Crystal Hefner Said She Was “Constantly Crying” Over Everything At The Playboy Mansion As She Recalled Hugh Hefner’s Animals Wailing For Help Due To Neglect

Five years later, Crystal married Hugh, who was 86 years old at the time, and they remained together until his death in 2017.

Two years ago, Crystal vowed to expose the “complicated and conflicting” truth about what her life with Hugh had really been like, and her brand-new memoir certainly delivers. 

In addition to detailing Hugh’s “controlling” and “restrictive” behavior toward her and the other Playmates, Crystal pulls back the curtain on the unglamorous reality of the mansion itself.

In her book, Crystal says, “Over time, I saw that this place doesn’t really get cleaned that well and there’s mold. It just felt rundown and gross after a while.” 

In fact, the mansion was apparently in such a state of disrepair that when she had blood work done in 2016, doctors told her that it looked as if she was suffering from toxic mold exposure. 

“The whole time the mansion was breaking me down, one way or another,” she writes. “Now it was breaking down my health. The house was literally making me sick.”

Crystal says that Hugh even kept two lovebirds caged in his bathroom that kept dying and getting replaced. 

Eventually, somebody is said to have realized that the birds were dying of thirst because the metal ball in their water dispenser was stuck. 

And the star has now shed some more light on the situation in an interview with People magazine, where she says, “So sad, those little birds. I feel like I was constantly crying for everything and everybody there. It was so sad.”

“I walked in on him with my dog and I said, ‘What are you doing?’ I was shocked,” she recalled. “He made it seem like it was just a one-time thing, and that he was just goofing off. But I never left him alone with my dog again.”

“All the guys were laughing when Linda got out of the limousine,” P.J., who worked at the mansion between 1972 and 1982, claimed, adding that Linda was "drunk and drugged" and "all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a German shepherd shows up."

"They got her so messed up that they made her give the German shepherd oral sex," she continued. "You want to talk about depravity? This is despicable." 

For context, Linda gained notoriety in 1972 for the X-rated movie Deep Throat.

She later alleged that her abusive husband Chuck Traynor had forced her into pornography and prostitution — including holding her at gunpoint and threatening to kill her if she didn’t have sex with a dog on camera. 

Linda then writes, “‘You’d like to see that?’ Chuck said. ‘Hey, no sweat. That’s no big deal for Linda.’”

She added that after this first meeting, Hugh welcomed her and Chuck into his “family,” which meant giving them golden cards that allowed them undisputed access to the Playboy Mansion at any time.