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Jenny McCarthy doesn't have particularly fond memories of the parties held at Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion early in her career. The 51-year-old star of MTV and the movie "Scream 3" said that she took part in some of the wild parties at the mansion but refused to participate in the documentary "Playboy Secrets" released in 2021, although she initially considered it and eventually canceled her participation. When she was a guest on the show "Watch What Happens Live", McCarthy spoke briefly about the parties at the mansion: "There was so much ... sex with disgusting celebrities," she said.
McCarthy, now a judge on the show "The Masked Singer", added: "For every 20 men there was one girl. So the men were in heaven. But also... the men were, like, over 70 years old... there were only hot young women And the ugliest guys... it felt like a Viagra center." She clarified that her experience at the mansion did not involve anything related to drugs or stalking and that she had no special relationship with Hugh Hefner, "Heff was married at the time," she added.
The publisher of the magazine died in 2017 at the age of 91. He was married to model Kimberly Conrad from 1989 to 2010, and to Crystal Harris from 2012 until his death. In an A&E documentary, the former Playboy babes revealed "the dark reality beneath the shiny exterior of Hefner's empire."
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"There was a big Playboy scandal TV special. They kept asking me to be a part of it," McCarthy said, "I said, 'Listen, I didn't have that experience.' Pamela Anderson didn't have that experience. We were in a different time, I think... I was there when his kids threw bacon at me in high chairs." As for Anderson, 56, she has appeared on the cover of Playboy several times, starting in 1989.
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Jenny McCarthy, who also starred in John Tucker Must Die, worked as a nude model for the adult magazine in 1993. When McCarthy got the job, her mother was angry and "disowned" her for several days, "but then she took it back. I paid all their bills with the money I earned," she laughed.
In 2022, McCarthy revealed that she refused six times to participate in the docuseries Playboy Secrets. "I didn't have the same experiences, so I wasn't going to participate and speak when I didn't experience these things," she said on the '#NoFilter with Zach Peter' podcast, "I watched it. To hear their stories ... my heart breaks for these women."