Pearl - October 05, 2026


Women Ignore EVERY Red Flag Then Regret Who They Married ｜ Hugh Hefner and Reesa Teesa

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Crystal Harris Teresa Johnson Hugh Hefner Risa Tisa Michael Robin
“Men Stay With Women They DON’T Want Because They Feel Guilty” @JustPearlyThings “Your Entire Life Is Shaped by the STORIES You Tell Yourself” @JustPearlyThings

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Length

14 minutes

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181.8

Word count

2,647

Sentence count

115

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Misogyny

38

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Toxicity

26

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Hate speech

33

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00:00:00.000 All right, Crystal Harris says she regrets marrying Hugh Hefner and forgot her own worth to fit in his life.
00:00:05.820 So let me get this straight. You forgot your worth, but you married a billionaire? Get the fuck out of here.
00:00:12.280 Crystal Harris is sharing why she regrets marrying Hugh Hefner and opening up about how toxic their relationship was. 0.98
00:00:18.520 In a video she shared to Instagram on Tuesday, July 14th, the Model 40 explains why she regrets marrying the late Playboy founder,
00:00:25.740 adding, she regrets the version of myself she abandoned in order to survive.
00:00:29.820 okay let me get this straight you were in a mansion and you had to survive in that environment 1.00
00:00:33.500 that's what i mean women women use words that you would think were meant for like veterans 1.00
00:00:38.540 and victims of war survive like you think that's for i don't know somebody that went through 1.00
00:00:46.700 something important but instead um yeah she had to abandon in order to survive hefner and harris
00:00:53.640 tied the knot in 2012 and remained married until hefner died in 2017 and age 91 harris went on
00:00:59.800 to marry james ward in april do i regret marrying hugh hefner of course i do and that's not because
00:01:04.920 of where it brought me oh my god so she said i liked all the benefits but i did like him 0.99
00:01:09.800 but that's the thing right women will have sex for resources and popularity i'm grateful for the 0.74
00:01:14.920 woman i became on the other side do i regret marrying hugh hefner of course i do and that's
00:01:22.120 not because of where it brought me i'm grateful for the woman i became on the other side of it
00:01:27.800 but yes i regret it i regret being my mid-20s and thinking that marrying one of the most famous men
00:01:34.440 in the world that i had to had finally made it that i finally mattered or had value i regret the
00:01:40.440 years i spent making myself smaller so his world could feel bigger i regret learning to stay quiet
00:01:48.040 when i should have spoken i regret learning to stay quiet wow at the version of myself that i
00:01:55.480 i had to abandon just to survive in that environment yeah because wow she looks rough
00:02:01.060 comparatively she was really hot back then that's why i'm glad i was never that hot because 0.99
00:02:05.520 it can only be the same or slightly better or slightly worse that's a that's a fall like i
00:02:12.640 can't imagine going through life being like a nine and going to like a six you'll never recover
00:02:17.080 you'll never recover mentally i regret that it took me as long as it did to understand what was
00:02:22.260 actually happening years and I think a lot of people expected me to never say that out loud
00:02:28.180 to stay in the story that was written for me the grateful young wife the lucky girl
00:02:33.940 but I'm done living in that story yes I regret it okay I'm done living in that story that means
00:02:40.580 I'm done um I'm gonna be honest now about how I felt and I lied the entire time I'm a liar
00:02:45.820 and saying that out loud is one of the most honest things I've ever done
00:02:51.320 yeah because you're a liar right so it is what it is okay what else does she say I regret it I
00:02:58.080 okay this is just saying back what she just said in the video there's a picture of them together
00:03:02.500 you know she okay telling my truth from my younger self and anyone who's ever forgotten 1.00
