Hugh Hefner’s 2nd wife, Kimberley Conrad, is talking out against Crystal Hefner, claiming she’s seeking to make “a quick buck” badmouthing the overdue Playboy founder.
“We must be wary of those that try to spoil things because they're no longer profiting from them,” Conrad, who was married to Hugh from 1989 to 2011, said in a remark to TMZ on Friday, January 26. (Conrad shared sons Marston and Cooper with Hugh).
Crystal, for her section, was once married to Hugh, who was 60 years her senior, from 2012 till his dying at age 91 in 2017.
“As a few other folks talk their version of their idea of occasions in hopes of using a wave of headline relevance, and making a handy guide a rough buck, we should all ask ourselves whether or not we need to are living in an atmosphere the place people refuse to take responsibility and use words loosely like ‘pressure’ and ‘live on’ to describe choices they made willingly at a undeniable level in their own lives,” Conrad persisted, claiming Crystal won “notoriety, alternative and money” throughout her dating with Hugh.
In the years following Hugh’s demise, Crystal and plenty of different former Playmates, including Girls Next Door castmembers Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt, have spoken out about their time with Hugh.
Conrad fired back on the damaging stories about her late ex-husband, saying, “If you wish to have to discuss exploitation, that is precisely what these women have achieved with Hef in his later years and at the end of his lifestyles.”
Crystal launched her memoir, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself, on January 23.
Amid the guide’s free up, she talked about feeling “trapped” all through her lifestyles at the Playboy mansion, telling Today that her dynamic with Hugh was “weird and it was arduous. Looking again, he did use me and manipulate me for his own acquire in each means.”
As far as why she waited seven years after Hugh’s demise to free up her book, Crystal mentioned she wanted “time to replicate.”
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“I’ve been in a large number of treatment seeking to determine it out,” she instructed NPR on January 24. “Having issues relationship now and reflecting again, I’m like things affected me more than I spotted, being there in that bubble for a decade. And a large number of folks adopted our lives, and so I figured I need to get these thoughts down. I need to, , write this for them, write this for myself to heal. And optimistically it will probably lend a hand other folks.”
Crystal said she hopes to assist people in “abusive relationships” and educate young ladies about “worth and self-worth.”
“I do know that the Playboy Mansion is an overly distinctive, different position, however some of the classes are universal,” she persisted. “And I think it’s vital ’motive Hef controlled the narrative. And at a definite level you already know that you simply’re dropping your own identity and also you’re dropping yourself. After some time, it eats at you internally.”
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