Following the claims made by Holly Madison about her stay in the Playboy Mansion and the truth behind her relationship with Hugh Hefner, another bunny is stepping out to share her side of the story.
Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett, who was one of Hef’s three girlfriends on, The Girls Next Door, with Madison, defended Hefner in a People Now interview. It seems she had a lot to defend, as Madison made many harsh remarks about the Playboy mogul as well as Kendra herself in her new novel, Down the Rabbit Hole.
Madison alleged that Wilkinson-Baskett,
“is the fakest person I’ve ever met…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.”
She went on, confessing that Wilkinson-Baskett lied in her own book Sliding Into Home,
“In Kendra’s book Sliding Into Home, she describes Hef asking her to be a girlfriend and handing her a house key before he invited her up to the bedroom. Now, I don’t know if Kendra is trying to sound extra-desirable, innocent, or if her memory is just super rusty, but of course that’s not how it really went down. He isn’t stupid. He never asked anyone to become a girlfriend before they joined him in bed. And he never made a habit of carrying around extra sets of room keys.”
Now, Wilkinson-Baskett responded to the claims Madison made in a People Now interview on Tuesday.
“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.’ I feel bad for Hef. He’s an amazing human being. Holly, you can tell, had this ulterior motive every minute being at the Mansion, and that motive way—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.”
Kendra then slammed,
“That didn’t happen. So what do you think’s going to happen? Revenge. So we’re witnessing some revenge here.”
It’s hard to believe Madison’s publishers would be able to release a novel so scandalous unless they had real evidence to back up their claims in case Hefner sues for defamation. In the past, other Playboy bunnies and girlfriends of Hefner have spoken out about strange happenings in the Mansion that line up with what Madison wrote.
Perhaps time will tell for sure who is telling the truth.
