LOS ANGELES, June 11 — Holly Madison has revealed that life as a Playboy Bunny wasn’t as glamorous as it seems.

The ex-Playmate reveals the dark side of dating 89-year-old Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner in her new tell-all memoir, “Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny.”

According to the Us Weekly’s account of the book, Madison claims she was offered drugs when Hefner discovered her as a 21-year-old Hooters waitress.

“Would you like a Quaalude?” Hef asked, “leaning toward me with a bunch of large horse pills in his hands, held together by a crumpled tissue,” the former bunny wrote in her memoir.

When Madison declined, she said that Hefner took the news in stride. Usually, I don’t approve of drugs, but you know, in the “70s they used to call these pills thigh openers”, the Playboy honcho told her.

Madison, now 35, became one of Hefner’s official seven “girlfriends” in August 2001 and by February 2002 became Hefner’s “number one” and moved into his bedroom. She says the 29-room mansion was stocked with “trays of Johnson’s Baby Oil, Vaseline and Kleenex” in every room.

According to another report by People, Madison claims that Hefner would often pit the Playmates against each other, just because he enjoyed the drama. She claims that she fell into a depression that led to suicidal thoughts soon after she moved into the mansion in 2002.

The relationship ended in 2008 after rumours Madison was having an affair with illusionist Criss Angel surfaced.

Hefner has yet to respond to the claims made in the book.