More than a decade after The Girls Next Door went off the air, Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt are revisiting their controversial time at the Playboy Mansion. The former girlfriends of the late Hugh Hefner are rewatching the E! show for their new podcast, Girls Next Level. “The first three [episodes] were kind of traumatic,” Holly admits. “I looked at myself and thought, ‘She’s a f---ing zombie.’”
Holly, who moved into the mansion in 2001 and was known as “Hef’s No. 1 girlfriend,” and Bridget, who joined her a year later, claim life in his inner circle involved drunken, drug-fueled orgies, hoarding and a cultlike atmosphere. “We were all kind of gaslit and expected to think of Hef as this really good guy,” says Holly, 42. But, instead, the Playboy…
