Holly Madison: Life After Playboy

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Holly Madison joins us for a candid conversation about life during and post her seven-year residency at the Playboy Mansion. From the complicated reality of the relationship she was in, to the impact of Girls Next Door on her life (despite not being paid for the show until season five)! Holly opens up about rebuilding her life in Las Vegas, as shared on her spin-off show, Holly's World. She looks back on the backlash to her opening up about the abusive nature of her relationship with Hugh Hefner, initially with her book, Down the Rabbit Hole, and later in the wake of his passing and the Me Too Movement. We reflect on friendships and other iconic women throughout Playboy history, and what it's meant to revisit these GND years through her own podcast, Girls Next Level. Find me on socials!! https://linktr.ee/literallylaurad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I started listening to Weather in Heights to help me fall asleep.
0:04.0	The moment the narrator began, everything slowed.
0:08.0	Whatever our souls are made off, his and mine are the same.
0:13.0	The moors, the stormy skies, the poetry of the story pulls me in and I just drift off.
0:22.8	Life changes when you listen.
0:25.2	Weather in Heights by Emily Bronte.
0:27.3	Now on Spotify.
0:30.3	Now are all the traitors present?
0:32.8	Let's get started, shall we?
0:34.8	From rags to riches.
0:36.1	I'm so sick of this.
0:37.4	Working like a dog and being treated
0:38.6	worse. Yorkshire to New York. Or climbers you and me. A life dedicated to revenge. Let's make
0:45.2	this an occasion to remember. A woman of substance on Channel 4. Stream now.
1:00.8	Welcome to characters. My name is Laura Diaz. Welcome to our episode with Holly Madison.
1:06.9	I'm so excited to be bringing this conversation to you. We had such a fun time. I am so thankful to be connected with Holly. And I'm so thankful that she joined me for this conversation. I feel like I got
1:11.1	all of my questions answered. About maybe two years ago, I started a TikTok series on the women of
1:19.0	Playboy, Playboy lore. And I am really interested in updating a lot of that for YouTube and for longer
1:24.0	form and we will surely have more of those conversations here. What I really started getting attraction for on TikTok, actually, were these biography videos
1:30.6	that I was doing on individual women and like sharing stories of women outside of what they were
1:36.7	to Playboy and outside of their relationships with the man at the center, to the point where I
1:41.8	firmly believe that I have the largest collection of individual
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