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In a tell-all memoir, Crystal Hefner recounts her former days as a Playboy model and the third (and last) wife of Hugh Hefner. She left the infamous Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles about seven years ago, not long after Hefner died in 2017.
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Before Hugh Hefner died, Crystal writes in the book, he made her promise him to “only say good things.” She used that plea as the title of her new memoir, “Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself.”
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Hefner, 37, said she is still adjusting to life outside the mansion, where she lived for almost a decade and where she “was rewarded for being small.” She’s been trying to shed the conditioning that she endured within its lavish walls. “Coming into power is a work in progress,” she said.