Holly Madison is willing to patch things up with Kendra Wilkinson — as long as her former Girls Next Door costar feels the same.
“It would be nice to be on good terms for sure, but I really don’t know where she’s at,” Madison, 45, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the season 3 premiere of The Playboy Murders on Monday, May 5. “I look back at our relationship and what went wrong and I see a lot of fault with executive producers who [were] working on her show and my show after we left.”
Madison went on to explain that “a lot of drama” started around that time, adding that she isn’t sure if Wilkinson, 39, even “knows what our original falling out was all about.”
“I just don’t know how aware she was of it because at the time, the person who was starting a lot of the drama was a person who was giving her a job,” she explained. . “So she doesn’t want to see that.”
If Madison knew Wilkinson’s stance on reconciling their friendship, she said she’d have a better idea of how to best move forward.
Madison and Wilkinson both lived in the Playboy Mansion at the same time while engaging in simultaneous relationships with Hugh Hefner. The pair ended up getting their own reality show, Girls Next Door, alongside Bridget Marquardt — another girlfriend of Hefner’s. The series, which aired for five seasons, gave an inside look to life at the Playboy Mansion and the women’s connection to Hefner.
During their time on Girls Next Door, Madison and Wilkinson were seemingly friends. However, in Madison’s 2015 memoir, she claimed that she attempted to befriend Wilkinson but was pushed away. Madison also called Wilkinson “the fakest person [she’d] ever met.”
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Wilkinson slammed the book, telling Us at the time, “It’s a shame that someone can’t be appreciative of what something like that has given them.”
Madison and Wilkinson’s feud intensified as Madison continued to speak negatively about her experience in the Playboy Mansion. Wilkinson took to social media to call out Madison.
“She wasn’t in fear with that d*** in her ass for a paycheck. That bitch is in fear now knowing so many of us saw her doing some nasty s***,” Wilkinson wrote in a since deleted tweet. “She’s embarrassed and in shame. She was the clean up girl … Hollys job was to get Hef hard again and clean him up with her mouth.”
Wilkinson later apologized after removing the post. Madison, for her part, spoke out about how she was “moving on.”
“I’ve dealt with my demons and I’ve come out ahead. I can hold my head high and work hard to be the classy and kind person I aspire to be,” she said in a statement to Us. “I want no part of a one-sided argument or feud where one woman lives to demoralize and degrade another woman. For those with unresolved issues, therapy works. You should try it.”
Crystal Hefner is vehemently shooting down claims made by Holly Madison about her relationship with late husband Hugh Hefner. On the Monday, May 13, episode of her “Girls Next Level” podcast, Holly, 44, alleged Crystal, 38, left Hugh just days before their 2011 wedding “because she was unhappy with the prenup.” In an exclusive statement […]
With reality TV in the rearview, Madison now serves as the executive producer and host of The Playboy Murders. The docuseries dives into murders that have a connection to the famed adult publication.
“I think it’s truly the most bizarre show that was ever on television because it was something that was packaged as just this family friendly cotton candy cartoon, but it had a really dark underside and a really dark reality that I don’t think people even realized until my book came out in 2015,” Madison told Us. “And there’s two different ways you can watch the show. You can just sit back at it and appreciate the eye candy and the fun stuff we got to do, or you can look at it knowing what was really going on behind the scenes and seeing all those layers.”
As for what fans can expect for season 3, Madison teased that it is “really special.”
“This season we have so many family members involved in the show now that we have two seasons that are up on Max that anybody can binge,” she said. “I think they just speak for themselves so they can see how we portray the cases and portray the victims. And also this season includes a couple of cases that are so layered and complex, more so than cases that we’ve covered before.”
The Playboy Murders airs on Mondays on ID at 9:00 pm ET and streams on Max.
