Someone is finally coming to Hugh Hefner‘s defense! And it’s honestly a pretty hot take…
18.01.2024 - 23:05 / perezhilton.com
At the end of his life, Hugh Hefner had an “earthquake supply” of prescription painkillers at the Playboy Mansion, per his ex!
The problem was so bad, and the opiates were around in such high numbers, that the late Playboy mogul’s widow Crystal Hefner worried he’d die of a drug overdose. Of course, Hefner died back in 2017 at the age of 91 after suffering from sepsis brought on by an infection. But for his wife, an opioid-related death seemed like a real possibility for a long time.
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The 37-year-old former Playboy Playmate is recounting all that now in her forthcoming autobiography. The memoir, entitled Only Say Good Things, is due for release next Tuesday. But according to The US Sun, who got their hands on a copy of her book nearly a week early, Crystal harbored serious drug addiction concerns regarding her late husband.
Hef first got hooked on painkillers “legitimately,” as Crystal writes in the book. He had been having serious back pain and was seeking salvation. Initially meaning well, doctors prescribed him opioids to treat the pain. But soon, the problem spiraled completely out of control. For one, Crystal accuses unscrupulous docs of blanket-approving monthly refills of Percocet pills long after the initial prescription expired. Even worse, the woman — who became Hef’s third wife when they wed in 2012 despite a shocking 60-year age gap — alleges docs happily provided Hef with a backup stash of extra pills in case he ever ran low.
Obviously, opioid deaths have regrettably swept across the nation. We’d just never heard of the late magazine mogul being linked to the epidemic — Crystal’s claim is the first of its kind about Hef. NOBODY
Someone is finally coming to Hugh Hefner‘s defense! And it’s honestly a pretty hot take…
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Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself,” the media mogul said, “I’m OK,” as he was being injected with antibiotics through an IV. While Hugh’s death at 91 had been initially ruled as “natural causes,” Crystal writes, her spouse spent his final days fighting an “aggressive” E. coli infection that was “highly resistant to antibiotics and difficult to treat.”The former Playboy Playmate, 37, told People magazine that she was never actually “in love” with her late husband.“At the time I thought I was on top,” she said.
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Hugh Hefner’s death in 2017, former playmate Kendra Wilkinson was getting high at a Sublime concert.“Look, at the end of the day, I owe Hef nothing,” the 38-year-old told People, adding that she “smoked a lot of weed” at the time.It is only now, two decades after she became one of Hefner’s girlfriends at the age of 18, that Wilkinson, who was hospitalized and diagnosed with depression and anxiety in September, is addressing her trauma and “demons” as a result of her five-year stint at the mansion.She admitted that Playboy “messed up her whole life.”“I got into deep regret [afterwards]. I got to that point where I started hating myself [and asking], ‘Why did I have sex with Hugh Hefner?’” she said.
Crystal Hefner reveals in her memoir that she found “little spy holes” at the foot of her late husband’s bed, evidence he was taping his sexual escapades.“When I asked him about them, he just shrugged,” she writes in the new tell-all, “Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself,” out Jan. 23. “‘But what are they for?’ I asked.“‘I used to do a lot of filming,’ he said proudly.
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the death of Hugh Hefner, his widow Crystal Hefner is coming clean.The model, 37, was married to the Playboy founder from 2012 until his death at 91 in 2017.Crystal’s new memoir, “Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself,” will be out Jan. 23 and ahead of its release, she pulled back the curtain on her life as a Playmate.She got candid with People before the tell-all’s publication and admitted that she was never actually “in love” with her late husband.The then-21-year-old was invited to stay at the Playboy Mansion in October 2008 and she entered into a relationship with Hefner months later.She even appeared on the E! reality series about the Playmates,“The Girls Next Door.”“At the time I thought I was on top,” she said.