Super pissed listening to today’s episode
Look, maybe this is a trigger for me specifically but I feel like Holly was very negligent towards her animals back when she lived at the Playboy mansion.
She always uses the exact same excuse too, to justify her negligence! “It wasn’t MY pet! It belonged to the mansion! Someone else was responsible for the care and welfare of that particular animal, certainly not me!”
A few years ago, Crystal Hefner’s memoir came out and she included a story about two birds in Hef’s bedroom that kept dying and getting replaced. Crystal eventually discovered that the birds’ water bottle was broken.
Holly got really angry at Crystal on Patreon and admitted that she (Holly) had been the one who put the birds in Hef’s bedroom in the first place. When she left the mansion, Holly did not put the birds in the aviary, she left them in the bedroom. She seemed to think somebody at the mansion, maybe a staff member, maybe Crystal herself, I don’t know, would have been responsible for caring for the birds.
That story made ME angry when I first heard it a few years ago because to me, it seemed like Holly was the person most responsible for ensuring the well being of her pets after she left. Did she never talk to a staff member to let someone know to take over her responsibilities caring for the birds? Did she just see the birds as part of the decor instead of living, breathing creatures? But Holly was just deflecting all personal responsibility.
Anyway, in today’s episode I was reminded of the bird incident because Holly told a story about how she and Hef had been gifted a very rare smoke colored Flemish Giant Rabbit. Holly said that she was very excited for the rabbit, pushed to accept the rabbit, had big plans for the rabbit, chose to keep the rabbit’s original name, etc.
Then 5 minutes later, she says that the rabbit died because a drunk girl at a party had been allowed to mishandle and drop the rabbit.
WTF??? And of course she quickly follows it up by saying “but it wasn’t MY rabbit! It was the mansion’s rabbit!”
As if the mansion is a living breathing human with arms and legs capable of independent thought, instead of the inanimate object that it was!! Why was Holly so negligent with her animals?? Oh excuse me, “the mansion’s animals.”