Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt have clarified claims made against them in Kendra Wilkinson's 2010 book Sliding Into Home.
The trio appeared on E!'s hit reality show Girls Next Door in the early 2000s. Over the years, they've been open about their issues with one another, which stemmed from Madison and Wilkinson's memoirs.
During this week's episode of their Girls Next Level podcast, Madison, 42, said that while Wilkinson's book came out years ago, she didn't read it until "2014-2015" when she was writing her own memoir.
A lawyer associated with her publisher allegedly told Madison that the way she portrayed Wilkinson moving in wasn't the way it was portrayed in her memoir.
"So I looked at Kendra's book, and then I got f***king pissed," Madison said. "Because I saw everything that she had said about us that was just untrue."
Although Madison said Wilkinson "says nice things" at the end, there were several moments she still wanted to clear up.
According to Wilkinson's memoir, Wilkinson, 37, was invited to stay at the Playboy Mansion for the weekend after meeting the magazine's late founder and editor-in-chief, Hugh Hefner. After she was dropped off, Wilkinson claimed no one showed her around, which Madison said was false.
The ladies explained that Marquardt, 48, gave her the tour and that Wilkinson wouldn't have been able to enter the guesthouse by herself because visitors needed a key.
"Then she says that Hef offered her Room 2, and she said and when Bridget found out, Bridget freaked out and said, 'Room 2, that's gonna be my scrapbook room!'" Madison continued.
"Oh my god, could you imagine?" Marquardt—who admitted she has not read Wilkinson's book—responded.
Marquardt explained that Room 2 is a "huge room," noting that Hefner had to pay "rent" on each room, "so to think for one second that I'd be able to use this giant room as my scrapbooking room is comical."
Madison said it was "weird" Wilkinson remembered such a minor detail like the room number but didn't recall Marquardt giving her a tour.
On a separate occasion, Wilkinson claimed Madison and Marquardt "tattled" on her for seeing other men.
"I don't remember that at all," Madison said, to which Marquardt replied, "Me either. I don't even think I knew that she was cheating on those early days like that."
Madison agreed, saying, "I just thought she was at massage school, and what she was doing with her time, I don't care."
In a third instance, Wilkinson accused Madison and Marquardt of trying to replace her on Girls Next Door with Playboy's Miss October 2003 Audra Lynn.
Again, the pair shut down that narrative.
"That's weird too because Audra had been there a long time, like she had been coming up and staying at the mansion," Marquardt said.
"She was just around as a friend, like she wasn't a girlfriend. She wasn't sleeping with Hef," Madison explained, adding Lynn, 42, was dating actor Michael Keaton at the time.
"That's crazy to me that she thinks that," Marquardt said, before giving Wilkinson a shoutout. "Just for the record, Kendra, if you're listening, it never once even occurred to me to think Audra would be a girlfriend or take your spot on Girls Next Door."
Newsweek has reached out to Wilkinson's representative for comment.
Madison and Marquardt launched their Girls Next Level podcast on August 22, 2022, and have been spilling behind-the-scenes details about their time at the Playboy Mansion.
In a previous episode, Madison accused a producer of staging drama between her and Wilkinson as tensions between them began to heat up.
"Things got weird with me and Kendra, and I felt like he was encouraging that," Madison said of E!'s Kevin Burns, a producer on the show.
The mom of two—who shares kids Rainbow and Forest with ex-husband Pasquale Rotella—said he "wanted us fighting, he wanted drama."
Hefner and Burns both died on September 27, though three years apart—Hefner in 2017 and Burns in 2020.
Girls Next Level airs weekly on Mondays.
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