Crystal Hefner debuts new romance with Hawaii businessman who 'values her feelings' - 7 years after Hugh Hefner's death Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Eve Buckland For Dailymail.Com Published: 13:01 EDT, 19 September 2024 | Updated: 13:28 EDT, 19 September 2024 e-mail 3 View comments Crystal Hefner has debuted her new romance with Hawaii businessman James Ward - and revealed the new relationship has 'healed' her.
Model Crystal, 38, who is Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner's widow , revealed her partner of five months 'values her feelings' and makes her feel like the 'real me' in a candid interview with People . She said: 'With James, my feelings are valued, validated. I am seen and I am heard.
'I’m nurturing the real me, my adventurous spirit, my inner child. I feel like I’ve become the person I always needed when I was growing up.” 'I feel accepted and more myself than ever before.
' Crystal Hefner has debuted her new romance with Hawaii businessman James Ward - and revealed the new relationship has 'healed' her Crystal famously wed the magazine publisher in 2012 when she was 26 and he was 86. They were married until his death, aged 91, in 2017 - pictured 2010 The pair were set up by friends in April - with Ward owning his own adventure and photography tour company on Kailua-Kona since moving to Hawaii in 2013. She told DailyMail.
com: 'We are definitely looking to the future together, with James it feels different than any other relationship I’ve experience.