United Kingdom, May 3 -- Holly Madison says her sex life with Hugh Hefner was "a lot more normal" than people might assume.

The 44-year-old star was in a relationship with the late magazine owner and lived i his famed home from 2001 until 2009 but explained that while she "hated" having to get intimate with him in front of others, it wasn't such a "horror story" when they were alone together.

Speaking on the ' In Your Dreams With Owen Thiele' podcast, she said: "Well, it's a very different story between when we were just by ourselves than with everybody else in the room. Everybody else in the room, no. That was disgusting. I hated it. I made it very known I hated it.

"But if it was just me and him, it was a lot more normal than you wou...