Kendra Wilkinson and Holly Madison are getting down and dirty in a feud over Madison’s memoir Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny.
The New York Daily News, which calls the book a “tell-too-much,” apparently strongly suggests there are details in the memoir not for the faint of heart, this according to The Inquisitr.
Wilkinson adamantly denies details from the book, calling claims by Madison about her and the two playboy bunnies’ former boyfriend, Hugh Hefner, “disgusting lies.”
Entertainment Tonight previewed a clip from Kendra Wilkinson’s reality TV series Kendra on Top, which shows and angry Wilkinson on her way to confront Holly Madison ranting about the “absurd” rumors being spread thanks to the memoir.
“I’m like, ‘Where did this s–t come from?’” says Wilkinson.
“[Holly] writes a book putting rumors out there about me all over the Internet and stuff. It’s just absurd.”
In Down the Rabbit Hole, Madison claims that Hugh Hefner emotionally abused her, gave her “thigh-opening drugs” and details endless parties, orgies, and rampant drug and alcohol abuse, which Holly claims led her to contemplate suicide.
Hugh Hefner has denied the accusations made in the best-seller. And the public seems to be siding with Kendra Wilkinson. A poll by the Daily News had 72 percent of voters believing Kendra’s version of events over Holly Madison.
In a video clip from her show, Kendra on Top, Wilkinson said she would confront Madison regarding the book. “What Holly is saying is extremely false,” Wilkinson says in the clip. “I’m like, ‘Where did this s*** come from?’ ” Madison published her book, Down the Rabbit Hole, which exposed everything that happened inside the Playboy Mansion including group sex, drug use, and alcohol abuse.
She also said that Hefner manipulated her and pitted the women against each other. Suffice to say, Madison made numerous allegations against her former boss/lover in the memoir. “Someone needs to have a voice against this. Hef won’t do it. He’s too nice of a guy,” says Wilkinson in the clip. “It’s just weird how someone can get away with such a thing.”
Wilkinson also added that Madison should appreciate the lifestyle Hefner had given her instead of criticizing her old life. Additionally, Madison previously said that Wilkinson is a “fake.” This was after Wilkinson said Hefner asked her to be his girlfriend and gave her a house key before he invited her up to the bedroom. Madison claimed none of that happened and questioned the intention of Wilkinson.
“If she thinks I’m fake, then great… it’s not like we were friends in the first place,” Wilkinson said. She also added that the only connection they had is the man they slept with.
“It’s just absurd. Seven years later and this b***h is talking about s**t that happened while I was f***ing 18, 19, and 20,” Wilkinson said.
Meanwhile, Hefner denied all allegations made by Madison in her book, adding it was just Madison’s attempt to “stay in the spotlight.”
Holly Madison had a lot to say about her relationship and subsequent split with Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner.
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey for Oprah: Where Are They Now, which aired Saturday, the former 35-year-old Playboy Playmate, said she finally came to her senses after a rocky seven-year relationship with the 89-year-old Hefner.
“Hef and I started hitting kind of a rocky patch when it became clear that Bridget [Marquardt] and Kendra [Wilkinson] were leaving, they were moving on to new things,” Madison said. “I just had enough and just realized all the delusions I’d been under and that this was no longer the life for me.”
Madison, who wrote a tell-all, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, about her experiences as Playboy Bunny, claimed that that Hefner tried to bribe her to stay. She told Oprah that as she began collecting her belongings from Hefner’s room, she found his will stating that he had left her $3 million, according to E! News.
“It was very clear to me that he’d left that out for me to see, because he was hoping it would change my mind and get me to stay,” said Madison. “But it just kinda disgusted me more than anything because all he can do is say, ‘Oh, here, I’m gonna throw you some money to get you to stay.’ It just grossed me out.”
In June, Madison, who is now married to Pasqualle Rotella and is mother to daughter Rainbow, two, told Us Weekly she decided to write a book detailing her time at the mansion.
“I’ve gotten offers for book deals before, especially right after I left the mansion,” the former Playboy Bunny told Us. “ But I didn’t want to do it then because I didn’t want to do just a tell-all about someone. I wanted this to be my life story — about what I’ve learned and where I’ve gone — and I’ve finally gotten to a place where I felt that I could tell that story.”
Holly Madison’s first book, Down the Rabbit Hole, made the New York Times best-seller list after its release in June. The Girls Next Door alum told Us Weekly that she is writing a second book. The book, tentatively titled If I Had a Date, is about relationships and set for a summer 2016 release.
Holly Madison maintains that in his effort to convince her not to leave him, that Hugh Hefner made her aware of the future disbursement of his will.
Madison was one of Hef’s many girlfriends who lived in the Playboy mansion. She spoke with Oprah Winfrey in an interview that airs today, explaining how seeing her name mentioned in Hugh Hefner’s will made her feel.
“Hef and I started hitting kind of a rocky patch when it became clear that Bridget and Kendra were leaving, they were moving on to new things,”Holly Madison tells Oprah. “I just had enough and just realized all the delusions I’d been under and that this was no longer the life for me.”
She goes on to say she entered High Hefner’s bedroom to gather some of her things she was packing.
“I found on my side of the bed a folder that he left out,” she says. “And in his will, he’d left me $3 million.”
