Hugh Hefner's Widow Reveals What Life Was Like Inside the Playboy Mansion | This Morning

At twenty-one years old, Crystal Harris's life changed forever when she attended a party at the Playboy Mansion. Hugh Hefner picked her out from the crowd, and she soon became one of his infamous ‘girlfriends’, travelling the world and attending glamorous parties. She was then only 26 when she married the infamous Playboy, who was then 86. Now six years after his death at 91, widow Crystal Hefner has written a memoir revealing the truth and toxic power plays behind the ‘glamour’ of living in Hollywood’s most famous Mansion.

Broadcast on 06/02/2024

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[shalee]

not getting enough love as a child was the most enlightening moment of the interview and explains everything for so many people, including hef.

[shirleyski]

A book, how not shocking!! She’s out for attention what’s new, , , she knew exactly what she wanted and did married him! Such B.S.
She has NO MORALS!!

[thepopfiles]

Any person who thinks it’s acceptable to trade money for gains, you make your own bed. No one, him or her are clean. She was complicit. If an old man approached me, I wouldn’t be shacking up no matter what luxuries he could provide. But they trade their dignity for money, because they’re so uneducated and vacant that their ideology is riches and fame. Who feels sorry for that? Who feels empowered by that?

[galloping]

Abuse of women and girls is not easily understood, even by the female victims themselves. Human psychology begin at birth. The pre-verbal years are the most formative.
"Judge not lest ye be judged", said a very kind man long ago.
You who are perfect, cast the first stone, yeah?

[jacquelineglitter]

You both used each other. Older men always grossed me out and rich men couldn't buy me.

[SuperBikeRacer]

This was her best interview so far, perhaps because it was short or maybe she's looking at the comments because it's the first time she didn't make any passive aggressive comments towards Holly when friendships with the other women were brought up.

[pleco]

~ 10 years of making bank - OK - Now it's time to reach out, now that he's dead and make more bank and talk about the horrid things I had to deal with....
I think she's savvy and knows how to market herself. The same way Hugh Hefner did.

[inyourgenes]

"What first attracted you to the multi-millionaire Hugh Hefner?"

[dawnsinclair]

I always thought he was a sick individual 😢

[CLP]

Funny how after a decade of marriage, when the money ran out, she was a " victim", what an absolute disgrace to humanity

[dorishenderson]

She sent in a photo but she never thought that she would be 'chosen'. If you look at all her photos she had a lovely body and pretty and blond.

[marsharouse]

He was such a predator. Love and Light to all of the women moving forward. ❤

[myrawest]

I'm so surprised by how vicious the comments are

[maryanderson]

You were happy to have the high life and the money at the time, now you are making money on it still. You could have walked away at the time

[gift]

stop playing the victim and make money out of it. You ALL deserve one and another. He uses you and you use him, so what?

[diormorgs]

She put holly Maddison down for years !! about talking about her experience in the mansion .

But it’s ok for her too ? X

[lisakemp]

You’re not trying to be friends with Bridget ! You were horrible to her on your social media

[richardsmith]

His children must have cut her off financially and she out of money.

[lovelyshirl]

"I idolized people like Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra when I was growing up ".What's REALLY sad is that those were your shallow and vacuous. 🤮

[jujutrini]

“All was not as it seemed” - Nope, it sounds exactly as it seemed!