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Holly Madison Admits 'Girls Next Door' Scenes Are "Triggering" to Rewatch
It wasn't always a enactment astatine the Playboy Mansion.
Holly Madison detailed her relationship, oregon deficiency thereof, with Pamela Anderson amid her narration with Hugh Hefner, who she dated from 2001 to 2008.
"Interacting with Pam successful the opening was a small awkward," Holly explained connected her and Bridget Marquardt's Girls Next Level podcast Oct. 28. "It's not that Pam wasn't nice. It was conscionable that she would bash this weird happening wherever she'd ever travel up to Hef wherever she would tally into him. She'd fawn each implicit him and he's surrounded by each these girls."
"She would enactment similar we did not beryllium connected immoderate level successful specified a weird way," Holly continued. "It was truthful unusual to maine and the lone crushed I'm bringing this up is due to the fact that I retrieve feeling similar it was truthful strange. I wondered what is that each astir and I inactive benignant of wonderment due to the fact that it would alteration aboriginal on. Like she would admit maine a small spot toward the precise end."
But the 44-year-old besides emphasized that she wasn't trying to commencement immoderate play with Pamela—who has graced the Playboy screen 13 times since 1989.
"I'm a instrumentality of hers," she explained. "But oftentimes, erstwhile I'm talking astir mansion experiences, I'll speech astir gathering radical similar Paris Hilton and however she was truthful bully and however she would speech to each of america girls similar we were equals."
And portion Holly doesn't person immoderate sick volition toward the Baywatch alum, she does wonderment wherefore their dynamic played retired the mode it did.
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"Maybe she was astatine specified a weird level of fame wherever radical ever wanted thing from her that she shouldn't consciousness comfy talking to people, oregon possibly she had an acquisition wherever she tried to speech to Hef's girlfriends earlier and it went truly poorly," she said. "I don't cognize what it was, but it was truthful chiseled and weird."
At the aforesaid time, Holly noted that since being diagnosed with autism past year astatine 43, she looks back astatine the aboriginal aughts with a antithetic lens.
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"I consciousness similar the existent absorbing happening astir this communicative is conscionable however otherwise I comprehend the behaviour now," the ma of Rainbow, 11, and Forest, 8, with ex-husband Pasquale Rotella, shared. "Back successful my 20s, if idiosyncratic was truly rude oregon standoffish to me, particularly consistently, I assumed it was a large occupation similar they truly hated maine oregon that they were the world's biggest a--hole oregon something."
"I conscionable don't truly comprehend it similar that anymore," she continued. "I consciousness similar portion of that is conscionable my ain travel with discovering that I'm neurodivergent and recognizing my ain behaviors and what's down that and it affects however I spot different people's behaviors a small differently."
E! News has reached retired to reps for Pamela for remark and has not yet heard back.
Now, support speechmaking to spot wherever each the Girls Next Door alums are now.
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Kendra Wilkinson
Kendra Wilkinson was one of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's 3 live-in girlfriends erstwhile the amusement premiered successful 2005. Fans were so invested successful Wilkinson that she got her ain spin-off show, Kendra, connected E! aft leaving the bid successful 2009.
Her subsequent WE tv series, Kendra On Top, which followed her travel arsenic a parent of two, lad Hank IV (born Sept. 11, 2009) and girl Alijah (May 16, 2014), and her matrimony to NFL player Hank Baskett, who she swapped vows with astatine the Playboy Mansion connected June 27, 2009.
The couple split up successful 2018 and their divorce was finalized the pursuing year. In her latest chapter, Kendra's got a existent property licence and starring connected her ain Discovery+ series, Kendra Sells Hollywood.
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Bridget Marquardt
From investigating the mansion's imaginable haunted past to readying Hef's birthday, Bridget was No. 1. Her tegument was acceptable to beryllium shown connected the Travel Channel's Bridget's Sexiest Beaches and she had cameos successful the likes of Entourage, The House Bunny and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Marquardt's involvement successful the paranormal has come full circle as big of the podcast Ghost Magnet, featuring interviews with celebs who've experienced the unexplainable and different heavy dives into assorted unsolved mysteries. Once portion of an iconic trio, she happily paired disconnected agelong agone with partner Nicholas Carpenter.
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Holly Madison
Holly Madison had a palmy vocation aft her tenure astatine the Playboy Mansion, including competing on Dancing with the Stars before getting her ain show, Holly's World, that centered astir her vocation successful Las Vegas, including her Peepshow residency.
She published a revealing memoir astir her clip successful the Playboy Mansion, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, in 2015, chasing that it with 2016's The Vegas Diaries: Romance, Rolling the Dice and the Road to Reinvention.
The longtime PETA advocator is ma to girl Rainbow (March 5, 2013) and lad Forest (Aug. 7, 2016) with ex-husband Pasquale Rotella.
In summation to participating successful the scathing A&E docuseries Secrets of Playboy, she described having a analyzable narration with her Girl Next Door co-stars on a 2021 occurrence of the podcast Call Her Daddy. "Bridget and I person ever been close," she said. "We've ever been friends since time one. She is [the sweetest]." When asked if she had a narration with Kendra, Holly tersely replied, "No."
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Crystal Harris
While each of the ladies of The Girls Next Door had a peculiar spot successful Hefner's heart, Crystal Harris actually married the Playboy mogul successful 2012, the then-86-year-old's 3rd travel down the aisle. They remained unneurotic until his decease successful 2017.
After Holly spoke retired astir her narration with her co-stars, Crystal was speedy to prime a side. "I was astatine the mansion for a DECADE astir 4 years agone present and these ladies and their play were determination years earlier that," she wrote connected her MeWe account. "So overmuch clip has passed. I broadside with Kendra here."
"Not definite wherefore these women who shared an incredibly uncommon and uncommon acquisition (that volition ne'er beryllium repeated successful our lifetimes) can't get along?" she continued. "Maybe for the aforesaid reasons Holly and Bridget despise maine for perfectly NO reason. I anticipation 1 time we tin each get on and comparison experiences."
Crystal besides became an advocator for Lyme illness consciousness aft announcing she'd been diagnosed with the unwellness successful 2016.
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Kristina and Karissa Shannon
After the archetypal procreation of The Girls Next Door girlfriends left, twins Kristina and Karissa Shannon moved into the Playboy Mansion successful 2009. During the remaining seasons, they celebrated their Playboy Summer Issue successful Vegas, went camping successful the backyard with Hef and prepared for spot parts in Sofia Coppola's Chateau Marmont-set movie Somewhere.
After the amusement wrapped, Kristina and Karissa joined the ninth play of Celebrity Big Brother and opened a salon together, Glam Beverly Hills.
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