Crystal Harris has admitted she completely regrets her marriage to Hugh Hefner.
Crystal Harris “regrets” marrying Hugh Hefner and thinking their union meant she had “made it”.
The 39-year-old beauty was wed to the late Playboy mogul from2 012 until his death in 2017 at the age of 91, and she wishes she had seen more clearly at the time the reality of the situation she found herself in.
In a candid video shared to Instagram, she said: “Do I regret marrying Hugh Hefner? Of course I do.
“I regret being in my mid-20s and thinking that marrying one of the most famous men in the world meant I had finally made it, that I finally mattered or had value.
“I regret the years I spent making myself smaller so his world could feel bigger. I regret learning to stay quiet when I could have spoken. I regret the version of myself that I had to abandon just to survive in that environment. I regret that it took me as long as it did to understand what was actually happening — like, years.”
Crystal – who married James Ward in April – admitted people “never expected” her to speak out about her relationship with Hefner.
She said: “[They wanted me to] stay in the story that was written for me, the grateful young wife, the lucky girl.
“But I’m done living in that story. Yes, I regret it, and saying that out loud is one of the most honest things I’ve ever done.”
However, the blonde beauty stressed her past isn’t dominated by regret.
She said: “That’s not because of where it brought me. I’m grateful for the woman I became on the other side of it. But yes, I regret it.”
A close friend of the late media mogul, Jon Lovitz – who was a guest at Crystal and Hefner’s wedding – hit out in the comments section of the post.
He wrote: “Do you regret the house he bought for you to live in, after his death? And keeping the money, after you sold it? And all the times your mother was at the mansion? And do you regret all he did for you? And do you regret leaving him and then coming back to marry him?”
Crystal Harris regrets Hugh Hefner marriage
