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Call it whatever you like -- cold feet, a fame-seeking strategy or a genuine reevaluation of a relationship -- but according to Crystal Harris, ditching fiance, Hugh Hefner nearly at the altar was the 'right thing to do.'
"It was mutual between Hef and I," Harris told Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show. "There was no fight, we sat down and we talked about it."
Crystal Harris: 'It Was All Happening Too Fast'
By Kiki Von Glinow Posted Jun 15th 2011 05:55PM
With the Playboy Mansion backyard wedding just days away, Harris, 25, credits the intense media pressure surrounding the nuptials for her last minute decision to ditch the 85-year-old Lothario altogether.
But according to Harris, although Hefner was on the receiving end of the breakup, it was not his initial idea to even get married.
"He was just doing this wedding for me, he though that's what I wanted," she said. "We're both relieved."
Although we doubt that 'relief' would be the original Playboy's name-that-emotion of choice, Hefner did tweet that Harris' timing could have been worse: "The breakup is a heart breaker, but better now than after the marriage."
Upon news of the nixed nuptials, Lifetime was forced to cancel a two-hour documentary spot that was to let viewers share in the big day, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The added pressure of not only being Mrs. Hefner but also having her big day filmed may have been what pushed the bride-to-be over the edge.
"They were gonna air a show on it. It was all happening too fast for me."
A pace that many thought may have led Harris astray -- soon after the wedding was called off, reports that Harris was romancing another man behind Hefner's back caught wind. But according to the bombshell, there was never anyone else. And it was exactly that polygamous lifestyle that turned her off of the idea of a 'Playboy marriage.'
"Hef's lifestyle isn't the most normal lifestyle," she said. "This isn't the lifestyle for me, multiple girls all around, it's not the lifestyle I wanted."
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Although Harris' revelation seems a little late in the making, according to the playmate, she and Hefner will remain on good terms.
"I feel happy and at peace that everything will be OK," she said. "I respect him more than anything, and we're still going to be really close."
Hefner has been quite vocal following the breakup, taking to his Twitter account to lay down the law when it comes to publications misrepresenting the breakup as well as to make light of his newly single status.
"Since we're not getting married on Saturday, I've scheduled a movie: "Runaway Bride." Seems appropriate," Hefner jokingly tweeted after previously having confirmed the couple's split via the social networking site.
And although Harris and Hefner will not be tying the knot this Saturday in front of 300 of their closest friends and family, they will be introduced as man and wife on Friday -- Harris' 'Mrs. Hefner' July Playboy cover went to press before Harris and Hefner called it quits.
The cover boasts a mostly nude Harris sporting Hugh Hefner's signature smoking jacket, captain's hat and pipe. The cover will hit newsstands with the headline, 'America's Princess: Introducing Mrs. Crystal Hefner.'
In the end, it looks like Hefner will be short one princess but we have no doubt that there are more than a few royal Playboy hopefuls willing to step up to the plate.
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It would be so much more believable if we ever once saw love bewtween an 18 year old and a 90 year old great great grandparent if money and fame weren't involved, but we never do. Hefner looks like a perv. Not a funny one, just a creepy one. He better have a palace full of vibrators and viagra. ... And the winner of this "game" is the young lady who gets to be his widow.
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Someone said: "Of course she wasn't going to marry him for love...just like he wasn't going to marry her for love either...If a man wants a trophy wife and she wants to marry the man for his money...than they deserve everything they get...a loveless marriage for sure." What a pompous egotistical idiot to think he or she "Knows" what is in someone else's heart and mind whom they have never even met.
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It's all about the pre-nupt. When push finally came to shove, she obviously couldn't sign away her right to the fortune.
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Another blonde bimbo bites the dust,No daddy Warbucks for this little prince. Hef is Mr.Playboy has plenty of gold diggers to choose from.
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ICK......ICK.......AND DOUBLE ICK!!!!
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I had never heard of her before this article. And, if she never knew Hefner, I still wouldn't know her name. I think she got what she wanted.
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She was having 2nd thoughts? I guess she recently realized maybe she should shot marry a guy 55 years older then her.Maybe its not a good idea not to marry a guy that could be her great grandfather.Maybe its not a good idea not to marry a guy that more then likely will be dead within the next 10 years..Thank god she had these revelations.
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more like dead any day
I am glad she "grew a pair" and did not get carry on with the nuptials. So she got a little "fame" out of the deal? better than being stuck for life (his) with an old man. You go girl!!!
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Let me understand this women. She blames the media for everything. Too much pressure they (the media) put on her. hmmmm. Lets see. She was going to marry a somewhat famous man who is 60 younger then her. A man who thrives for any kind of publicity. He would talk to a potted plant if it could speak. Did she know nothing of Hefner ? Nothing of "Playboy" ? No nothing of life with Hef and life at the "mansion" ? Oh. Ok. The media is at fault. Nothing like an honest young person! LMAO !
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who cares what that old fool is doing? Good Grief! lol
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She's been saved from going through with this marriage ~ now I pray she is saved from the lifestyle, amen!
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Its better to be dumped, than to be used for the rest of his life. No one deserves to be used like that.
Anyone can see the girl was using him, and she was going to take as much as she could for her new boy friend.
Its woman like her, that gives all woman a bad name.
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She can say what she wants, but I would put money on the fact that this had to do with a pre-nup that she didn't want to sign!! "It was moving too fast"???? Did she not think of that when he gave her that giant rock she wears on her finger? (That I'm sure she didn't give back to him.....that will sustain her for a while) Did she not think of that when she started the whole relationhip with him? She knew what kind of lifestyle he led, it's not like he was a private type of person, and all of a sudden having a televised wedding was a problem for her? I doubt that very much. This chick was nothing but a gold digger who would have been waiting tables for the rest of her life if it weren't for Hefner.
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ya old coot hugh hefner you!marry someone your own age!
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What a pity...two lost souls...
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NOT America's princess.
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Chick is a tool...have luck with that music carrer lol !!!
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Geee golly we are gonna be really close and I am gonna be really rich and famous...PUBLICITY ...she still won't be going anywhere much.
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You apparently have not been to South America. Things are much different in the land of plenty ;-).
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