A former Playboy Bunny has opened up about the 'terror' she felt after having her child with Hugh Hefner aborted at just 19-years-old.
Karissa Shannon allegedly fell pregnant with the Playboy founder's baby when he was 83-years-old and she said it felt like she was 'carrying the devil's child'.
The teenager says she went on to have the abortion without Hefner ever finding out. Karissa was invited to live in the notorious mansion with her twin sister Kristina and found out she was pregnant in 2009 after undergoing a blood test before a breast enlargement that Hefner was paying for.
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She said: "I wasn’t having sex with anyone else so it only could have been his baby. I just wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible. I didn’t want Hef to find out and he never did.
"I was disgusted with my body and felt like there was an alien inside my stomach. It was like the devil was inside of me. I didn’t want anyone to know I was carrying an 83-year-old man’s child."
She continued: "I found a clinic in LA. I got Hef’s security to drop us at the mall, pretending we were going shopping, then called my friend to pick us up. We were able to keep it secret."
The twins, who are now 32-years-old, were first coaxed into sleeping with Hefner on their 19th birthday and were pressured into drunken unprotected group sex. The women have described the American magazine publisher as having a 'black soul' and say they later required counselling after their experiences with him left them with PTSD and depression.
The pair said they were glad to hear of Hefner's passing in 2017 as he could no longer mentally harm any other women. They revealed: "When Hef died, part of us did feel sad, but another part was like, ‘OK good, no more girls are going to be groomed and ruined like we were’.
Kristina described Playboy as a 'cult' which they were originally tricked into thinking was 'one big family'. She added: “Hef acted like he owned you. If we broke his rules, six guards would drag us to our room and not let us leave.
"Hef called it ‘HMF arrest’, after his initials. He preyed on vulnerable young girls like us. He would offer you the world, then keep you trapped in his house, which was like a golden prison."
The sisters claim Hefner groomed them and forced them to call him 'Papa'. They recalled "We had just turned 18 and were so naïve. I remember Hef being very charming and nice.
"He was wearing silk pyjamas and slippers he always wears with his red robe. He was like a king in a castle – so powerful. He said, ‘Hey, will you come sit next to me?’ We could see other Playmates getting jealous."
The twins were taken to a club on their 19th birthday by Hefner who bought them alcohol before luring them into engaging in sexual intercourse. They said: "We got really nervous. Hef noticed and said, ‘Why don’t you slip into something more comfortable?’
"He pulled out silk pyjamas from Italy and we put them on. He pulled out this big pill like the type a horse would take. It was Quaalude, which we found out he used all the time.”
Karissa claims Hefner touched them as the drug took effect. She says: “He told us the drugs would help with our anxiety. We smoked some pot. We felt frozen at first but after a while the pill made us loose and fuzzy.
She added: “He kept saying, ‘My babies, my babies,’ and cradling us as we lay either side of him. He told us to call him ‘Papa’.
"It was almost 5am when we got back to our room that first night and we agreed, ‘He is the devil. He has a black soul. He is going to hell’.”
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