Hugh Hefner's widow reveals her last words

Crystal Hefner opens onto the founder of Playboy, including his last days, in his new book.


Despite Hugh Heffner Tell your third wife, Crystal Hefner , to "say only good things" about her, she tells her story - including what it was to be married to THE Playboy founder - In his new book. She writes in Say only good things: survive in Playboy and find me About his relationship with the magazine publisher, who died in 2017 at the age of 91. Crystal and Hugh got married for five years, and she spent her last days with him. But Crystal admits in her memoirs that she was never in love with him. She also shares her last words before her death.

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As indicated by US Weekly ,, Crystal and Hugh met During the Playboy Mansion Halloween Party in 2008. He quickly asked him to move to the manor and became his "main girlfriend". They got engaged in 2010 - although Crystal says that he "never asked him [to him] marry him" and that she never really said yes. Despite the absence of a proposal, they got married two years later.

"I have never been in love with HEF, but I loved this old man of the way you are supposed to love your elders," wrote Crystal, as the magazine reported. "The way you are supposed to love someone who approaches the end of a long and complicated life."

Due to the loyalty she felt towards him, Crystal was with Hugh in his death. Shortly after his death in September 2017, Playboy announced that He died of natural causes , as reported by CBS News. However, E! News reported in October 2017 that His death certificate provided more details on his cause of death. According to this document, Hugh died after entering cardiac arrest and respiratory failure. His death certificate also lists an E. coli infection and septicemia (blood intoxication of bacteria) as contributing to his death.

Hugh and Crystal Hefner at a Playboy event in 2012
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In his book, Crystal shares that Hugh coli infection was "aggressive" and "very resistant to antibiotics and difficult to treat". She says she held her hand because she was given antibiotics via an IV and that her last words were "I'm fine".

Crystal previously opened About stay with Hugh Until his death in an interview in July 2023 with the New York Post. "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."

After Hugh's death, Crystal began to face how life at the Playboy Mansion with her husband really affected her. She said she had needed therapy and "deprogramming" to move from the "arrested development" she lived. Crystal, now 37, revealed that Hugh had strict rules for her during their marriage, including a curfew and a travel ban. His story on the mansion and the "toxic" behavior of Hugh aligns with certain stories of his other ex.

"It's called Only say good things Because I had [had] a conversation with HEF and he let me know: "Once I am, when I go, please only say good things about me," said Crystal 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. "

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