Holly Madison on being ‘gaslit’ while living in ‘cult-like’ Playboy Mansion: ‘You weren’t allowed to leave’

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Holly Madison is revealing more details about what her life was really like at the Playboy Mansion. Hugh Hefner’s magazine empire is being explored in a 10-part A&E docuseries premiering on Monday titled "The Secrets of Playboy." The special will feature new interviews with former Director of Playmate Promotions Miki Garcia, Hefner’s personal valet Stefan Tetenbaum, Bunny Mother PJ Masten, Playboy Mansion West resident Jennifer Saginor, numerous members of Hefner’s staff and inner circle, including his bodyguard and butler, as well as some of his past girlfriends including Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Sondra Theodore, among others.

On Wednesday, the network released a new teaser that showed Madison sharing her dark experience as a Playboy Bunny at the mansion.The 42-year-old dated Hefner from 2001 until 2008. "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," Madison alleged in the clip. "And you started to feel like, 'Oh, he's not what they say in the media, he's just a nice man.'" "It was so easy to get isolated from the outside world there," she continued. "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." Madison also claimed Hefner urged her to quit her waitressing job, which she only had one day a week just in case "things don’t work out." "He said it made him jealous, and he would appreciate it if I quit my job," said Madison. "So instead, we were given $1,000 a week as an allowance." Holly Madison dated Hugh Hefner from 2001 until 2008. (Photo by Chad Buchanan/Getty Images) After leaving the mansion,.