“It was very clear to me that he’d left that out for me to see, because he was hoping it would change my mind and get me to stay,” she adds. “But it just kinda disgusted me more than anything because all he can do is say, ‘Oh, here, I’m gonna throw you some money to get you to stay.’ It just…grossed me out.’”
Holly Madison left Hugh Hefner just the same. She details much of her life inside the Playboy mansion in her book, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny. Hefner hasn’t commented directly on any of Holly Madison’s claims, but has said he has ex-girlfriends “who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight.”
Former fellow Playboy bunny and another of Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriends, Kendra Wlkinson, who starred alongside Holly Madison in The Girls Next Door, slammed the claims Holly Madison made in her book, calling them lies.
“Someone needs to have a voice against this. Hef won’t do it. He’s too nice of a guy,” Kendra Wilkinson says. “It’s just weird how someone can get away with such a thing.”
Holly Madison holds firm to the truths she wrote in her book. Both she and Kendra Wilkinson have been quite verbal about their dislike of each other.
Why do you suppose Holly Madison included the detail about Hugh Hefner’s will in her memoir?
Kendra Wilksinson recently dissed Holly Madison, her former Girls Next Door costar. In a clip for an upcoming episode of Kendra On Top, one former Playboy bunny calls out another.
The clip shows Kendra Wilkinson on her way to confront Holly Madison. Kendra maintains that Holly told “disgusting” lies in her recent memoir, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny.
“What Holly is saying is extremely false,” Kendra Wilkinson says in the clip. “I’m like, ‘Where did this s–t come from?’”
In the book, Holly Madison accuses Hugh Hefner of emotional abuse and even of giving her what she refers to as “thigh opening drugs.” Madison says things got so bad during her time as Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend that she considered taking her own life.
“Someone needs to have a voice against this. Hef won’t do it. He’s too nice of a guy,” Kendra Wilkinson says. “It’s just weird how someone can get away with such a thing.”
Kendra Wilkinson winds up approaching Holly Madison at a book signing in the aforementioned clip.
“This is disgusting,” she says prior to unleashing on Holly Madison. “I’m not going to let this bitch get away with something like that.”
Are you a Kendra On Top fan? Fans will have to watch the upcoming episode to see what Holly Madison’s reaction is to being ambushed at a book signing by Kendra Wilkinson.
Do you believe Kendra’s account of Holly Madison telling lies in her memoir?
Bill Cosby has kept his mouth shut about the scandal that threatens to bring his reputation and business crashing down. His wife has also been silent, leaving onlookers to wonder at the thoughts and motives of both. The most direct news that had come out for a while was from the mouths of unnamed “inside sources” who have lots to say, but nothing to prove.
Then came the deposition. Not a new deposition, mind you, but an older one from the complaints brought by Andrea Constand. Bill Cosby’s replies to the questions in that deposition were sealed by a judge as part of the confidentiality agreement the two parties reached in 2006.
But Constand, who had honored the confidentiality agreement so far, made a motion to a judge to release portions of that deposition anyway, insisting that Bill Cosby had violated the agreement himself by smearing her name in the press in an effort to defend himself against the recent scandal.
“But for Cosby’s repeated violations of the confidentiality agreement and attempt to sway public opinion in his favor this motion would not have been necessary,” Constand’s lawyer wrote.
“The release of these documents will assist other women who have been victimized and bring awareness to the fact that sexual assault is not just committed with a gun or knife but is also committed by mentors who engage in exploitative behaviors.”
The portions of that deposition that the judge agreed to release have dealt a blow to Bill Cosby’s reputation. One of the things that came to light was that Bill Cosby admitted to procuring Quaaludes for purposes of sex with other women. He did not admit to using the Quaaludes to drug women into non-consensual sex, but he was asked about that. The record indicates that Cosby declined to answer that question on the advice of his attorney.
At this point I'd rather have Bill Cosby's quaalude dealer be president than Donald Trump.
But the cat was out of the bag in the press. The headline that ‘Bill Cosby Admits He Used Drugs For Sex’ was splashed everywhere. Few would read far enough beyond that to see that he had not actually admitted to drugging women and raping them.
Add to that the revelation in the deposition that Cosby had taken steps to hide his affairs from his wife, and the damage was inevitable.
Bill Cosby had sex with women besides his wife. He had procured Quaaludes for that purpose. And he had hidden it from his wife, including paying hush money.
The rest of the colors would not matter. Contrary to what Camille Cosby desperately wanted everyone to believe, Bill Cosby was certainly not “the man you thought you knew.”
Now Cosby’s lawyers have come out fighting. His lawyers have come to his aid in the past, putting a stop to an extortion attempt by another woman who may or may not have been his daughter. This time, they are going after the Quaaludes story.
i need a quaalude. wtf is BIll Cosby when u need him?
“Quaaludes were a highly popular recreational drug in the 1970s, labeled in slang as ‘disco biscuits’ and known for their capacity to increase sexual arousal,” wrote one of Cosby’s attorneys.
“There are countless tales of celebrities, music stars, and wealthy socialites in the 1970s willingly using Quaaludes for recreational purposes and during consensual sex. Yet upon the unsealing of those excerpts, the media immediately pounced, inaccurately labeling the released testimony as defendant’s ‘confession’ of ‘drugging’ women and assaulting them,” Cosby’s attorney argued.
“Reading the media accounts, one would conclude the defendant has admitted to rape. And yet defendant admitted to nothing more than being one of the many people who introduced Quaaludes into their consensual sex life in the 1970s.”
