Crystal Hefner ‘deprogrammed’ after life with Hef at Playboy mansion
nypost.comCrystal Hefner was just 21 years old when she met Hugh Hefner, 81, at the Playboy mansion’s infamous Halloween party, which was known for its guest list of celebrities and scantily clad models.He asked her to move in with him — and his 18-year-old twin girlfriends, Karissa and Kristina Shannon — days later.“It was very, very fast.
I think he had a lot of experience with just moving people in right away,” Crystal told The Post. “The ‘I love yous’ started pretty quick.“I’ve learned all about love bombing since then.”It led to marriage in 2012, when Crystal was 26.
Over the 10-year relationship, she buried who she really was, lived with a 6 p.m. curfew, couldn’t travel and gave herself over to a “needy” man who she felt too guilty to leave.She was at Hefner’s bedside when he died in 2017, at age 91.But it’s only been recently that Crystal, now 37, has come to terms with the darker side of her life with Hef.It’s taken hours of therapy and “deprogramming” to untangle the debris of her life with the man who founded the Playboy empire in 1953.
She’s thrown away all but one of her “bunny girl” outfits, removed her breast implants and spent the past year-and-a-half writing a memoir called “Only Say Good Things.”“It’s called ‘Only Say Good Things’ because I [had] a conversation with Hef and he let me know: ‘Once I go, when I’m gone, please only say good things about me,'” Crystal told The Post.“I kept that promise for the last five years.
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