [and] if I wasn’t comfortable with it, I wouldn’t have to do anything.”
That wasn’t the case, according to Holly.
“He was literally pushed on top of me,” she recalled. “And after it happened, I was just mortified and embarrassed and it had way more of an emotional impact on me than I thought it would.”
That she “had always admired Hef” and “really looked up to him” before becoming one of his lovers. The claimed encounter frightened her the most, she added, because of what others at the Playboy house might think.
“It wasn’t that the idea of possibly having sex with him repelled me so much,” she said. “It was more the group aspect that was really out of my comfort zone and just the feeling of like, ‘Wow. That happened. Everybody knows it happened.'”
“All of a sudden it felt like everybody was going to know about me and I was horrified by it.”
Holly said when asked why she didn’t “run away” she said “I felt like there’s no taking that back, so I might as well get what I came for.” after their first date.
Holly has already discussed her time with Hugh and staying in the Playboy mansion. Her memoirs Down the Rabbit Hole (2015) and Vegas Diaries (2016) chronicle her experience.
In an August teaser for Secrets of Playboy, Holly termed joining Hugh’s world a “dangerous choice.”
A fresh teaser from Holly revealed earlier this month that she felt trapped in a cycle of unpleasant things for the first couple years she lived there.