Crystal Hefner is breaking her silence on life in the Playboy Mansion. The former Playboy playmate, who was married to Hugh Hefner from 2012 until his death in 2017, is revisiting that chapter in her life in the upcoming memoir Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself—and as she makes clear, she’s not holding anything back.
Everyone assumes [I was] some dumb young girl who became part of [Hugh’s] girlfriend entourage, and, you know, ‘She’s an idiot,'” Crystal told Us Weekly in comments posted Aug. 3. “But now I have a pretty clear understanding of what I went through and what went on, and it’ll be apparent in the book.
She continued, “There are hard stories and people that have hurt me, and they’re in there. The stories are very detailed, and there are things that have never been spoken about before.
Crystal was 21 when she met the late magazine magnate at a Halloween party at the Playboy Mansion in 2008. He soon asked her to move in with him and his other girlfriends, 19-year-old twins Karissa Shannon and Kristina Shannon.
Crystal noted that during her time with Hugh, she “was rewarded for being codependent and feeling like I was nothing without Hef and had no value of my own.
And it wasn’t until after his death that she was able to look back on their relationship with clarity.
“Therapy really helped,” she said. “You start backtracking and [noticing] different behaviors. I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s gaslighting. That’s narcissism.’ It took years for me to understand what I went through, understand myself and also understand Hef and why he did certain things.
While Crystal’s upcoming memoir delves deeper into her time at the Playboy Mansion, she has alluded to her complex relationship with the Hugh and his legacy. “In a lot of ways it was a sanctuary to me,” she wrote on Instagram in December 2021, “but in other ways, it was my prison.
Source: eonline
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