Former Playboy cowl mannequin Lisa Guerrero says Secrets and techniques of Playboy modified the way in which she views her time working with the journal.
“I dodged a number of bullets,” she tells Yahoo Leisure forward of Monday’s remaining episode.
Over the previous three months, A&E’s docuseries examined Hugh Hefner’s empire by a modern-day lens. For weeks, viewers have heard horrific allegations about what purportedly went on on the Playboy Mansion from Hefner’s former staff and girlfriends. Most of the disturbing claims have been levied on the publishing mogul. For Guerrero, who hosts tonight’s particular episode, she feels she “dodged a bullet.”
Guerrero signed with Playboy Fashions round age 20 and it was made clear she might rapidly rise the ranks.
“While you signed with them, they inspired you to go to the mansion for film nights,” she remembers. “Again then I did not drink. I used to be actually naive and I assumed, ‘Wow, the Playboy Mansion that is well-known.’ And so I went and I used to be so intimidated. There was all these older males and I used to be actually uncomfortable.”
Throughout her first go to to the mansion, Guerrero met Hefner — and he made fairly the impression.
“I met Hugh Hefner and he leaned in for a kiss and I turned my head and it was like a canine slobbering, like an open mouth kiss. He appeared so previous to me,” she shares. “Once more, I used to be naive. I regarded older than I used to be… I used to be simply actually uncomfortable on the mansion. Nonetheless, I found that that they had a terrific buffet earlier than the film nights and I used to be a struggling mannequin actress.”
When Guerrero returned for an additional film evening, she introduced together with her empty Tupperware containers.
“When all these folks went into the screening room for film evening, I put a bunch of meals into my Tupperware and snuck out earlier than the previous males got here out to hit on the ladies,” she remembers. “In regards to the third time I did that, a lady got here out of the kitchen and I assumed I used to be busted. I assumed they have been gonna kick me out. However what she was actually doing was giving me prepackaged to go containers with the meals in it. And he or she mentioned, you do not have to deliver Tupperware subsequent time.”
Whereas it was a pleasant gesture from Hefner’s staffer, Guerrero now realizes how creepy the entire thing was.
“Now I do know it is as a result of that they had hidden cameras all over the place. I realized that from the sequence. In order that’s how I bought busted,” she provides.
Guerrero stopped going to the mansion, however did some modeling for Playboy lingerie. She says she was requested to pose as a centerfold for Playboy for years, which she turned down as she wished “to be taken critically” and pursue a profession as a journalist. Quickly, her profession took off as a sportscaster, however Playboy and Hefner have been nonetheless . Lastly on the urging of her husband, she agreed to do a star cowl at age 40.
“You are 40, you are Latina. Like what number of 40-year-old Latinas are on the duvet of Playboy?” she remembers her husband saying. “, Cindy Crawford’s carried out it, Halle Berry.”
She was featured on a canopy in January 2006, which prompted Inside Version, her future employer, to do a narrative about her.
“Then a pair weeks later, they provided me a two 12 months contract as a west coast correspondent for the present. That grew into my dream job as a result of a number of years later, I used to be promoted to chief investigative correspondent,” she says. “So what I have been doing ever since has been my dream job.”
Guerrero says she “used to snigger” about how humorous it was how she used Playboy, “they did not use me.”
“I by no means considered my Playboy expertise as unfavourable till I watched the present. And after I watched Secrets and techniques of Playboy, I spotted that I dodged the bullet. I dodged a number of bullets and I used to be shocked to listen to about it. I knew there was a darkness on the mansion… however I did not know the extent of it,” she says.
Secrets and techniques of Playboy “The Aftermath” airs on Monday, April 4 at 9 p.m. on A&E.