Indeed, just last month, former Playboy playmate Holly Madison recounted an incident at the Playboy Mansion where she said Hugh Hefner offered her Quaaludes.
“‘Would you like a Quaalude?’ Hef asked, leaning toward me with a bunch of large horse pills in his hands, held together by a crumpled tissue,” Madison recounts. She turned the pills down.
“Hef did not miss a beat: ‘Okay, that’s good,’ he said, nonchalantly. ‘Usually, I don’t approve of drugs, but you know, in the ‘70s they used to call these pills thigh openers.’”
Cosby’s lawyers may have a point about how Quaaludes were popularly used, but they are likely trying to win a battle that will not turn the tide of the war, at least not in terms of public opinion. Public opinion does not hinge upon reasonable doubt. Bill Cosby’s reputation was based on all the times his family and others had insisted that he was Heathcliff Huxtable.
If Cliff and Clair wanted to joke about hitting the special barbecue sauce, that was one thing. But if Cliff had started making extra batches of sauce to take to other women, that would’ve been an entirely different show.
Kendra Wilkinson and her ex-housemate have gone toe to toe during the last week over who remembers their time at the Playboy mansion correctly.
This isn’t looking good for either Kendra Wilkinson or Holly Madison, since both are dragging the other through some serious mud.
The battle of historical accuracy began when, in Holly Madison’s new book, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, she slammed Hugh Hefner pretty hard.
After Holly Madison painted a picture of lonliness, imprisonment, and even suicidal thoughts in her book, Kendra Wilkinson came to Hef’s defense.
Kendra Wilkinson said, “My perception was that she acted like a First Lady. You know, she had to play a part, play a role every day being there. Like, ‘I have to be this in order to get this.’”
She added, “How could [Holly] want kids and [to] get married to him and then, next thing you know, say these types of things about Hef? It’s just out of revenge, and I feel bad for Hef. But you know what? He’s an amazing human being.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d9autI6O1g
Kendra Wilkinson more recently stated, “Holly, you can tell, had this ulterior motive every minute being at the mansion, and that motive was—it was clear as day—she wanted Hef’s kids, she wanted a piece of Playboy and she wanted to marry Hef for, obviously, his will.”
She added, “That didn’t happen. So what do you think’s going to happen? Revenge. So, we’re witnessing some revenge here.”
A photo posted by Holly Jean Madison (@hollymadison) on
This story just gets weirder as more details come out.
Of course, Hugh Hefner had to finally jump in and defend himself, saying, “Over the course of my life I’ve had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women.”
He added, “Many moved on to live happy, healthy and productive lives, and I’m pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight.”
What do you think of this mess? Do you think Holly Madison is telling the truth or do you believe Kendra Wilkinson?
Kendra Wilkinson is taking time off from the high drama going on in her life to defend her old friend, Hugh Hefner.
Hef was bashed pretty hard in Holly Madison’s tell-all, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, and Kendra Wilkinson says that she remembers things pretty differently at the Playboy mansion.
In the book, Holly Madison claims that Kendra Wilkinson had an outlandish sense of entitlement when she was asked by Hef to move into the masion. However, she says that Wilkinson soon felt trapped.
She wrote of Kendra Wilkinson, “And as it is true with any caged animal, it was dangerous when Kendra grew bored. ‘I’m locked down,’ she would frequently say, referring to her new life behind the gates.”
She added, “At 19 years old, Kendra was stuck with a 9 p.m. curfew, a 78-year-old boyfriend and stricter rules than she had ever had at home … she was just another blonde girlfriend – and life at the mansion wasn’t all she imagined it to be.”
Kendra Wilkinson has now revealed that this wasn’t the case and that Holly Madison isn’t telling the truth about her life in the mansion.
Kendra Wilkinson told People, “My perception was that she acted like a First Lady. You know, she had to play a part, play a role every day being there. Like, ‘I have to be this in order to get this.’ ”
A photo posted by Holly Jean Madison (@hollymadison) on
Kendra Wilkinson then questioned Madison’s motives for writing the book, saying, “How could [Holly] want kids and [to] get married to him and then, next thing you know, say these types of things about Hef? It’s just out of revenge, and I feel bad for Hef. But you know what? He’s an amazing human being.”
What do you think of this feud between Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson?
Holly Madison has released a new book titled Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, and the secrets she’s revealed have Hugh Hefner on the defense.
Madison tells all in the memoir, delving deep into the dirty laundry hidden away in the darkest corners of the mansion and revealing some of the surprising things she witnessed and endured. In it, she talks about Hugh’s sexual appetites, his demands, and how he created drama between the girls living with him. In one passage, Madison writes that Hefner would have a staff photographer take pictures of him with his girlfriends before they went out each night and then had them delivered to each girl the next day, which always stirred up tension and “only amplified the massive pressure to always look perfect and cause the girlfriends to spend hours critiquing their appearances”.
Hugh Hefner released a statement this week after Madison’s book made headlines, saying he feels she “rewrote history” to suit her own needs.
“Over the course of my life I’ve had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women. Many moved on to live happy, healthy, and productive lives, and I’m pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight. I guess, as the old saying goes: You can’t win ’em all!”
But Holly says she was just telling her story to inspire other women who might be in a bad relationship and need to find the strength to get out.
