Hugh Hefner took so much Viagra, he went deaf before death, widow Crystal claims
Hugh Hefner’s priority remained his penis until the very end, according to his widow, Crystal Hefner.
The former Playboy model claims in her upcoming memoir, “Only Say Good Things,” that the late publishing mogul took so much Viagra, an erection-inducing drug, to keep his sex life alive that he eventually went deaf in one ear.
“Hef always said he’d rather be deaf and still able to have sex,” she writes in the book (via the Daily Mail). “Weird.”
Hearing loss in one or both ears is a known side effect of prolonged Viagra use, according to multiple studies.
Crystal met Hugh when she was 21 and he 81. She reveals that, despite believing her dreams came true upon moving into the Playboy Mansion, her reality was far more bleak.
The Playboy founder allegedly controlled every detail of Crystal’s life down to her nail polish color — sheers and light pinks — but also made her and the other Bunnies participate in orgies.
“It was embarrassing. I don’t know the most people there’d been in our bedroom at one time but — a lot. Pretty bad,” she recalls.
“We were like, ‘Oh, now it’s your turn.’ Nobody really wanted to be there but I think in Hef’s mind, he still thought he was in his 40s, and those nights, the people, the mansion, solidified that idea. He felt, ‘I’ve still got it.'”
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The former psychology student also dishes on her very first night with Hugh, which she blasts as “unremarkable.”
“Whatever you would like, whatever you would think, or however you would want a night to go, well, it wasn’t that,” she writes in her tome, which hits stores in January 2024.
Hugh died in 2017 after suffering cardiac arrest while battling E. coli. He was 91.
Crystal mourned his death with an emotional statement about her grief, adding that he “saved” her life and made her “feel loved every single day.”
“I will feel eternally grateful to have been by his side, holding his hand, and telling him how much I love him,” she said at the time.
However, in the years since his death, Crystal has said she’s been “deprogrammed.”
“It’s called ‘Only Say Good Things’ because I [had] a conversation with Hef and he let me know: ‘Once I go, when I’m gone, please only say good things about me,’” Crystal told The Post in July of her book.
“I kept that promise for the last five years. After going through a lot of therapy and healing, I realized that I needed to be honest about my time there. The book is about healing from a toxic environment.”
