Crystal Hefner claims the animals that lived within the Playboy Mansion had been mistreated and malnourished.
“All those animals were so depressed and sad looking, you walk by the cages and you’re just, none of them were happy,” she stated in a contemporary interview with Folks, which used to be revealed Saturday.
“So sad, those little birds,” she added. “Yeah, I feel like I was constantly crying for everything and everybody there. It was so sad.”
Hefner, who additionally claims the birds within the mansion had been death of thirst in her new memoir, “Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself,” has shared a number of unsettling tales from her days residing within the Playboy Mansion and her marriage to Hugh Hefner.
She first started courting the Playboy mag editor-in-chief in 2008 after she stuck his eye at a Halloween celebration. They walked down the aisle in 2012.
They had been wed till his dying on the age of 91 in 2017. She has since reverted to her maiden title, Harris.
All the way through a special portion of her interview with Folks, Crystal, now 37, described the enduring Playboy Mansion as a mistreated masterpiece.
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“This was a beautiful English Tudor home — and my family is from England — on five acres in the middle of LA,” she recalled.
“But over time, I saw that this place doesn’t really get cleaned that well and there’s mold. It just felt rundown and gross after a while.”
Along with the ancient Los Angeles mansion and the animals inside of its partitions being mistreated, Crystal stated she frequently felt trapped along with her husband’s girlfriends.
As an example, she used to be on a strict 6:00 p.m. curfew.
“The pantry staff would start frantically calling my phone at exactly 6:01 p.m.,” she wrote in “Only Say Good Things.”
“And then I would run in, pushing through the heavy wooden door, and go find Hef, so I could kiss him on the cheek and show him: Here I am, I’m home, I’ve followed the rules.”
She additionally admitted she used to be by no means in love with the mag wealthy person and that she felt she paid a “price” for residing within the mansion.
“It seemed like a world of success and fantasy, but everyone’s having to sleep with an 80-year-old. There’s a price,” she advised Folks.