“I fell for his act, hook line and sinker,” Holly Madison said. “I cared about him and always had his back, and always did my best to push his agenda and, you know, be a cheerleader for the brand, but I think people are really underestimating him and they don’t think he’s smart and a manipulator and they think he’s just some kindly old grandpa.”
In the book, Madison paints a very unflattering picture of her former benefactor. She talks about drugs, pressure to stay at the Mansion, and the depression the whole situation caused her.
“Everyone thinks that the infamous metal gate was meant to keep people out,” Holly Madison writes. “But I grew to feel it was meant to lock me in.”
“I learned Hef was the manipulator and that he pitted us against one another,” Madison says. “I realized I wasn’t treated well. I’m done being afraid of people. I don’t have any loyalty to Hef. I haven’t talked to him in four years, so there’s no reason to reach out now. Besides, it’s the truth.”
Hefner is still alive ! My word ! forgot about him
Hugh Hefner has now responded to Holly Madison’s book with a statement to People Magazine.
“Over the course of my life I’ve had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women,” Hefner said. “Many moved on to live happy, healthy and productive lives and I’m pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight.”
“I guess, as the old saying goes: You can’t win ’em all.”
“It wasn’t about having an ax to grind or wanting to get a reaction from him [Hefner], or, you know, inviting him back into my life in any way,” Holly Madison says about her book. “I don’t really care about his response. I wanted to share my story to inspire other women who might be in a bad relationship to get out, or not be branded by bad decisions they’ve made, and take charge of their lives and move on. … I’m definitely not rewriting history. I’m finally telling the truth of my experience. For so many years I tried so hard to be a good girlfriend, and I cared about him and always had his back.”
Holly Madison was specific in her stories about Hefner. She tells of one of the first encounters she had with Hefner.
“‘Would you like a Quaalude?’ Hef asked, leaning toward me with a bunch of large horse pills in his hands, held together by a crumpled tissue,” Madison recounts. She turned the pills down.
“Hef did not miss a beat: ‘Okay, that’s good,’ he said, nonchalantly. ‘Usually, I don’t approve of drugs, but you know, in the ‘70s they used to call these pills thigh openers.’”
@esquire turns out Hugh Hefner is a dirty old pervy man. Who knew?
Madison went on to say that Hefner tried to offer inclusion in his will as incentive for Madison to stay at the Mansion until his death.
“It was there, in black and white,” she wrote. “The will stated that $3,000,000 would be bestowed to Holly Madison at the time of his death (provided I still lived in the Mansion). At the time, it was more money than I’d ever know what to do with… But I didn’t want it. I actually pitied him for stooping to that level. I couldn’t help but be offended. Did he really think he could buy me? I put the folder back on the bed just as I had found it and never breathed a word of it.”
Hefner says Madison is ‘rewriting history’ with her tales. Time will tell how the others named in her book respond.
Holly Madison posed nude for Playboy on several occasions. She even lived in the Playboy mansion with the Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner. The former Girls Next Door star has a message, however, for young girls these days who are interested in following the same path she did all those years ago. She strongly advises against following in her footsteps.
“Girls talk to me all the time about wanting to pose, but these days I kind of advise against it,” Holly Madison said while promoting her new book Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny. “It might seem like something fun and glamorous or rebellious and dangerous in your 20s, but guess what? When you’re 30 or 40, you’re not going to want those pictures floating around.”
“You don’t have control over them—someone else does,” she continued. “They can bring them out of the archives at any time. You don’t have creative control over what the pictures look like. It’s just something people should think about five times before doing.”
Holly Madison made news earlier in June when excerpts from Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny were released. She shares in its pages that she actually contemplated suicide while she was one of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends, and that he offered her drugs on more than one occasion. She also shocked many fans by saying she and Kendra Wilkinson were not friends.
Holly Madison's Surprising Advice to Aspiring Playboy Models: Don't Do It! http://t.co/vhJK8D5btU
“I don’t regret it because I learned a lot from the situation,” Holly Madison said of becoming involved with Hefner when she was in college. “There were some good experiences that came along with the bad and I love where I ended up today. That’s what life is. You can’t really end up in a good place without going through some crazy stuff, too.”
She insists that her book wasn’t written as revenge.
“I wanted a chance to just tell my story and talk about where I was coming from and kind of set the record straight because I feel like everybody else in that situation had the chance to do so and I never did,” she said. “I was just the one who was quiet for so long.”
Holly Madison admits there was a time in her life that she was in love with Hugh Hefner, and that she really wanted to marry him. She has no desire to even speak to him these days, however.
“I absolutely don’t,” she said. “After some years have passed, I don’t really find him to be a very genuine person. I feel like if I were to get on the phone with him, everything out of his mouth would be PR b.s. I just have no desire. I don’t even care what his reaction is to this. I’m doing this for me and I’m doing this so people can learn from my mistakes.”
Hugh Hefner issued a statement to People magazine about Holly Madison’s account of life with him in the Playboy mansion.
“Over the course of my life I’ve had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women,” the 89-year-old said. “Many moved on to live happy, healthy and productive lives and I’m pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight.”
“I guess, as the old saying goes: You can’t win ’em all,” Hugh Hefner’s statement concluded.
Today Holly Madison is a married mother of a little girl. She is about to be thrust back into that sort-of Playboy limelight, however. Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny hits bookstores on Tuesday, June 23rd.
