Holly Madison has finally revealed the cause of her long-running feud with her Girls Next Door co-star Kendra Wilkinson.
“Kendra and I don’t talk,” Madison said on Thursday’s episode of the “Hot Goth” podcast. “But I’m not against talking about it. We had a falling out, but that was after the show.”
Madison, 46, claimed their “fall out” was due to Wilkinson’s desire to maintain the relationship.
“At the time, she was really caught up in the tabloid cycle. If it was a rift with someone that was going to be in the tabloids that week, she was going to say it,” Madison explained.
The two appeared on the reality show together with Brigitte Marquardt from 2005 to 2009 as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s “girlfriends.”
Madison claims the issue arose over “working with the same producer for the spin-off” and that the producer “got in my head trying to pit us against each other.”
“It was something to do with our spinoff and working with the same producer. I really feel like he got in our heads trying to pit us against each other. So, it’s unfortunate,” she shared.
The producer was Kevin Burns, co-creator of The Girls Next Door and working on the spinoff Kendra starring Wilkinson the year before Madison, Wilkinson and Marquardt ended their roles on the series.
Burns then developed “Holly’s World” and a spin-off of Marcato, but it was not picked up.
In 2016, Wilkinson, 41, dragged Madison for calling him Hef’s “cleaner.”
Years later, she criticized Madison again for rehashing their friendship on a podcast.
“Hey…it’s 2021,” Wilkinson commented on an Instagram post about Madison’s “Call Daddy” interview.
In a second comment, she added, “Times have changed. I forgive, love, and have children to focus on.”