00:03:07.920 their worth that's what women that are worth nothing say trying to fit into someone else's 0.99
00:03:13.860 story Harris added in her caption Harris who authored the memoir only say good things surviving 0.93
00:03:18.480 playboy and finding myself married earlier this year married war ward earlier this year in the 0.96
00:03:24.060 year and the two got engaged so she married this chad men are such suckers for beauty do you know 0.87
00:03:29.940 what i mean like she's because she's still hot for a 40 year old right and this is still i would say 1.00
00:03:35.660 a chad so i want you guys have revenge fantasies and you think these women are not going to get 1.00
00:03:41.820 their happily ever after this woman banged this guy for money status attention and resources 1.00
00:03:48.220 and got another guy to marry her after like there's no revenge were any of your ex-wives 1.00
00:03:53.080 or ex-girlfriends virgins no women are just going to keep pushing it as far as men will let you take 0.79
00:03:57.500 it she went on to explore her own traumas and backed up claims by previous hefner girlfriends
00:04:02.200 in the book harris confirmed the existence of compromising photos hefner had taken as blackmail
00:04:08.420 which his ex holly madison made claims about harris said there were thousands of photos of
00:04:13.140 other women who had been to the mansion harris always had a disposable camera with him
00:04:18.380 Harris wrote in her book,
00:04:19.760 or Hefner always carried a disposable camera with him,
00:04:25.720 Harris wrote in her book,
00:04:26.540 and he took photos of women everywhere.
00:04:28.240 We were disposable too,
00:04:29.340 and I watched those cameras fill up
00:04:31.040 with the most incriminating images,
00:04:32.740 rolls and rolls of blackmail,
00:04:34.480 if he ever wanted to use it that way.
00:04:36.800 She spoke about later finding a stash of those photos
00:04:39.240 were decluttering the mansion.
00:04:40.860 I opened up the top drawer 1.00
00:04:41.980 and found all the naked former girl next doors 1.00
00:04:44.700 and friends were carelessly thrown in there 1.00
00:04:46.900 for everyone to look at she ripped up all the photos she found and threw them away men love 1.00
00:04:52.220 their nudes you took away a ninja's nudes bitches man they know how to get you where it hurts 0.99
00:04:57.660 men they love they're so proud of their little nude files men love nudes okay um i guess this 1.00
00:05:05.440 woman regrets getting married all right let's see we got another one now to an abc news exclusive
00:05:12.040 an interview with the woman behind an incredibly viral TikTok video series.
00:05:16.280 I know, Robin, you had a chance to sit down with her.
00:05:17.940 And boy, does she have a story to tell, Michael.
00:05:20.180 Teresa Johnson's story of falling in love, marrying, and then divorcing a man,
00:05:24.020 she says, turned out to be a pathological liar, has over 400 million views.
00:05:30.280 We're not naming the man involved.
00:05:31.600 We're using the nickname she gave him in the videos, Legion.
00:05:34.920 With just one question, she had the internet hooked.
00:05:38.780 Did I marry?
00:05:39.640 In her 50-part TikTok series, Teresa Johnson, now widely known on social media.
00:05:45.260 I think I remember when this was going viral.
00:05:48.100 As Risa Tisa.
00:05:49.220 But this is what I mean. 1.00
00:05:50.260 Men that are decent looking will go to fatter and uglier women to give resources now. 0.99
00:05:54.880 Because men are being discriminated against and it's harder for them to get ahead.
00:05:58.360 Details her whirlwind pandemic romance that she says was filled with love, heartbreak and alleged deception. 0.96
00:06:05.080 I'm going to tell the story of how I met, dated, married, and divorced a real pathological liar.
00:06:15.600 The viral saga has garnered more than 400 million views and counting.
00:06:20.180 Were you nervous at all about sharing?
00:06:22.680 Yes, I was nervous, but ultimately I decided if you're going to tell this story, tell the whole story.
00:06:28.620 I also really truly believe the story will help somebody.
00:06:33.220 It costs you nothing to verify, but it very well may cost you everything to not verify.
00:06:39.500 The narrative spread out over an eight hour long TikTok playlist.
00:06:43.520 Part one.
