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During Hugh Hefner Life, the Playboy Mansion projected an image of being exclusive, glamorous and fun, including through reality TV Girls next door , which focused on HEF's "girlfriends". But, in recent years, some people who have lived and worked in the manor have spoken of what they say they are behind the facade, saying that HEF had promoted a toxic environment . THE Playboy The wife of the founding magazine Crystal Hefner is one of those who share disturbing stories of what it was to be attached to him and to live the Playboy way of life.

In a new interview with the New York Post ,, The crystal opened About her next memoirs, the strict rules that she and the other Hugh partners were forced to follow, and why she had to be "deprogrammed" by therapy after her death. Continue reading to learn more.

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According to New York Post , Crystal was a 21 -year -old student when a friend suggested that he submit a photo to attend a Playboy manor party. "It's like," Oh, that's how the other half lives "", she remembers when she was there.

She said Hugh asked her to move to the mansion with her other "friends" - including 18 -year -olds Karissa And Kristina Shannon - Only a few days after their meeting.

"It was very, very fast. I think he had a lot of experience with the simple to move people right away," she said. "The 'I Love Yous' started fairly quickly. I learned everything about love bombings since then." (According to the Cleveland Clinic, " Love bombardment is a form of psychological and emotional violence that involves a person going beyond for you in order to manipulate you in a relationship with them. ")

Hugh and Crystal got married in 2012 - she was 26 years old and he was 86 years old - and they stayed together until his death in 2017 at the age of 91.

Crystal said to New York Post That Hugh applied rules in their marriage, including at 6 p.m. curfew for her. She also said that he had not allowed her to travel.

"When Hef would go out, it would be in a club to go and get women. So I think he supposed that when I went out, I was going to do the same thing," she said. "Really, I just wanted to go to Disneyland or to the beach, or anywhere." She added: "Once, I asked her to travel to Paris because I wanted to go to Paris Disneyland ... He said:" No, go when I left. ""

In addition, Crystal estimated that she was in competition with the other women of the Playboy Mansion, who all knew that they "could easily be replaced".

She said of her late husband: "HEF loved the old films where women vanished and were helpless, and they could do nothing without a man, and they asked a whole man." She said she was "rewarded to be the defenseless young lady".

Crystal stayed with Hugh until his death and was by his side when he died. "Towards the end of his life, I felt like I could not leave him. I had to take care of him," she said. "It was like" ok, he loves me and he needs me, and he relys on me for many different reasons and I can't leave him. "So I was there until the end."

Subsequently, however, she realized that she did not know what a healthy relationship was and learned that she was in the "arrested development" to live in a "bubble" for all twenty years. Crystal explained to new York Job that it took therapy and "deprogramming" to be able to continue.

"I realize that I can be who I am, and I discover [I am] nothing like the lifestyle in which I was," she said. "I don't even wear heels! These little outfits that we have to wear all the time - I am like, UGH. I literally threw [everything] everything ... It's almost like SSPT for me. I do not Can't even look at this thing. "

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Crystal writes a dissertation on his time with Hugh entitled Only say good things This should be published in January 2024. The title comes from something he said to him once. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"It's called Only say good things Because I had [had] a conversation with HEF and he let me know: "Once I will be, when I am gone, please say that good things about me", " said to the 37 -year -old woman New York Post . "I have held this promise in the past five years. After going through a lot of therapy and healing, I realized that I had to be honest about my stay there. The book concerns the healing of a toxic environment. "

She added Hugh: "HEF was a narcissist and a misogynist ... He was a very complicated human. But he also did a lot of good. He helped a lot of people and helped defend things. At the same time, he Also, he too hurt people in a way he did not achieve. "

Crystal shared that she learns to have healthy friendships and romantic relationships and has traveled. She is still president of the Hugh Foundation and works on the archiving of her property. She said that, through it, she discovered photos of naked women that one of her ex believes he has kept blackmail.

In the Special A & E 2022 Secrets of Playboy , Ex of Hugh Holly Madison said she felt herself She couldn't leave the Playboy manor For fear that naked photos of her will be published.

"When you go out with HEF, it takes all kinds of naked photos of these women when we are wasted from our mind," she said. "And he printed eight copies for him and all women, you spent them. It was simply disgusting."

Crystal said she had destroyed the photos. "I just thought that if I was the women in these photos, what would I want to do with them? So I made sure to tear them all. They are all shredded and thrown," she said .

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A large part of what Madison had revealed about it Relation with Hefner corresponds to the claims of Crystal.

"I started to have the impression of being in love with him in a very similar, thinking about it, I have the impression that it was a very type of Stockholm syndrome, where I just had the impression of identifying with him and he complimented me so much at the beginning, "said Madison Calls his daddy in 2021. "And I just started, in my mind, to blame all the other problems on other women. Like" oh, it is a miserable situation, but if these other women were not there, it would not be like that.'"

As indicated by US Weekly ,, Other women who lived in the mansion said they had a curfew, were not allowed to bring other men and had to collect a Hugh allowance to spend money.