Holly Madison Compares Living In The Playboy Mansion To Being In A Cult

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Holly Madison is spilling all the tea about her time living in the Playboy Mansion. In the upcoming A&E docuseries “Secrets of Playboy”, the “Girls Next Door Star” doesn’t hold back about the experience of being one of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s multiple live-in girlfriends. “The reason I think the mansion was very cult-like, looking back on it, is because we were all kind of gaslit and expected to think of Hef as, like, this really good guy,” Madison says in a clip from the upcoming series. READ MORE: Holly Madison Says Hugh Hefner Was ‘Constantly’ Taking Explicit Photos Of Her And Other Women Who Were ‘Heavily Intoxicated’ “You started to feel like, ‘Oh, he’s not what they say in the media — he’s just a nice man,'” she added.

According to Madison, another way that living in the Playboy Mansion was like being trapped in a cult was the way they were kept away from friends and family. “Another thing that reminds me of a cult is how it was so easy to get isolated from the outside world there,” she explained. “You had a 9 o’clock curfew, you were encouraged to not have friends over,” she explained. “You weren’t really allowed to leave unless it was, like, a family holiday.” “Secrets of Playboy” premieres Jan.