American model and showgirl Holly Madison poured heartaches into her newest memoir, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a former Playboy Bunny.
According to the memoir, life in Hugh Hefner’s hutch was far from the image portrayed on TV.
The 35-year-old former Girl Next Door star who broke up with Hefner in 2008 claimed that she was bullied in the Playboy Mansion.
She also said she was subjected to “ruthless taunting”. After moving in with Hefner and his other girlfriends, Madison lost her self-esteem.
”Prior to moving into the mansion I’d been a fairly confident person, but it didn’t take long for my self-worth to start to crumble,” the model wrote in her memoir.
She also wrote in her memoir how other girls criticized every little thing about her. ”After being identified by the other girlfriends as persona non grata, I had become the victim of their ruthless ‘mean girl-ing.’ During dinners or movie screenings, it wasn’t out of the ordinary for me to overhear their loud whispers criticizing my appearance (my hair, my face, my clothes).”
Madison named her worst enemy in the Playboy Mansion as Kendra Wilkinson who she describes as the fakest person she has ever met.
According to Holly, Kendra had a huge sense of entitlement when she lived in the Playboy Mansion.
“Kendra desperately tried to make each new Playmate who arrived at the mansion her friend — and her friend alone,” Madison wrote.
According to Perez Hilton, Holly and Kendra haven’t spoken in quite some time and have absolutely no plans to do so in the future. As such, Madison is very happy to no longer be in touch with Wilkinson.
In a later part of Holly Madison’s memoir, she wrote her lesson and realization about Hefner stating: “Hef was the manipulator, and he pitted us against each other. I realized I wasn’t treated well. I’m done being afraid of people. I don’t have any loyalty to Hef. I haven’t talked to him in four years, so there’s no reason to reach out now. Besides, it’s the truth.”
Kendra Wilkinson is flying high. With a popular reality TV show gig on Marriage Boot Camp, a weekend of trending news on her name, and a newly-revitalized relationship with her husband, the former Playboy Bunny is doing well.
Kendra caught lots of attention this week, but only some of it was due to episodes of Marriage Boot Camp. Folks who read news rather than just watching TV know that Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett are doing great now. The reality TV crowd will catch up soon enough.
Holly Madison was pretty brutal about Kendra, calling her “the fakest person I’ve ever met.”
According to Madison, the last exchange between her and Kendra was not pretty.
Madison wrote, “Kendra had apparently given an interview to a tabloid explaining that she wasn’t friends with either [myself or Bridget Marquardt] as if she were somehow better than everyone else… Of course I wasn’t going to stoop to her level and address this only on social media, so I decided to text her how I truly felt: that she was a coward and that she tried to act like the ‘real’ girl on TV, but she’s the fakest person I’ve ever met — and that if she had a problem with me, she should have confronted me like an adult instead of just going silent.”
Madison says Kendra Wilkinson responded with:
“WHO ARE YOU???? I DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU! WE WERE NEVER FRIENDS. IT WAS ALL JUST WORK.”
“After that, I deleted her number from my phone,” Madison says. “Kendra and I haven’t spoken since, and I have to say, I don’t miss her.”
But Kendra seems to be taking Madison’s comments in stride. She celebrated her 30th birthday recently, and she is proud of what shape she and her life are in.
On her birthday, Kendra posted to Instagram, saying:
“I’m never looking back and I’m going to enter the next 10 years with my head up high, forgiveness in my heart and domination in my eyes. LOL….Goodbye 20s and HELLO 30s!!!!!! My 20s were just a warm up…”
She could be referring to Hank Baskett’s infidelity with that post. Or she could be thinking about Madison’s new book. Or both.
For her birthday, Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett did some karaoke. Lots of people do that on their birthday. But Kendra Wilkinson brought some VIP company to the club.
Hank Baskett posted to Instagram:
I’m really thinking about taking our #karaoke team consisting of me, @kendra_wilkinson_baskett, @mrjaygalvin, @michaelstrahan and @jaleelwhite on the road. #shuttheplacedown last night for Kendra’s birthday! #GoodTimes with #GreatPeople #FriendsInLowPlaces
Check that list out. It includes Michael Strahan and Jaleel White — that’s Urkel from TV’s Family Matters.
But Hank Baskett did not tag everyone in attendance. Jay Galvin had a longer list of those who joined Kendra Wilkinson for karaoke.
mrjaygalvinJust got #home from #karaoke with @latreal_mitchell @kendra_wilkinson_baskett @hank_baskett @jaleelwhite @jwoww @souleschris @michaelstrahan @officialanneburrell my #concert will be #epic
Kendra Wilkinson just turned 30 years old. Episodes of Marriage Boot Camp, the reality TV show she and her husband Hank Baskett star in, continue to air in a weird time vortex of voyeurism. Show watchers already know that Kendra and Hank have worked out their differences, but they watch the couple go through all the therapeutic differences and episodic cliffhangers just the same.
But a blast from Kendra Wilkinson’s past hit her this week, just as her birthday came whizzing by. Holly Madison released a tell-all memoir.
Madison’s recollections are not kind to Kendra Wilkinson. In one excerpt, Madison describes Kendra as frustrated and clueless.
