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A former Playboy Bunny opened up about the "terror" of Hugh Hefner finding out that she was having an abortion at 19.
Karissa Shannon fell pregnant with Hefner's baby when he was 83 and said that it felt as though she was "carrying the devil's child".
She went on to have the abortion without Hefner ever finding out.
Karissa, who was invited to live in the notorious mansion with her twin sister Kristina, says she found out she was pregnant by chance after undergoing a blood test before a planned breast enlargement, paid for by Hefner, in 2009.
"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," she told the Sunday Mirror.
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"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."
Models Karissa Shannon and Kristina Shannon have opened up about their time at the Playboy Mansion (Getty Images for AFI)
Karissa said she aborted the tycoon's baby after falling pregnant by him when she was 19 and he was 83 (PA)Sister Karissa added: "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, now 32, claim they were first lured to sleep with Hefner on their 19th birthday and were pushed into unprotected group sex and plied with alcohol and booze.
They describe the magazine and TV mogul as possessing a 'black soul' and say their dealings with him left them with PTSD, depression and needing counselling.
The pair said they felt glad to hear of Hefner's death in 2017 as no other women could suffer what they went through.
Karissa and Kristina pose up with Hugh and his other girlfriend Crystal Harris (WireImage)"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’. I thought Playboy was one big family – now I can see it was a cult," Kristina said.
"“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 sister claim Hefner groomed them and told them to call him 'Papa'.
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"We had just turned 18 and were so naive. 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," recalled Karissa.
The twins say they were introduced to Hefner when they were 18 (WireImage)
The sisters have shared their experience (FilmMagic)Kristina said she and Karissa were taken to a club by Hef on their 19th birthday.
"He bought us alcohol even though the US age limit is 21. When we got back, Kendra was like, ‘Do you girls want to smoke some weed in Hef’s room’? But when we got into his room, Kendra left. 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.
“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’.”