WARNING: Very foul and offensive language below!
In the past, there has been a lot of bad blood between former Playmates Kendra Wilkinson and Holly Madison, who both lived at the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner (as his “girlfriends”) while shooting TV show The Girls Next Door.
The show ran from 2005 to 2010, and afterwards, Wilkinson moved on and starred in several other reality shows, while Madison wrote a few books, including a memoir about her life in the Playboy Mansion called Down the Rabbit Hole. In fact, Madison is very vocal about her time in the house, much to the disdain of Wilkinson.
On Wednesday, People magazine published an interview with Madison, who said she was “miserable” in the Mansion and suffered horrible anxiety in private while she lived there.
“It was a constant struggle,” she said. “I was trying to sell this image of ‘Oh everything is so great here,’ but I was miserable inside. The Mansion is all about conformity and judgment and following the rules.”
“I didn’t like being a clone,” she continued. “That was definitely something that bothered me the whole time. But the Mansion wasn’t a place where confidence was built. It was a place where manipulation was used to keep everyone scrambling to keep her spot in the house.”
Hefner’s other “girlfriends” at the time, Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt, apparently didn’t provide any support for Madison, either.
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“There was so much competition among the other women,” she said to People. “I learned not to confide in certain people. There was a lot of fear. If I could go back and do things differently, I wouldn’t be scared of people. And I’d push the boundaries a lot more. The number of times I stuck up for myself at the Mansion I could probably count on one hand.”
Wilkinson took to Twitter to blast Madison for her comments to the magazine, saying (very crudely) that Madison had no trouble having sex with Hefner if it meant she would receive a paycheque. Some are accusing Wilkinson of slut-shaming.
She then went into detail about Madison’s “role” in the foursome relationship, and said the only reason she’s experiencing “a lot of fear” is because Wilkinson and Marquardt saw Madison engaging in “nasty s**t.”
During her time dating Hefner, Madison stated that she wanted to marry Hefner and have his children.
During an interview at a Playmate of the Year luncheon in 2008, Hefner said, “I love Holly very much and I think we’re going to be together the rest of my life, but marriage isn’t part of my puzzle. It’s not a personal thing; I just haven’t had much luck with marriages.”
Madison replied to Wilkinson’s remarks in a statement:
“I’ve written a book, The Vegas Diaries, that’s about letting go and moving on,” the statement reads. “About resolving the past so you can live a future. I’ve dealt with my demons and I’ve come out ahead. I can hold my head high and work hard to be the classy and kind person I aspire to be. I want no part of a one-sided argument or feud where one woman lives to demoralize and degrade another woman. For those with unresolved issues, therapy works. You should try it.”
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