00:06:44.040 And you know, it's funny. 1.00
00:06:44.860 I bet if this guy came out, then bitches would slide in his DMs. 1.00
00:06:47.920 It's too exciting. 1.00
00:06:49.120 So we actually met on Facebook dating.
00:06:51.100 And we also matched on Hinge.
00:06:53.960 So that's the thing. 1.00
00:06:54.560 Women said, we want to be big, fat, slut whores. 1.00
00:06:56.620 We don't want our looks match. 1.00
00:06:57.800 And the men said, fine. 1.00
00:06:58.600 And then women date out of their league and then get played. 0.68
00:07:01.960 I did not. 0.79
00:07:02.740 As a man, men are very enchanted by beauty.
00:07:05.380 It just is what it is.
00:07:06.280 It's just such an L.
00:07:07.360 All the men that pretend they aren't,
00:07:09.220 they all only aren't enchanted by beauty
00:07:12.180 after being enchanted by beauty and taking a bunch of L's.
00:07:15.880 And then maybe they learn, but usually not.
00:07:17.660 I realized that he was on both under two different names.
00:07:24.620 There are a lot of things in this story that were red flags.
00:07:28.400 This was probably one of them,
00:07:29.640 but we thought it was hilarious that we matched on two different sites.
00:07:33.980 This was a guy who I really, after having multiple conversations with,
00:07:38.120 felt like, wow, you know, where have you been?
00:07:41.800 Within two weeks, she says the couple...
00:07:43.740 Yeah, because they want to be sold.
00:07:45.580 They want something that's too good to be true.
00:07:47.620 ...cided to quarantine together in her Atlanta home.
00:07:50.640 It was more of a very temporary, he's coming to stay for the lockdown.
00:07:55.560 The lockdown just never ended.
00:07:57.360 Teresa says Legion told her he had substantial savings from his time playing arena football
00:08:02.460 and quickly took over paying her household bills.
00:08:05.300 Part of the reason that you stayed, was there anything to do with the fact that he said he had money
00:08:10.920 or you thought that he had money?
00:08:13.260 I definitely was not with him for the money, but I will admit that there came a point
00:08:20.220 he was paying all the bills and he was being, as he called, a provider.
00:08:24.060 And I had never in my life experienced that before.
00:08:27.460 Of course you wouldn't. You don't qualify, right? You're fat.
00:08:30.080 I really felt like, oh, thank you, Jesus. 0.97
00:08:33.400 Like, I can just exhale. Yes, that felt good.
00:08:36.580 Teresa also says he made promises to buy her things,
00:08:39.580 including a luxury car, a house, and a trip to London.
00:08:44.020 What were you thinking when he was making all of these promises
00:08:46.880 and when they weren't happening?
00:08:49.040 We're touring houses.
00:08:50.080 I physically saw him put an offer in on a house.
00:08:55.320 It is unfathomable to see someone put an offer in
00:08:58.340 and they have no money.
00:09:00.080 So my mind was kind of saying,
00:09:02.720 okay, something isn't right, but you know what you saw.
00:09:05.620 The trip to London, he never actually booked it.
00:09:09.340 Anyone that knows me will tell you
00:09:10.800 that she's wanted to go to London since she was a little kid.
00:09:13.220 So that one, that was difficult
00:09:16.860 because you're playing with me.
00:09:19.320 In the series, Teresa explains why she continuously chose to overlook what she calls the United Nations of red flags.
00:09:27.340 There's something that you said I really want to.
00:09:29.280 Yeah, because she chose to overlook it.
00:09:31.840 And the thing is, I want you to know, no man would have any sympathy for this ever. 1.00
00:09:35.680 Like, you just took an L, bitch. 0.99
00:09:37.620 But she overlooked it because she wanted to be lied to. 1.00
00:09:41.140 There's some, on some level, people that overlook stuff, they want to be lied to.
00:09:45.940 I want to get it here.
00:09:47.540 A quote here.
00:09:49.220 Number one, I don't want to be alone. 0.96
00:09:52.100 Number two, I didn't want to look stupid by having the relationship end so quickly
00:09:58.640 for everyone to be like, we told you something was up. 0.95
00:10:01.900 And number three, I was ready to get married.
00:10:04.380 I felt like time was running out.
00:10:05.820 I ignored things because I really wanted it to be my turn.
