Holly Madison on ‘really strange’ experience filming ‘The Girls Next Door’: ‘They treated us like children’

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Holly Madison has been reflecting on the years she spent with Hugh Hefner. The former Playboy Bunny spoke out on A&E’s 10-part docuseries titled "Secrets of Playboy." It features new interviews with numerous members of the Playboy founder’s staff and inner circle, as well as past girlfriends.

The 42-year-old dated the magazine publisher from 2001 to 2008 and was viewed as his No.1 girlfriend at one point. Most recently, the star appeared on the conversational series "Between Two Salads" where she described the "really strange" experience filming "The Girls Next Door," the E!

reality series that went inside the Playboy Mansion. ‘The Girls Next Door' aired from 2005 until 2009. (Photo by Chris Haston/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images) "It was really strange and probably not what it would be for anybody else, because I had no control over the situation," Madison explained. "And I was already living in this situation that was very cult-like." "It’s kind of turned into this miserable experience but an experience I felt like I was kind of stuck in," she shared. "I was like, ‘I cannot leave until I build a life for myself outside, ‘cause I’d seen so many women leave and kind of go into these dark places.'" Madison said she was "scared to leave" the mansion.

And despite the show’s popularity, Madison claimed they weren’t properly compensated. "They didn’t pay us for the first half of the season," she alleged. "They just thought we would just do it for free because we were there.They really treated us like children.