14 DAY TRIAL // Former Playboy Bunny Holly Madison, perhaps one of the most famous girlfriends of media mogul Hugh Hefner, is speaking out on her years at the Mansion, in a new, explosive tell-all called “Holly Madison: Down the Rabbit Hole.”
The book will be out on June 23, but Harper Collins has released the artwork and a synopsis to Us Weekly. Safe to say, it doesn’t make The Hef look good, not at all.
Life at the Mansion was a “nightmare”
Holly Madison shot to fame around 2005, when she and the other 2 women Hefner was keeping as “girlfriends” at the time got their very own reality show, The Girls Next Door, which would run for 4 full seasons.
Madison was always considered the number 1 girlfriend, while the other two came second, and she always maintained a friendly relationship with Hefner, even after they broke up. She never bad-mouthed him and even came to his defense later, when fiancé Crystal Harris would leave him at the altar.
For some reason, Holly seems bent now on going up against the man who made her a star, by talking about how life at the Mansion was actually a “nightmare.” “After losing her identity, her sense of self-worth, and her hope for the future, Holly found herself sitting alone in a bathtub contemplating suicide,” the promotional note from Harper Collins reads.
Apparently, life at the Mansion and especially as one of Hefner’s girlfriends, implied a very strict routine and rules that were never meant to be broken, being manipulated and involved in countless fights and backstabbing with the other Bunnies.
The promo doesn’t say who did the manipulating, but there’s a hint that it was Hefner and not the other Bunnies.
Why now?
“I think my stories will surprise people and I’m looking forward to lifting the veil of mystique and clearing up the misconceptions so often associated with my life,” Holly says in a statement to Us Weekly.
She doesn’t say why she chose this exact moment to lift said veil, but considering she’s not the only Bunny to come out with such a sordid tale about life at the Mansion in the past few months, it could be that their NDAs have ended.
Kendra Wilkinson recently appeared on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here and she used her time in the jungle to go into the graphic details of her intimate life with Hefner, and how the girls at the Mansion were supposed to go out of their way to please him.
She also said that she needed to get drunk or high for the act, implying that it grossed her out to have to touch an old man, if only for a couple of minutes.
As expected, Kendra’s revelations made headlines, and prompted the question: why now? Why keep your silence for all these years only to throw that same old man (only now older) who made you into a star under the bus?
Since Holly is doing it too, only months apart from Kendra, the obvious answer seems to be “because their NDAs have expired.” They can now talk freely about their time at the Mansion and not have a lawsuit hanging over their head.