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Sept. 5, 2023 - Candace Owens
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My Thoughts on Crystal Hefner's Book
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I have a weird take on this story, and I want to be clear.
I have no issues with any of the Playboy girls, the people that were in Hugh Hefner's house, and I also want to be very clear right off the top, that I think Hugh Hefner was a pervert his entire life, and he died a pervert.
So this is not—please do not think this is any justification for how I'm interpreting the story to— Say or to suggest in any manner that I think Hugh Hefner was a good man who was just living out his life and now is being thrown under the bus.
But you have seen that since he has died, a lot of his former girlfriends have come out with books and radio shows and podcasts talking about what it was like to live in his house.
It's, to me, interesting that you wait until somebody's dead to come out and say this.
But they're kind of using this I was brainwashed.
I don't know what was happening. And I was taken advantage of.
And one such person is Crystal Hefner.
Crystal Hefner, in case you aren't keeping up with the Playboy bunnies, was the last Hugh Hefner main girlfriend.
Obviously, he did not hide the way he lived.
In fact, he welcomed cameras into it.
VH1 had an entire show called The Girls Next Door.
So the way that it worked was he had three girlfriends at the house.
Then he would have one who he treated as the main girl, who he treated as his wife.
And at one point, that girl was Holly Madison.
After the show fell apart, he met another girl who he began treating like his wife and then eventually married, and her name was Crystal Hefner.
Her name is Crystal Hefner, obviously, because they actually got married.
And she is now coming out and giving us all the details of what went on in the Playboy Mansion.
She's telling us that he took so much Viagra that it made him deaf.
She describes the hell of living with him.
She's now 37 years old, just so you know.
Talks about how he would impose 6 p.m.
curfews so that she would stay home and that she would share soup with him.
And by the way, I want to be clear.
I believe every single thing that she is saying that went on in this house, like I said, he was not exactly a person who hid his lifestyle.
He was someone who was very proud of his lifestyle.
He was happy to be a pervert.
Obviously, he kind of came up in the 70s when it was a little more acceptable to be a pervert
out in the open and people actually aspired to be like him.
I think that he has a legacy where there still are a lot of men who aspire to be like him
and who just always want to have a young woman on his arm.
She was one such young woman.
The thing that I find interesting about her story and why I wanted to talk about it is
because she's writing this book called Only Say Good Things because this is what Hefner
asked her to do before he died.
But it's not a request that she can fulfill, she says.
And so she's now going to be forthcoming in this memoir.
And she says that she graduated college.
She was doing a year, pursuing her graduate year, her graduate degree, pardon, in psychology when she decided to try to get tickets to the Playboy Halloween party.
So you can imagine if you're living in San Diego as she was, the thing to do was When you are younger to try to get into the Playboy Mansion for a Halloween party.
And that's where she went.
And the rest is history. I'm assuming she dropped out of school.
She then became his girlfriend, the main girl.
And then they eventually wound up getting married.
And this is where I... I just have a little bit of an issue here because I was a 21-year-old young girl before.
And the thing that I take issue with is people recategorizing the decisions that they made because they were young and they were stupid and they were immature.
But undoubtedly, they were decisions that they made and pretending that suddenly they're victims, right?
She's not saying that she came from a trailer park.
She's not saying that she didn't have any access.
She didn't find her in a strip club.
She's saying that she was 21 and she wanted to go to a cool party.
We've all been there before. I've been very open with you guys about the amount of Red Bull vodka that I consumed from the ages of 18 to 23, probably ages 18 to 24, if I'm being honest.
I've been very honest with you guys about me waiting outside of a line at One Oak and, you know, wanting to dance at a bar next door at the electric room until 3 a.m.
in the morning while I was living in the city in my early 20 years.
But I don't pretend to recast those decisions as well.
I was a victim when I was taken advantage of, like, why did the bouncer let me in at 1 a.m.
after I had consumed eight Red Bull vodkas?
He shouldn't have let me in. I just, I really have an issue with women pretending that they're stupid, right?
That they didn't do anything to contribute to where they ended up.
Because I had these friends.
There were some of us that wanted to go out and wanted to go to the bar and wanted to go to the club and wanted to party with our girlfriends and dance all night and then go back home.
And then there were the girls that were looking for powerful men.
I have these friends.
I had a best friend who I lost because she became one of these girls.
We went out to a bar. She met a rapper.
And then she became a groupie for the next 10 years of her life, literally.
I haven't spoken to the girl in 10 years, probably.
I ran into her, and her life is horrible.
She now works at the Four Seasons, checking people in.
And she had so much potential, but she thought that she could exchange her sex and her youth for power.
And it didn't work out for her. Well, in the circumstance of Crystal Hefter, it actually did work out for her.
She exchanged her sex and her youth for power.
This is a normal dynamic between men and women.
Women think, oh, he's going to take care of me.
He's powerful. I'll never have to want anything in my life.
I don't have to do anything. And men think, she's hot, she's sexy, she's young.
And I'm sorry.
That's how it works.
What she negotiated with Hugh Hefner, and she's doing it post-mortem.
Again, doesn't take away from the fact that I think he's a pervert.
I think he's gross. I think he died a pervert.
And I think that he should never have been somebody that was ever celebrated.
But I also want to say that women know what they're doing.
They know what they're doing when they're young.
And some women want to skip the part of having to work hard in their 20s and just arrive at having success.
And that's the truth. All right, guys, if you like this video, you are definitely going to like the full episode even better.
You can find it by clicking right here.
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