Holly Madison Responds To Kendra Wilkinson’s ‘Gross’ Tweets, Explains Why She Left The Playboy Mansion

Holly Madison is taking the high road amid renewed tension with Kendra Wilkinson, another former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner.

The author of “The Vegas Diaries” stopped by “Dirty, Sexy, Funny” with Jenny McCarthy and reacted to Wilkinson’s tweets calling her the Playboy magnate’s “clean-up girl” after Madison criticized life inside the mansion in her most recent book at the time.

“I didn’t really get emotional about it,” Madison, 36, said. “Obviously, I could go on Twitter and say just as many vulgar things about her, but what is that going to do for me? Nothing. I wasn’t talking about her. She was reacting to a headline, which was a headline I wasn’t thrilled about.”

“She’s not in my life anymore, and I don’t really comment back,” she added. “I was there a long time before she was, so I saw a lot of things she never saw, too. … If she wanted to react to the book once, that’s fine, but it’s like, it’s a year later. I’m not even talking about it anymore, really.”

Madison, who was one of Hefner’s live-in girlfriends from 2001 to 2008, explained that she has dealt with “slut-shaming” since she was a child.

“I mean, it’s gross, but … I’m used to it,” she said of Wilkinson’s tweets, which were later deleted. “I have my suspicions of where this is coming from, and it’s all really hypocritical, and I just don’t feel like I want to lower myself and go there and really respond in any way other than, ‘I wish you the best, bye.’”

In SiriusXM interviews on Friday, Wilkinson, 30, argued that dating Hefner was a choice that women like herself made willingly.

Madison, who was expecting her second child with husband Pasquale Rotella at the time, said she realized she wasn’t truly in love with Hefner once the other girlfriends were gone.

“I always blamed the other girls for the problems. I was always like, ‘Well, this relationship isn’t what I want, and it’s because all these girls are so mean, and if they were just gone, it would be okay. If it was just me and him, we would be like this happy old couple that watches movies all the time,’” she said. “Then I got scared, and I realized this is not what I wanted at all. … I was seeing more of his personality that didn’t necessarily mesh with mine, and I was like, ‘I can’t do this, I have to get out of here now.’”

Still, Madison said she has nothing to say to him now.

“I feel like I don’t really care. And I don’t mean that in a callous way,” she said. “But even after I left the mansion, I realized this person I cared about was so much an invention in my head.”

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