Hugh Hefner’s ex Kimberley Conrad is speaking out against Crystal Hefner
Hugh Hefner‘s second wife, Kimberly Conradspeaks out against Crystal Hefnerclaiming that lately she has been trying to make a “quick buck” by bad mouthing Playboy founder.
“We must be wary of those who try to destroy things because they no longer benefit from it,” Conrad, who was married to Hugh from 1989 to 2011, said in a statement to TMZ on Friday, January 26. (Conrad shared sons Marston and Cooper with Hugh).
Crystal, for her part, was married to Hugh, who was 60 years her senior, from 2012 until his death at age 91 in 2017.
“While a few people express their version of their idea of events in the hope of a wave of headline relevance and a quick buck, we should all be asking ourselves if we want to live in an environment where people refuse to take responsibility and using words like ‘coerce’ and ‘survive’ to describe choices they voluntarily made at some point in their own lives,” Conrad continued, claiming that Crystal had gained “fame, opportunity and money” during her relationship with Hugh.
Hugh Hefner’s love life was unconventional, but his marriage to Crystal Hefner seemed to normalize him before his death in September 2017. The Playboy mogul was married twice before he and Crystal married in December 2012 and was the father of four adult children. While he and Crystal had a rocky road to the altar, […]
In the years following the deaths of Hugh, Crystal and many other former playmates, including Girls next door actors Holly Madison And Bridget Marquardthave spoken out about their time with Hugh.
Conrad shot back at the negative stories about her late ex-husband, saying, “If you want to talk about exploitation, this is exactly what these women did to Hef in his later years and at the end of his life.”
Crystal has released her memoir, Only say good things: Surviving Playboy and finding myselfon January 23.
When the book came out, she said she felt “trapped” living in the Playboy mansion Today that her dynamic with Hugh “was weird and difficult. Looking back, he used and manipulated me in every way possible for his own gain.”
As for why she waited seven years after Hugh’s death to release her book, Crystal said she “needed time to think.”
“I went to a lot of therapy to figure it out,” she said NPR on January 24. ‘I’m having trouble dating now and when I look back I feel like things affected me more than I realized because I was in that bubble for ten years. And a lot of people were following our lives, and so I thought I should put these thoughts together. I have to, you know, write this for them, write this for myself to heal. And hopefully it can help other people.”
Crystal said she hopes to help people in “abusive relationships” and teach young women about “value and self-worth.”
“I know the Playboy Mansion is a very unique, different place, but some of its lessons are universal,” she continued. “And I think it’s important because Hef controlled the story. And at some point you realize that you are losing your own identity and that you are losing yourself. After a while it eats away at you inside.”