HUGH Hefner’s widow has blasted Dr. Phil McGraw as ‘sinister’ and a ‘bad actor’ for advising her to leave the Playboy mansion.
Former Playmate Crystal Hefner, 37, discusses her failed romance with the TV doctor’s son Jordan in her upcoming memoir Only Say Good Things.
In the book, she blames Dr. Phil for having, in her view, an “ulterior motive” for emboldening her to leave Hef for his son after Jordan sent her to meet him while she was engaged to the Playboy tycoon.
She says that in hindsight she believes she was “convinced by bad actors to give up something I shouldn’t have let go of”.
Crystal adds: “Dr. Phil’s words on his couch on the day that Jordan sent me up there to him started to seem so sinister—not a kind man giving good advice, but an entitled man used to getting his way, trying to get his son something he wanted.”
In the book, Crystal explains that the relationship with Jordan came after Hefner informed her they were getting engaged on Christmas Eve 2010.
She claims that after confronting him over the paltry amount of money she was getting for a reality show about the wedding, she tried to leave the Playboy mansion but was “detained” by his staff.
Vowing to get away from Hef, she began to secretly explore possible careers as an alternative to her life at Playboy.
She says she first met musician Jordan, now 37, while looking into work as a DJ.
Crystal explains that Jordan felt like a “safe haven” while Hef and his team planned their wedding without her input.
Although not initially attracted to him, Crystal says she glowed under Jordan’s attention and he made her feel like “the most important person in the world”.
As her wedding to Hef, who was 60 years her senior, fast approached, Crystal says that Jordan advised her to speak with his dad.
‘SURREAL’
The former model describes going up to the TV host’s mansion in Beverly Hills and meeting him as a “surreal” experience.
She writes that after explaining her situation, Dr. Phil told her that a 25-year-old woman with her whole life ahead of her should not be “trapped” in the Playboy mansion.
Despite already having decided to leave Hef, she says that Dr. Phil’s words emboldened her.
As she secretly moved her stuff out of the Playboy mansion, Jordan texted her to say: “Just move in with me.”
Crystal claims that at this stage she had not even kissed Jordan but thought moving in with him might work as a “transitional place”.
Telling Hef’s security team that she heading out to buy tampons, she says that just days before the wedding in June 2011 she drove to Jordan and hid out as the world discovered that Hugh Hefner’s fiancee had ran away.
Hef was left with a canceled wedding at a reported loss of $250,000.
To make matters even worse, it was too late to change the cover of Playboy magazine that Hef had promised Crystal when they got engaged.
The July 2011 issue was published with the headline “America’s Princess – Introducing Mrs. Crystal Hefner!”
An embarrassed Hef was forced to add hundreds of thousands of red stickers on top of the pic of Crystal’s body which read in big block letters: “RUNAWAY BRIDE IN THIS ISSUE!”
Crystal says that when Jordan kissed her for the first time she felt butterflies but things “got intense, fast”.
She claims he showered her with “affection and compliments constantly” in what she describes as “the nuclear version of love-bombing”.
It included using his dad’s black Amex to fill his house with ten thousand dollars worth of roses the first weekend he went away without her.
But Crystal says that things “started to sour pretty quickly” in her relationship with Jordan, who these days is a married dad of two.
‘MY SON BAGGED A PLAYMATE’
She claims the first sign of trouble came when he found out that she was planning to throw a secret birthday party for him but made a “big elaborate show” pretending that he was surprised.
Then one day while Jordan was auditioning lead singers for his band at the Viper Room, Crystal says she overheard Dr. Phil tell people: “Look at my son. He bagged himself a Playmate.”
Remembering his advice to her that she had more value than just being Hugh Hefner’s wife, Crystal says she thought his comment showed that she was just “a thing to be bagged” to him.
The final straw came when Crystal discovered emails to Jordan from his mom in which she allegedly advised him to leave her and offered to tell Crystal herself.
Describing her bitter disappointment, Crystal writes that instead of finding a real man she had ended up with a “little boy who needed his mommy to do his dirty work for him”.
Eventually, Crystal says that life outside the mansion didn’t work out for her, and she ended up returning and marrying Hef on New Year’s Eve 2012.
She admits in the autobiography that she was never in love with the publishing magnate but did come to love him towards the end of his life “in the ways you are supposed to love your elders”.
The U.S. Sun last week revealed that Crystal claims in the book that Hef had a serious addiction to opiates and his staff worried he would die of an overdose.
The U.S. Sun also told how Crystal describes Hef as a “narcissist” who “only ever thought of himself.”
The U.S. Sun reached out to Dr. Phil’s lawyer asking for comment but did not hear back.
