Warning: This article contains some distressing allegations.
A former Playboy Bunny has claimed that she had an abortion at the age of 19 and that the late founder Hugh Hefner was the baby's father.
Following the death of the late Playboy mogul in 2017, many of his former "Bunnies" have spoken out about his alleged behavior and actions towards them.
These stories, along with the release of the 2021 Hulu documentary Secrets of Playboy, have resulted in many people changing the way they view the seemingly enchanting life within the controversial Playboy Mansion.
Earlier this year, former playmate Karissa Shannon spoke to The Mirror and said that she was invited to live in the infamous Playboy Mansion back in 2009, along with her twin sister, Kristina.
However, things took a drastic that same year when Karissa found out that she was pregnant by chance after undergoing a blood test before a planned breast enlargement, paid for by Hefner, in 2009.
"I wasn’t having sex with anyone else so it only could have been his baby. I just wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible," she told the outlet. "I didn’t want Hef to find out and he never did.
"I was disgusted with my body and felt like there was an alien inside my stomach. It was like the devil was inside of me. I didn’t want anyone to know I was carrying an 83-year-old man’s child," she added.
The former Celebrity Big Brother contestant claimed that she got an abortion after she and her sister convinced Hefner's security that they were going shopping. They then called their friend to pick them up and take Karissa to a clinic in LA.
The twins also alleged to the publication that they were first encouraged to sleep with the magazine and TV mogul on their 19th birthday and were pushed into unprotected group sex and plied with alcohol and booze.
They described Hefner as having a "black soul" and say their interactions with him left them with PTSD, depression, and needing counseling. This is why they felt somewhat glad to hear of his death in 2017, as now no other women could suffer the same way they did.
"When Hef died, part of us did feel sad, but another part was like, 'OK good, no more girls are going to be groomed and ruined like we were,'" they told The Mirror. "I thought Playboy was one big family – now I can see it was a cult."
Karissa and Kristina are not the first former Playboy bunnies to speak out as Holly Madison - who shot to fame on the E! reality series The Girls Next Door between 2005 and 2010 - has also opened up about her time in the notorious mansion.
Just like the twins, the 43-year-old made the decision not to mourn Hefner after he died at age 97 because she didn't "have any emotional attachment to him anymore in any way," per PEOPLE.
The former Playboy Playmate - who moved into the notorious residence at the age of 21 back in 2001 - went public about everything she experienced in her relationship with Hefner in her book Down the Rabbit Hole, which was released before his passing.
"I'd already come out talking about what a toxic relationship this was for me," she told the publication. "Why am I supposed to post a memorial on my Instagram?"
As Holly is still healing from the trauma she suffered from a young age, she admitted that she didn’t get any "relief at all" when hearing of the mogul's demise. "Not relief at all, because I felt like I had taken myself kind of out of that universe pretty solidly. But it was a really odd time," she recalled.
"For me, after leaving that relationship, I kind of felt like he had always interacted with me in such a fake way," she continued. "Because every interaction he had with me was all about control or this fantasy he had of a relationship. It almost felt like playing house in a way.
"Before he passed away, there had been maybe five or six years where I just had not spoken to him at all. He had become a completely different character in my mind," she added.