Crystal Wasn’t By Hef’s Side When He Died
When she and Hef lastly did wed on New Year’s Eve 2012, Crystal used pink, composing, “I told myself that when I got married for real someday, I would wear a white dress.”
Playing Hef’s other half was still a task, she admits, “but it felt like a promotion.” Still, it was work. In addition to beginning a DJ and realty profession, growing her social networks platform and studying crypto currency, Crystal discovered herself embracing the function of caretaker.
“I was there at his elbow holding his arm to support him so when we were out in public, nobody would know he was starting to get frail or confused,” she composes. “I wasn’t going to let him down.”
Though she faced her own health fights–Lyme illness, breast augmentation health problem and poisonous mold direct exposure– she ended up being “hyper-vigilant about protecting his image.”
When she returned from a week away in late 2017, Crystal found out that Hef had actually established a UTI with “a strain of E. coli that was considered a ‘super bug.'” Though they turned his bed room into a makeshift healthcare facility space total with the needed prescription antibiotics, he started to insinuate and out of awareness.
While out in the corridor discussing the next actions, remembers Crystal, “one of the nurses came out of the bedroom and said simply, quietly, ‘He’s gone.'”
