Holly Madison identified that her and Crystal Hefner’s memoirs about their time within the Playboy Mansion share some similarities apart from the subject material.
“Anyone who’s learn my e-book that got here out eight years in the past after which learn her e-book, inform me the narrative voice doesn’t sound precisely the identical,” Madison, 44, claimed throughout a current look on the “LadyGang” podcast. “Drives me up a wall.”
Each Madison and Crystal, 37, dated late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Madison, who starred on Women Subsequent Door for the primary 5 seasons, dated Hugh from 2001 to 2008 and moved out of the mansion the next yr. Crystal started seeing Hugh in 2009 and the couple tied the knot in 2012. Crystal remained married to Hugh till he died in 2017 at age 91.
Madison wrote her memoir, Down the Rabbit Gap, in June 2015. In the meantime, Crystal launched her e-book Solely Say Good Issues in January, eight years after Madison launched hers. Whereas Madison confessed that she anticipated to have an identical story to Crystal about her time with Hugh, she was stunned that their writing types had been additionally related, particularly their shared use of “fairy story references” and “psychological catchphrases.”
It might have been over a decade since The Women Subsequent Door first aired on E!, nevertheless it nonetheless hasn’t been forgotten fairly but. The Women Subsequent Door — which ran for six seasons from 2005 to 2010 — gave viewers an inside take a look at the eventful lives of the late Hugh Hefner’s three fundamental […]
“I’m weirded out by it, particularly since she had a ghostwriter,” Madison claimed. “Like, do your analysis and don’t copy.”
Madison shared that the identical publishing staff who labored along with her additionally collaborated with Crystal which made her increase her eyebrows.
“You’d have thought that it went by way of any person studying it that might be like, ‘That’s a bit of bit too related,’” she quipped.
Madison famous that fellow Women Subsequent Door alum Kendra Wilkinson additionally wrote a memoir about her time within the Playboy Mansion, however not like with Crystal, she may inform they had been written by totally different individuals.
“In case you take my e-book and Kendra’s e-book, it’s two fully totally different individuals regardless that we lived there on the similar time,” she defined, “like, it’s two fully totally different voices, accurately.”
Regardless of the similarities, Madison was glad that Crystal was capable of share her expertise and even validated a few of her recollections.
“It’s all the time laborious to come back out and inform your story first, particularly whenever you’re crucified for it,” she admitted. “When my e-book got here out [Hugh] was nonetheless alive, it was earlier than the Me Too motion went mainstream … The e-book was very profitable, however I acquired dragged. Now it’s a bit of bit simpler for different individuals to come back out and share their tales.”
The reality behind the fantasy. The Playboy Mansion is the stuff of popular culture legend, however former Playmates have been brutally sincere about what life was actually like there — and the way the late Hugh Hefner handled them. Holly Madison was by no means technically a Playmate, however she did stay with Hefner, who died in September […]
Final month, Madison solely advised Us Weekly that Crystal’s emotions a few rivalry between the ladies whereas they filmed Women Subsequent Door was “completely true.” (Crystal wrote in her memoir {that a} rivalry was created between her and Madison for the fact sequence.)
“I feel the present positively most likely requested her to say sure issues that then pissed me off from a distance,” she confessed in March. “However Crystal and I’ve linked and been good since. She’s additionally completed different issues, so I don’t blame it on the present.”
