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Holly Madison Opens Up About 'Intimate Emotional Connection' with Her Boyfriend After Autism Diagnosis at 42 (Exclusive

The former Playboy model caught up with PEOPLE ahead of the premiere of her new true crime series 'Lethally Blonde,' opening up about her Playboy past and recent autism diagnosis at age 42.

The former Playboy model, who went on to become a bestselling author, podcast host and true crime series producer after leaving the mansion, tells PEOPLE that she really values the discovery because it helped her reconcile a lot of her earlier, interpersonal experiences. “The doctor told me that I have high executive functioning, which means I can pretty much go about my life and do things ‘normally,’” she said in a December appearance on the Talking to Death podcast. “I think because I’m more quiet, I’ve only recently learned to make eye contact, I’m often in my own thoughts, things like that, so people take that as offensive.

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