CRYSTAL HEFNER - MY NEW LIFE

HUGH HEFNER'S WIDOW REVEALS HOW SHE'S MOVED ON FROM HER TOXIC MARRIAGE

- Phillip Koch

Looking more Girl Next Door than Playboy bunny, a tanned and relaxed Crystal Hefner laughs out loud when asked if she would want any daughter of hers to pose naked for a men’s magazine, let alone marry a famous man 60 years older than her. “I don’t even know if Playboy will still be around when I have a daughter. I feel like it’s going down the tubes,” predicts Crystal, 37, who claims the experience left her suffering PTSD – and desperate to escape the “toxic and empty” mansion.

The former centre-fold famously married Hugh Hefner in 2012 when she was just 26 and he was 86 – after meeting him three years earlier and moving into the Playboy Mansion to share him with his 18-year-old twin girlfriends, Karissa and Kristina Shannon. “I think it’s important to tell the story from a different lens other than Hugh Hefner’s lens,” Crystal tells WHO magazine from the “tiny house” she now calls home in Hawaii, where she went to recover and heal after his death in 2017 at age 91.