“Despite my attempts to befriend Kendra, she continued to push me away. Hungry from her own ‘team,’ Kendra desperately tried to make each new Playmate who arrived at the mansion her friend—and her friend alone… At 19 years old, Kendra was stuck with a 9 p.m. curfew, a 78-year-old boyfriend, and a stricter set of rules than she had ever had at home. And now, adding insult to injury, she was finally realizing that she wasn’t as special as Hef made her believe. She was just another blond girlfriend — and life at the mansion wasn’t all she imagined it to be.”
According to the book, after their time at the Playboy Mansion was over, there was no love lost between Kendra Wilkinson and Holly Madison. In fact, their only exchange was pretty vicious. Madison says of Wilkinson:
“Kendra had apparently given an interview to a tabloid explaining that she wasn’t friends with either [myself or Bridget Marquardt] as if she were somehow better than everyone else… Of course I wasn’t going to stoop to her level and address this only on social media, so I decided to text her how I truly felt: that she was a coward and that she tried to act like the ‘real’ girl on TV, but she’s the fakest person I’ve ever met — and that if she had a problem with me, she should have confronted me like an adult instead of just going silent.”
Madison says Kendra Wilkinson responded with:
“WHO ARE YOU???? I DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU! WE WERE NEVER FRIENDS. IT WAS ALL JUST WORK.”
“After that, I deleted her number from my phone,” Madison says. “Kendra and I haven’t spoken since, and I have to say, I don’t miss her.”
I find it very funny that my 79 year old Mamaw loves @KendraWilkinson, cause she don't like anybody!
Now that she is 30 years old, Kendra Wilkinson seems to be looking back on her life. She has had a lot of difficulties in her marriage, which explains the Marriage Boot Camp situation. On her birthday, Kendra posted to Instagram, saying:
“I’m never looking back and I’m going to enter the next 10 years with my head up high, forgiveness in my heart and domination in my eyes. LOL….Goodbye 20s and HELLO 30s!!!!!! My 20s were just a warm up…”
When she speaks of forgiveness, was she referring to Hank Baskett’s past infidelity? Or might she be talking about the more current Holly Madison book? She hasn’t yet said anything overt about the book, but she’s surely heard about it.
Meanwhile, Bridget Marquardt has spoken up, saying, “I like Holly and I’m friends with her. I’m happy for her that she wrote the book.”
Bridget Marquardt hasn’t read Holly Madison’s new book. Still, she seems to be taking a different approach to a tell-all memoir than some might expect.
“I like Holly and I’m friends with her,” Bridget Marquardt told RadarOnline about Madison. “I’m happy for her that she wrote the book.”
Madison’s new book is particularly scathing in its description of Marquardt’s former housemate Kendra Wilkinson. The three women lived in the Playboy Mansion together with Hugh Hefner, attracting tabloid attention and the morbid fascination of a reality TV-besotted public for years. Then each of the women moved on to other career paths, including their own TV shows.
Madison launched into a blistering takedown of Kendra Wilkinson in the book, calling her “the fakest person I ever met.”
“For someone who was all of a sudden trying to act like she was better than Bridget and me, she sure wasn’t above using us for publicity when she needed it,” Madison says of Wilkinson.
She then told of a text message exchange between the two. Holly Madison says she texted Kendra Wilkinson to tell her she was “the fakest person” she had ever met. Wilkinson responded with:
“WHO ARE YOU???? I DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU! WE WERE NEVER FRIENDS. IT WAS ALL JUST WORK.”
“After that, I deleted her number from my phone,” Madison says. “Kendra and I haven’t spoken since, and I have to say, I don’t miss her.”
Bridget Marquardt admits that she hasn’t spoken with Madison in along time, but she takes a different approach to why.
“I haven’t seen or talked to her in years,” Marquardt said. “It is crazy. We haven’t had a falling out or anything. We just haven’t talked.”
Bridget Marquardt recently posted an older photo of herself and Holly Madison. Some see that as an expression of solidarity with Madison.
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Madison also leveled charges at Hugh Hefner, saying that he tried to convince her to stay permanently at the Playboy Mansion by offering to include her in his will to the tune of $3 million, provided she is still living there when he dies.
“I learned Hef was the manipulator and that he pitted us against one another,” Madison wrote. “I realized I wasn’t treated well. I’m done being afraid of people. I don’t have any loyalty to Hef. I haven’t talked to him in four years, so there’s no reason to reach out now. Besides, it’s the truth.”
Marquardt is not commenting on such accusations yet, but just may in the future.
“I haven’t read the book,” Marquardt says, “so I can’t even comment on any of the allegations. But I am definitely going to read it!”
Nowadays, Bridget Marquardt is selling handmade items on Etsy, capitalizing on her reputation from the Playboy days of dressing girly.
“I like giving gifts in elaborately decorated boxes and I want every party I throw to be absolutely spectacular,” Marquardt says on her Etsy page. “I put a lot of love, care and effort into each and every one of my projects. Each item will include a signed Certificate of Authenticity that it was hand-made by me.”
“All of this is brand new for me,” Marquardt says of her business. “Learning to sew and people taking interest in my designs. I really like trying to start a business. It’s fun but it’s all a learning experience.”
Marquardt posted another picture to Instagram showing her working to ship Etsy orders. This post came right after the one with Madison, above. Might Marquardt be a savvy businesswoman who recognizes that traffic about Holly Madison can be steered toward sales? Smart move.
