Holly Madison has more to say about her time at the Playboy Mansion.
The former reality star has been unpacking her experience as one of Hugh Hefner ’s many girlfriends for a while now, and she has shared some of that thoughtful (and heartbreaking) process with the world. In the new A& E docuseries Secrets of Playboy , Holly shared even more reflection on being part of the magazine mogul’s infamous harem.
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In a teaser for the show, the 42-year-old said:
“ The reason I think the mansion was very cult-like looking back on it is because we were all kind of gaslit and expected to think of Hef as like this really good guy. And you started to feel like, ‘ Oh, he’ s not what they say in the media, he’ s just a nice man. ‘”
She continued:
“ Another thing that reminds me of a cult is how it was so easy to get isolated from the outside world there. You had a 9 o’ clock curfew. You were encouraged to not have friends over. You weren’ t really allowed to leave unless it has been, like, a family holiday. ”
We have in order to agree, this does sound a lot like a cult.
Further, the clip revealed that “ the sex always happened kind of like, the same period, the same night” of the week after the girls had been out clubbing — the weirdly ritualistic nature of it makes the experience sound even more cult-like.
Elsewhere in the teaser, the Girls Next Door alum shared:
“ I kept my waitressing job at just like one day the week, because I wanted just to have something easy to be able to go back to should things not work out. And he said it made him jealous, and he would appreciate it if I quit my work. So instead, we were given $1, 000 a week because an allowance. ”
Gaslighting, isolating, “ expected” sex at regular intervals, and controlling their income. On top of that, in a previous clip (below) Holly recalled Hugh being controlling about her appearance , too. All told, it does sound like these women experienced patterns of abuse, if not a new cult. (Both seem likely. ) We can’t imagine what that was like, especially with Playboy being so ingrained in pop culture.
Related: Holly Reveals Hugh Hefner’ s Creepy ‘ Fixation’ & MORE On Podcast
Secrets of Playboy premieres January 24, plus will also feature interviews with Hefner’ s personal valet Stefan Tetenbaum , Dem playboy Mansion West resident Jennifer Saginor , former “ Bunny Mother” PJ Masten , former Director associated with Playmate Promotions Miki Garcia , former girlfriends Bridget Marquardt and Sondra Theodore , and other members regarding Hefner’ s “ staff in addition to inner circle, ” according for you to an A& E press release.
We’ll be interested to see what other revelations emerge from the series…
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