Holly Madison spent seven years as Hugh Hefner's live-in girlfriend at the Playboy mansion. But in her new book, Down the Rabbit Hole , Madison writes in detail about just how horribly Hef treated not only her but all of his live-in girlfriends, and how terrible her life in the mansion in what was at best a semblance of a romantic relationship with him truly was. Among the odious rituals Hef's girlfriends were expected to participate in regularly, Madison writes, was the "bedroom routine. According to Madison and some details have been echoed by other former girlfriends , the ritual would begin with them putting on matching pink flannel pajamas.
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While Holly Madison already opened up about her experience as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends in the tell-all book "Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny," she revisited some of the highs and lows from that time on this week's Call Her Daddy podcast. Madison first explained how she wound up at the mansion in the first place, saying she scored an invite after working a gig for Hawaiian Tropic. As she started going to more parties, Hef's girlfriends invited her out with them for a night. At the time, she was "failing at everything" in Hollywood, had bad credit and was crashing with a friend. Drawn in by what she felt was a "welcoming" community, Holly also thought she might "have a safe place to live" for a bit if she took them up on their offer. On their first night out, she said Hef tried offering her Quaaludes, which he referred to as "thigh openers. Madison said she would get really drunk and added that marijuana was popular in the house -- claiming she couldn't "remember a time in the bedroom I wasn't wasted.
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Ex-bunny Holly Madison reveals what life was like with Hugh Hefner. Playboy bunnies have revealed what life was really like inside Hugh Hefner's sex-fuelled home — including telling all about their "brief" romps with the Lothario himself. With its fluffy white carpets, pink walls, puppies and even a zoo, to the outside world the Playboy Mansion sounds like some kind of fun-filled wonderland for adults. However, not everyone who worked for the multi-millionaire magazine magnate claims they lived a fairytale lifestyle at his infamous estate in Holmby Hills, California. Over the years, multiple Playmates have spoken out about their lives in the world's most famous bachelor pad — making it pretty clear it wasn't all fun and sex games.
Now 41, the aspiring model's earlys dream of glamour quickly turned into an ugly nightmare — where she claims she was cut off from the outside world and strictly controlled. Madison, who was with Hefner between and , published an explosive memoir about her time with him and Playboy called Down the Rabbit Hole in The series will dramatise what Madison saw going on behind the gates of the Playboy Mansion — where young women were given drugs and encouraged to take part in twice-weekly orgies with Hefner. She was just 20 and still at university when she met a friend of Hefner's while working as a waitress at Hooters. The friend invited her to a party at the Playboy Mansion — she thought it would be a one-time thing, but soon found herself going to its Sunday pool parties every week. After a year, she decided to try and become one of Hefner's girlfriends in order to continue living in Los Angeles. She thought none of them actually had sex with the ageing porn mogul, who was then in his mids. But she quickly lost any illusions during her first "Club Night" out with Hefner and the other girlfriends when he offered her a Quaalude, telling her: "in the '70s they used to call these pills 'thigh openers.