Holly Madison, Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt were famous even before their reality TV careers took off. The trio lived at the Playboy Mansion and were at the beck and call of Hugh Hefner. The world sat aghast at revelations of Viagra-fueled orgies and scandal before the three women came out of the Mansion and into their individual spotlights.
Now Holly Madison is spilling the secrets of life inside the Playboy Mansion, and the picture she paints of the Head Playboy himself, Hugh Hefner, is not a pretty one.
Madison says Hefner offered her pills one of the first times she met him.
“‘Would you like a Quaalude?’ Hef asked, leaning toward me with a bunch of large horse pills in his hands, held together by a crumpled tissue,” Madison recounts. She turned the pills down.
“Hef did not miss a beat: ‘Okay, that’s good,’ he said, nonchalantly. ‘Usually, I don’t approve of drugs, but you know, in the ‘70s they used to call these pills thigh openers.’”
While Kendra Wilkinson has characterized Madison as scheming to get pregnant by Hefner to get rid of the other two girls, Holly says it was Hefner who tried to scheme to keep her from ever leaving. She says he did this by dangling an offer that he thought she couldn’t refuse. Holly found a folder lying on her bed with a document inside.
“It was there, in black and white,” she wrote. “The will stated that $3,000,000 would be bestowed to Holly Madison at the time of his death (provided I still lived in the Mansion). At the time, it was more money than I’d ever know what to do with… But I didn’t want it. I actually pitied him for stooping to that level. I couldn’t help but be offended. Did he really think he could buy me? I put the folder back on the bed just as I had found it and never breathed a word of it.”
While Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt are on good terms, Kendra Wilkinson is not. Madison had choice words for the woman she called “the fakest person” she had ever met, she does admit that she believes that Hugh Hefner himself prodded that distrust and animosity.
“I learned Hef was the manipulator and that he pitted us against one another,” Madison says. “I realized I wasn’t treated well. I’m done being afraid of people. I don’t have any loyalty to Hef. I haven’t talked to him in four years, so there’s no reason to reach out now. Besides, it’s the truth.”
Madison says she was so sick of her life at the Playboy Mansion that she tried to drown herself.
“I just couldn’t take my misery anymore,” she says.
Holly Madison has a new tell-all memoir that could very well cause some big waves. Not only does she talk about her former Playboy Mansion bunkmates, Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt, but about the man who owned the mansion, Hugh Hefner.
When it comes to Hugh Hefner, Madison spares no ire.
“I learned Hef was the manipulator and that he pitted us against one another,” Madison says. “I realized I wasn’t treated well. I’m done being afraid of people. I don’t have any loyalty to Hef. I haven’t talked to him in four years, so there’s no reason to reach out now. Besides, it’s the truth.”
She talks about one specific incident, not long after her arrival at the Playboy Mansion, that made her question whether she had made the right decision in coming there.
“‘Would you like a Quaalude?’ Hef asked, leaning toward me with a bunch of large horse pills in his hands, held together by a crumpled tissue,” Madison recounts. She turned the pills down.
“Hef did not miss a beat: ‘Okay, that’s good,’ he said, nonchalantly. ‘Usually, I don’t approve of drugs, but you know, in the ‘70s they used to call these pills thigh openers.’”
In hindsight, Holly Madison regrets these kinds of moments.
“I want to scream ‘PAUSE!’ and freeze-frame that moment of my life. I want to grab that young girl, shake her back into reality and scream, ‘What the hell are you thinking?’” Madison says.
In fact, she says she was so miserable that she contemplated suicide. “I just couldn’t take my misery anymore,” she admits.
That’s part of why she is writing her book now. She says she wrote it because she wants her daughter, two-year-old Rainbow, to eventually read it.
“I want her to understand why I made the choices I made,” Madison says. “And hopefully learn from them and not make stupid mistakes herself.”
But Holly Madison talks about her tempestuous relationship with Kendra Wilkinson, who is currently patching her marriage with Hank Baskett in view of all onlookers on Marriage Boot Camp.
“For someone who was all of a sudden trying to act like she was better than Bridget and me, she sure wasn’t above using us for publicity when she needed it,” Madison says of Wilkinson.
Holly Madison says she texted Kendra Wilkinson to tell her she was “the fakest person” she had ever met. Wilkinson responded with:
“WHO ARE YOU???? I DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU! WE WERE NEVER FRIENDS. IT WAS ALL JUST WORK.”
“After that, I deleted her number from my phone,” Madison says. “Kendra and I haven’t spoken since, and I have to say, I don’t miss her.”
Kendra Wilkinson has had enough drama of her own in her life, but now she gets to field questions about some things she did not even say.
Wilkinson’s former comrade-in-lingerie, Holly Madison, has a new book on the way. It is a tell-all memoir about her life, including her time in the Playboy mansion with Kendra Wilkinson and Bridget Marquardt. The book is called Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny and is currently racking up pre-orders for a June 23 release.
Kendra Wilkinson is deflecting questions about the contents of the book, but there is a lot there for her to deflect.
“For someone who was all of a sudden trying to act like she was better than Bridget and me, she sure wasn’t above using us for publicity when she needed it,” Madison says of Wilkinson.
Madison’s no-holds-barred tome leaves no one unscathed, including the Big Man himself, Hugh Hefner. In fact, it is Hefner who gets the writer’s ire for turning the three former Mansion dwellers against each other.
