Playboy star Holly Madison opens up on her autism diagnosis in new interview
Holly Madison, 43, known for her romance with Hugh Hefner and her Playboy covers has opened up about her recent health diagnosis.
The Playboy star admitted she was diagnosed with autism earlier this year, and it helped her explain why she was different from others when she was younger.
She explained she has “high executive functioning autism”, adding: “It’s not as extreme as for other people. So I’m not a spokesperson for everybody.
“They call it a spectrum for a reason.”
Speaking on the Talking To Death podcast, Holly said she can do her day-to-day things “normally”, but has spent most of her entire life introverted and not comfortable in busy situations.
She continued: “I can apologize to people if I interrupt or talk over them and tell them why.”
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As a child, she thought one of the reasons she was different was that she grew up in Alaska and then moved to Oregon.
Speaking on the Call Her Daddy podcast in 2021 Madison wondered if she had Asperger’s syndrome, a term no longer used and considered part of the larger autism spectrum disorder.
She said: “I think because I’m more quiet, I’ve only recently learned to make eye contact.
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“I’m often in my own thoughts, things like that, so people take that as offensive.
“They’re like, ‘Damn, you’re not super interested in me, f*** you!’
“They think I’m, like, stuck up or snobby or think I’m better than everybody else.”
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Holly was only 21-years-old when she moved into the Playboy mansion and became Hugh Hefner’s main girlfriend.
In Secrets of Playboy, Holly shared of her time: “I think I was drawn to try and be in the spotlight because I felt like if I could be famous, that would be a shortcut to feeling a connection with people.
“I wasn’t physically attracted to Hef, but I did find him very charming.”
Hugh died in 2017, with his son Cooper blasting Secrets of Playboy.
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