Sonja Flemming/CBS(LOS ANGELES) — For years, Holly Madison lived in the Playboy Mansion and enjoyed the status of Hugh Hefner’s “number one girlfriend,” a relationship that was detailed on her very popular reality show, The Girls Next Door. However, now she says her life at that time was not as exciting as viewers may have thought.
“I realized I wasn’t treated well,” Madison writes in her upcoming memoir, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, which was excerpted by Us Weekly. “I’m done being afraid of people. I don’t have any loyalty to Hef. I haven’t talked to him in four years, so there’s no reason to reach out now. Besides, it’s the truth.”
Madison warned women about posing in Playboy in a separate interview with E! News.
“Girls talk to me all the time about wanting to pose, but these days I kind of advise against it,” Madison said. “It might seem like something fun and glamorous or rebellious and dangerous in your 20s, but guess what? When you’re 30 or 40, you’re not going to want those pictures floating around. You don’t have control over them — someone else does. They can bring them out of the archives at any time. You don’t have creative control over what the pictures look like. It’s just something people should think about five times before doing.”
Hefner, 89, who in 2012 married Crystal Harris, 29, called foul on the tell-all.
In a statement to People, the Playboy creator accused Madison of twisting the facts.
“Over the course of my life I’ve had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women,” he said in the statement. “Many moved on to live happy, healthy and productive lives and I’m pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight.”
Still, Madison said she doesn’t care how Hef feels about her memoir or interviews.
“After some years have passed, I don’t really find him to be a very genuine person,” she told E! “I feel like if I were to get on the phone with him, everything out of his mouth would be PR b.s. I just have no desire. I don’t even care what his reaction is to this. I’m doing this for me and I’m doing this so people can learn from my mistakes.”
Down the Rabbit Hole is in bookstores Tuesday.
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