The Playboy Mansion has always been a source of curiosity for a lot of people. There have been countless films and television shows which aim to recreate what goes on inside the mansion.

However, the reality of the mansion, especially during the days when Hugh Hefner was still alive, is only known to its inhabitants. And now, one of them is detailing her experience.

Keep reading to know more.

45-year-old Holly Madison was Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend for a while. The former Playboy model appeared on a podcast with Owen Thiele and opened up about her private life.

She went on the record to talk about her sex life with the late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. She said, “Well, it’s a very different story between when we were just by ourselves than with everybody else in the room,” she said.

“Everybody else in the room, no,” she continued, referring to group sex, something she did not enjoy. She shared how she made her discomfort known, saying, “That was disgusting. I hated it. I made it very known I hated it.”

She also addressed her 53-year age gap with Hefner. And she shared that it did not impact their sex life. She said, “If it was just me and him, it was a lot more normal than you would think.” Hefner passed away in 2017 at the age of 91 years old.

Podcast host Thiele expressed his disbelief at the thought that things could be ‘normal’ considering the couple’s big age gap. Madison responded, “Nobody does.”

“There was a time when I couldn’t post anything [on social media] without some dumba– in the comments [being] like, ‘Oh, old balls,’” she said. “Maybe some people’s balls do get old and nasty, but I’ve never seen such a thing,” she shared.

She also mentioned that when doing the deed, her and Hefner always had the lights turned off.

“I mean, there’s a saying: ‘All cats are gray in the dark,’ ” she joked.

Madison and Hefner were together from 2001 to 2008. She has spoken up about feeling pressured to participate in group sex with Hefner in the past.

She has also in the past talked about the odd things she would sometimes see during her time in the mansion. She shared, “They would have these trays everywhere, like in every bathroom, out on the tennis courts, by the pool, and it would be a tray with Kleenex, Pepto Bismol, Vaseline, baby oil, sunscreen — any kind of makeshift lube.” The Playboy model went on,“It was weird.”

“My experiences that played with the negative parts of it are more related to the relationship and the relationship dynamics, both with Hef and some of the other girls,” Madison said.

She clarified that the job itself was not something she disliked, saying, “I 100 percent enjoyed posing for the magazine. I was always a fan of the pictorials. I always wanted to be in Playboy. And I even worked at the studio producing the playmate pictorials for a couple of years, and that was a super fun experience. So, it’s very multifaceted for me.”