“I learned Hef was the manipulator and that he pitted us against one another,” Madison wrote. “I realized I wasn’t treated well. I’m done being afraid of people. I don’t have any loyalty to Hef. I haven’t talked to him in four years, so there’s no reason to reach out now. Besides, it’s the truth.”
Speaking of not having contact in years, apparently Madison and Kendra Wilkinson have not spoken in a long time, either. According to Madison, he last exchange with Wilkinson was not pretty.
Holly Madison says she texted Kendra Wilkinson to tell her she was “the fakest person” she had ever met. Wilkinson responded with:
“WHO ARE YOU???? I DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU! WE WERE NEVER FRIENDS. IT WAS ALL JUST WORK.”
“After that, I deleted her number from my phone,” Madison says. “Kendra and I haven’t spoken since, and I have to say, I don’t miss her.”
Kendra Wilkinson and Holly Madison are both now married and raising children. Kendra Wilkinson’s marital troubles have been the stuff of tabloids for years, including her attempts at fixing them on the Marriage Boot Camp reality TV show.
Kendra Wilkinson’s husband Hank Baskett just wished his wife a happy birthday with a sweet Instagram message.
Holly Madison has now written two books. The first was called The Showgirl Next Door: Holly Madison’s Las Vegas. She says she wrote this most recent one because she wants her daughter, two-year-old Rainbow, to eventually read it.
“I want her to understand why I made the choices I made,” Madison says. “And hopefully learn from them and not make stupid mistakes herself.”
For her part, Kendra Wilkinson is taking the high road.
Holly Madison is shining some light on the dark underbelly of life in the Playboy Mansion.
In Holly Madison’s new memoir, called Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, she details how her life as Hefner’s number one bunny wasn’t always glitter and bunny tails.
Holly Madison said that life as one of Hefner’s girlfriends was portrayed as “incredibly glamorous”, but Madison says instead the bunnies were “vacant” and going through the motions.
Holly Madison claims she was even pitted against her fellow bunnies, making life there dramatic and lonely.
It was so lonely, in fact, that Holly Madison says she even thought about ending her life.
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Holly Madison recalled how she was in the bathtub one night in 2002 thinking, “If I just put my head under water and take a deep breath in, it would all be over.”
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She added, “Maybe it was the pot and the alcohol, but drowning myself seemed like the logical way to escape the ridiculous life I was leading.”
Holly Madison also detailed the extremes that Hugh Hefner would go through to manipulate her into staying.
In her book, Holly Madison told of their first meeting.
She wrote, “‘Would you like a Quaalude?’ Hef asked, leaning toward me with a bunch of large horse pills in his hands, held together by a crumpled tissue. Hef did not miss a beat: ‘Okay, that’s good,’ he said, nonchalantly. ‘Usually, I don’t approve of drugs, but you know, in the ’70s they used to call these pills thigh openers.’”
Class act, all the way.
Will you be reading Holly Madison’s new book? It will be released June 23rd.
Holly Madison talks about her life as a Playboy bunny and one of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends in a new memoir. Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny tells a story that isn’t all excitement and luxury, however. In fact, it highlights some of the darkest days Holly Madison ever experienced.
“…What seemed like a fairytale life inside the Playboy Mansion—including A-list celebrity parties and her own #1-rated television show for four years—quickly devolved into an oppressive routine of strict rules, manipulation, and battles with ambitious, backstabbing bunnies,” the release reads.
“Life inside the notorious Mansion wasn’t a dream at all—and quickly became her nightmare. After losing her identity, her sense of self-worth, and her hope for the future, Holly found herself sitting alone in a bathtub contemplating suicide,” it continues.
“In this shockingly candid and surprisingly moving memoir, this thoughtful and introspective woman opens up about life inside the Mansion, the drugs, the sex, the abuse, the infamous parties, and her real behind-the-scenes life with Bridget [Marquardt], Kendra [Wilkinson], and, of course, Mr. Playboy himself.”
One would never have suspected during Holly Madison’s heyday in the Playboy mansion that life was so incredibly different behind closed doors. It makes one wonder if some types of sexual abuse might not have taken place, too.
Fortunately for Holly Madison, life is much different these days. She is married to Pasquale Rotella, and is the mom of a little girl named Rainbow.
Will you be picking up a copy of Holly Madison’s memoir? It certainly sounds like a lot went on in the Playboy mansion that might be divulged within the pages of her book. Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny goes on sale June 23rd.
Kendra Wilkinson flushed her wedding ring down the toilet when rumors surfaced about hubby Hank Baskett cheating on her with transsexual model Ava London. Now the former Playboy bunny and ex-gifriend of Hugh Hefner has a new one in its place–one she made Hank buy for her in an effort to prove his love.
“Kendra is committed to making the relationship work, and so she wanted to wear a big ring that would send a signal to everyone that she’s married and is staying married,” one source explains. “She wanted something new and sparkly and she got what she wanted.”
Kendra Wilkinson got a rather impressive ring out of this deal. One might think that’s all she demanded. But she demanded something else of Hank Baskett recently, too.
Hank Baskett will no doubt think twice (probably even three or four times) before involving himself in any situation that might be perceived as cheating in the future. Between getting banned from the gym and coughing up what had to be big, big bucks for Kendra Wilkinson’s new ring–it’s simply not worth his effort.
Do you think Hank really cheated on Kendra Wilkinson? That issue has never officially been resolved.