Crystal Hefner Details “Emotionally Abusive” Marriage to Hugh Hefner

She found that reliving even the lowest points of her life behind the walls of the Playboy Mansion while writing her memoir was a very liberating experience. 

“I’m in a much better place,” said Crystal, who when not on a book tour is living her best life managing real estate projects and enjoying her lychee farm in Hawaii. “I feel that I will always be a work in progress, but I feel that I finally have true freedom.”

Though interestingly, she noted, it wasn’t until the reactions to her book started rolling in that she thought of her story as tragic.

“I didn’t realize how sad a lot of this was,” she admitted. “A lot of the feedback has been sadness.”

But she ultimately wrote the book because “it was time to tell the truth for my own healing,” Crystal said, “and to hopefully help people caught in the same trap.”

Living at the mansion, “I didn’t know who I was,” she explained. “And when you don’t know who you are, that could be dictated to you by somebody else. And if that’s given to you by someone else, it could also be taken away. So it’s very important for you to have your own power, your own voice. If you’re following your own inner compass, I think that will be very helpful in life.”

Read on for more of the biggest revelations from Crystal Hefner’s memoir, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself: