Holly Madison, 42, has opened up about her experience living in the Playboy mansion in a new clip from A&E’s upcoming documentary, Secrets of Playboy. “The reason I think the mansion was very cult-like looking back on it is because we were all kind of gaslit,” Holly said.
The model explained that she and the other Playboy Bunnies were “expected to think of” Hugh Hefner, who died in 2017, “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.’ ” Holly, who dated Hugh from 2001 to 2008, also reflected on the isolation of living in the Playboy mansion. “You had a 9 o’clock curfew.
You were encouraged to not have friends over. You weren’t really allowed to leave unless it was like a family holiday,” she explained.
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