Playboy's Holly Madison shares sad admission about 14-year feud with Kendra Wilkinson
Topics: Celebrity Big Brother, Reality TV
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Topics: Celebrity Big Brother, Reality TV
Holly Madison has opened up about her 14-year feud with fellow former Playboy model Kendra Wilkinson.
The pair had a major falling out in 2012 after starring in the E! Series Girls Next Door for five years.
But their friendship took an unfortunate turn just two years after the reality series ended.
“Kendra and I don't speak,” Holly revealed during an episode of Hot Goss. “But I’m not opposed to speaking.”
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The reality TV alum shared further details: “We had a falling out, but it was after the show. It was stuff that had to do with our spinoffs and working with the same producer, and I really feel like he tried to pit us against each other and got in our heads. So, that's a shame.”
As the 46-year-old explained, she felt that Wilkinson was “caught up in the tabloid cycle” at the time, with the end of their friendship exacerbated by Wilkinson’s claim that she and Madison were not friends. And the news came as quite a surprise to Madison.
The 46-year-old said she believed Wilkinson, 41, was ‘caught up in the tabloid cycle”’at the time, and that their falling out was made worse by Wilkinson’s insistence that the two were never friends. For Madison, the revelation was completely unexpected.
“I’m sitting here like, ‘Wait, I just sent your son a Christmas gift. We’re not friends? That's so weird,’” she shared. “So I think she was just really caught up.”
“We were never as close, obviously, as me and Bridget—we don't have much in common,” she shared. “But we shared a lot of experiences and had a lot of good times together so I never thought of her as not a friend.”
She shared: “This was like 2012 when we had that falling out,” Madison said, “and I just think that was the cycle that was happening.”
Wilkinson previously said she was hurt by Madison’s 2015 memoir Down the Rabbit Hole, which included the claim that Wilkinson was ‘the fakest person I've ever met’ and alleged that she ‘continued to push me away’ despite Madison’s efforts to build a friendship.
Furthermore, during a 2015 episode of Kendra On Top, Wilkinson made it clear that she never considered Madison a real friend, stating: "We were never friends," Wilkinson said: "At the end of the day, what we did was we just f--ked the same man. That's not friends."