Kendra Wilkinson, former “Playboy” Playmate, and star of the highly influential reality show - “The Girl’s Next Door,” has revealed that she was a teen drug addict. Now 29, Wilkinson recalled, that at the age of 14 she was addicted to crystal meth, cocaine, and LSD; during a particularly horrifying incident, she began choking on her own blood as her friends partied around her. Wilkinson said: “My drug habit was turning into a nightmare pretty quickly, and one night soon after, I almost didn’t survive.” Shockingly, Wilkinson turned to drugs at the young age of 12; she says to fill a void left by her dad Eric, who split with her mother Patti when she was seven and she was sent to live with her maternal grandmother. Wilkinson soon quit school. She met a new boyfriend, a drug dealer who provided her with cocaine, but demanded she have sex with him every day. As her life spiraled out of control, she refused to quit because drugs kept her mind in a haze. When she was not doped up, she self-harmed to escape heartache. She cut her arms and watched blood pour out. Wilkinson tried to commit suicide by taking an overdose of pills; she even tried to overdose on toothpaste by eating an entire tube. Then, in a seemingly fantastic stroke of good luck, at age 19, Wilkinson met “Playboy” porn pusher Hugh Hefner and quickly became one his live-in girlfriends. Of sleeping with the 88 year old, Wilkinson said it was “like a job.” Only, life after drugs has proved all the more tragic: recently, Wilkinson split from her husband, and father of their two children, after he cheated with a transgender model. Before that, Wilkinson shopped around Hollywood a series of “private” sex-tapes, one of which was filmed when she was only 18.
Author’s note: “The Girls Next Door” was an extremely popular reality series in its time. Now, almost 10 years after its premiere, young boys who watched the program are just becoming men; many of them write to me. For the most part, the show was their first introduction to pornography. Sadly, most of them, as a result of seeing “The Girls Next Door,” at such a young age, in their early teens, became full-blown porn addicts. For their generation, it served as a living incarnation of the static “Playboy” magazine that may era grew up with.