On the latest episode of their Ladies Subsequent Stage podcast, the earlier actuality stars hit once more at Crystal’s licensed letter, with Holly accusing Hugh Hefner’s widow of “hypocrisy.”

Crystal — who was married to Hugh from 2012 until his lack of life in 2017 — despatched the cease and desist earlier this month, per TMZ, after Holly, Bridget, and Hugh’s son, Marston Hefner, slammed Crystal on a Might episode of Ladies Subsequent Stage. On the episode, Marston immediate his stepmom “could also be a grasp manipulator.”

Holly and Bridget shared their concepts on Crystal’s letter, nonetheless didn’t test together with her by title, instead calling her “Cease and Desist Lady.”

“The issue that truly blows my ideas about that’s she’s attempting to ship a cease and desist, principally threatening a lawsuit for us airing our opinions, and this woman is on the top of a free speech foundation,” Holly said of Crystal, who’s the president of the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation, which “helps and funds right now’s pioneers defending civil rights and liberties, with specific emphasis on First Modification rights and rational intercourse and drug insurance coverage insurance policies,” in response to its website online.

“I cannot deal with the hypocrisy correct now,” she added.

“‘First it was NDAs, now it’s cease and desists,” Bridget said. “No particular person’s allowed to talk nonetheless her. Apparently, the First Modification is only for her.”

Holly careworn that she’s “not backing down,” labeling Crystal’s actions as “licensed bullying.”

“There’s a issue I choose to call ‘licensed bullying,’ when people who assume they’re richer than everybody else pay their attorneys to ship cease and desists to people to shut them up,” she said.

She added that she thinks Crystal should “step down” as a result of the president of the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation. “That may be a joke!”

Holly and Bridget moreover addressed Crystal’s declare inside the cease and desist letter, via which she alleged that the two podcast hosts and Marston accused her of “taking drugs” Hugh within the route of the highest of his life for her private financial purchase.

Nonetheless, Holly alluded that Marston’s phrases have been misinterpreted, claiming that Hugh’s son was “just a bit bit disturbed [by] the amount of medication his father was receiving.”

“Nonetheless he said that after you’re that rich and extremely efficient, there’s always going to be anybody who can write you a prescription,” she added, noting that she’s “paraphrasing” Marston’s suggestions. “I took that to indicate as he merely felt like when you would have that type of entry there’s always going to be a well being care supplier someplace who’s going to maybe give you just a bit an extreme quantity of to ensure that you it.”

Whereas Holly said she didn’t assume that had “one thing to do with Cease and Desist Lady,” Bridget added that Crystal “took it very personally,” with the pair referencing that Crystal first launched this up in an Us Weekly interview.

Responding to Marston’s claims that Hugh was “dosed with f–king drugs,” Crystal said she “wished him to be on as least as potential of any of that type of issue” as she tries to not take prescription drugs herself.

“She’s precise defensive about that topic for some trigger,” Holly said on Sunday’s podcast, to which Bridget reacted to Crystal’s suggestions in Us Weekly, saying, “I assumed, ‘We on no account say that!’”

“After which, now it’s inside the cease and desist so I’m like, ‘No, she truly thinks that we said that,’” she continued, together with that she wonders why Crystal’s lawyer didn’t merely take heed to the podcast to see that they “actually didn’t say that.”

Holly well-known that “any lawyer worth their salt could be like, ‘Don’t try this, you don’t have a case proper right here.’”

TooFab has reached out to Crystal’s rep for comment.

Throughout the cease and desist letter, which was obtained by TMZ, Crystal, by the use of her licensed group, claimed that the remarks Holly, Bridget, and Marston made on the Might 12 episode of the Ladies Subsequent Stage introduced on her “vital damage,” and labeled their suggestions as “malicious and intentionally misleading.”

Referring to her claims that the three immediate she was involved with “doping” Hugh earlier to his lack of life, Crystal’s lawyer said, “Nothing may probably be farther from the truth. As we understand it, Ms. Hefner was steadfast in her dedication to Mr. Hefner by his final days, ensuring that he was cared for and obtained top-of-the-line medical consideration on the market.”

TMZ well-known that the letter moreover mentioned that they may take licensed movement if Holly continued to make “false” claims about Crystal.

“Ms. Hefner will not be going to have her title and fame tarnished by opportunists,” Crystal’s lawyer suggested the outlet. “We stand by the contents of the letter and might implement Ms. Hefner’s rights to the fullest.”

Within the meantime, Holly took to social media to react to receiving the letter, and poked gratifying on the total factor,

“Take into consideration working a free speech foundation after which sending someone a cease and desist for talking,” she wrote on X, beforehand Twitter, on June 10, together with a handful of laughing crying emojis.

In a follow-up put up, Holly claimed, “Your lawyer can’t even uncover my acceptable e mail deal with.”