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Express Tribune
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Holly Madison reflects on ‘disgusting' Playboy Mansion experience and turning down ‘The Traitors'
Former Playboy model and reality TV star Holly Madison has opened up about the disturbing aspects of her relationship with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, admitting she "hated" certain sexual encounters during her time at the Playboy Mansion. Speaking on the In Your Dreams with Owen Thiele podcast, Madison joked about long-standing rumors that the mansion is haunted, but said the real horror was 'what's going to happen in the bedroom on night two.' Madison, who dated Hefner from age 22 while he was 75, said her experience was very different in private compared to group settings. 'That was disgusting. I hated it. I made it very known I hated it,' she recalled. Madison, who gained fame through the mid-2000s reality series The Girls Next Door, has been more vocal in recent years about the toxic environment she experienced. In the 2021 A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy, she detailed verbal abuse and emotional manipulation, including Hefner screaming at her over a haircut and criticizing her appearance. 'I felt like I was just in this cycle of gross things and I didn't know what to do,' she previously said. She also revealed on the podcast that she turned down an offer to join the first U.S. season of the reality competition series The Traitors. Madison said she initially thought producers wanted to label her a villain due to her memoir, The Vegas Diaries, which detailed her relationship with Hefner. 'I'm not falling for that... I'm not going on your stupid show where I'm supposed to be a villain,' she said, though she now regrets the decision.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Holly Madison says she 'hated' some 'disgusting' sex acts with 'Playboy' owner Hugh Hefner: 'I made it very known'
Reality star Holly Madison has a complicated view of her time dating Playboy magazine founder and editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner. But she unequivocally "hated" some things she did while living at the Playboy Mansion. During a playful conversation on a recent episode of the In Your Dreams with Owen Thiele podcast about rumors that the sprawling Los Angeles estate is haunted, Madison darkly joked, "I really love that stuff, so I always thought that was kind of intriguing and fun. The scary stuff is some of the other girls you have to deal with, or what's going to happen in the bedroom on night two." When asked if Hefner, with whom she had an eight-year relationship and who was 75 to Madison's 22 when they began dating in 2001, was good in bed, Madison said, "It's a very different story between when we were by ourselves than with everybody else in the room." And when other residents and guests of the Playboy Mansion were present? "That was disgusting. I hated it. I made it very known I hated it," Madison revealed. Madison became a fixture of aughts pop culture when she began starring on The Girls Next Door, a reality show chronicling life inside the Playboy Mansion, alongside fellow Playboy models Bridgette Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson. After Hefner died in 2017 at the age of 91, Madison, Marquardt, Wilkinson, and others began speaking out about the dark side of dating Hefner and living in the Playboy Mansion. In the 2021 A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy, Madison recalled Hefner "screaming at me" that a haircut "made me look old, hard, and cheap." Marquardt said that "Hef would be pretty abrasive in the way he said things to Holly" in particular, with Madison remembering, "There were times probably within the first couple years that I lived there when I felt like I was just in this cycle of gross things and I didn't know what to do." Madison told Thiele, "If it was just me and him, it was very, like, a lot more normal than you would think," adding that "everybody has this horror story" in their minds of "how gross an old man's body must be.""I feel like there was a time when I couldn't post anything without some dumbass in the comments like, 'Oh, old balls,' or something like that," she said. "Maybe some people's balls do get old and nasty, but I've never seen such a thing." She also revealed she was asked to join the cast of the first U.S. season of the reality series The Traitors, but passed on the opportunity. "It hadn't been on the air so I didn't know what it was, and I thought that they thought I was a traitor because I wrote a book about Hef," Madison said, referring to her 2016 book The Vegas Diaries: Romance, Rolling the Dice, and the Road to Reinvention, which details the ups and down of her time with Hefner. "I was like, 'I'm not falling for that, I'm not going on your stupid show where I'm supposed to be a villain cuz I'm a traitor, f--- you. So I didn't do it, but now I regret it." Watch the rest of Madison's In Your Dreams podcast interview above. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