00:10:10.840 You get pregnant and unfortunately you lose the baby.
00:10:14.320 That is where I say the relationship should have ended.
00:10:17.360 Instead, the miscarriage almost pushed me to hold on to him even more. 0.95
00:10:22.180 Teresa claims after they got married, she started...
00:10:24.760 Yeah, that's what I mean. 1.00
00:10:25.860 Why didn't you lose weight before getting pregnant? 0.68
00:10:28.020 Too difficult, too hard. 0.99
00:10:29.460 Uncovering an elaborate web of lies.
00:10:32.340 I got married January 5th.
00:10:34.280 By January 31st, I knew I was in trouble.
00:10:38.400 The question isn't, what all did he lie about?
00:10:41.020 The question definitely became, okay, what is actually true?
00:10:44.420 What can you prove?
00:10:46.080 Every I love you was a lie.
00:10:48.220 Every I got you was a lie.
00:10:51.740 That does something to you mentally.
00:10:54.440 What was the most painful point?
00:10:56.780 The part that still makes me, that I struggle with,
00:11:00.560 is you pretended to be your own executive assistant
00:11:03.860 when I was texting you to say I'm in pre-op.
00:11:07.540 So there was never an executive assistant.
00:11:10.640 You were never in a meeting.
00:11:12.940 You just simply did not take me to the hospital.
00:11:15.520 when I lost our child Teresa says she discovered he had a criminal record documents revealing legion
00:11:22.380 pled guilty to charges of impersonating a police officer in 2017 and even had an open warrant for 0.96
00:11:28.600 violating probation bitches love criminals after just six months of marriage Teresa looks thinner 0.99
00:11:35.480 than her legion divorced it was as if a huge a year worth of weight came off of me I broke down 0.99
00:11:44.120 And I mean, I wailed I heard you say that you're not who you were before all this happened
00:11:51.560 Do you miss her? I do I do she got excited. I don't really get excited anymore
00:11:57.460 I am terrified to get excited. I actually think this is a good thing
00:12:02.220 You need to as a woman look smooth criminals 1.00
00:12:05.760 You will get excited by and there needs to be a point where you grow up and just say look 1.00
00:12:10.380 We'll see what happens
00:12:12.280 you know what i mean yeah i i actually think this is a good canon event for the ladies um
00:12:18.280 i don't think that's a bad thing to not be sold dreams anymore like i i think that that's not
00:12:26.520 not the worst thing ever to happen so yeah because i went through a whole year and some change of
00:12:34.860 getting excited only for it to be stripped away i do still believe in love i do still believe in
00:12:40.980 marriage i do still want that being single is not always a great thing but being married to the
00:12:47.680 wrong person is a completely different type of hell why do you think this you your story 1.00
00:12:53.720 has resonated with so many people because so many bitches have taken l's and so seeing her l is a 1.00
00:12:58.740 bigger like that's a bigger l than i've ever taken i feel better about myself already 0.98
00:13:02.460 i do think being accountable people appreciate that there's i have nothing wrong with asking
00:13:10.400 for grace if I'm going to be honest and say, this is where I messed up. I know I messed up.
00:13:15.420 I'm going to be honest. I really had to kind of repent. Like I had to really ask God to forgive
00:13:20.580 me because I believe that God did everything to stop me. And my hard-headed self was still like,
00:13:29.480 that's not a red flag. That's more pink. That was more pink, you know.
00:13:35.000 Teresa says even though recording the series was cathartic, therapy has been key.
00:13:39.800 It is still very much a journey of healing, self-reflection, and simply loving myself way more than to put myself through that or anything even like that ever again, ever.
00:13:52.660 We reached out to Legion on several occasions.
00:13:55.640 He declined to respond, but he took to social media, refuted the claims by Teresa, including denying that he had financial woes and saying the relationship ended because Teresa allegedly had an affair.
00:14:06.280 He maintains that her story is only being posted now because he's in another relationship over 400 million
00:14:14.260 What's the truth? I don't know
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