Posted on 09/23/2009 4:18:29 AM PDT by autumnraine
"Don't hate my father," Mackenzie Phillips tells PEOPLE.
But in a tell-all book out Wednesday, the former childhood actress reveals that her dad, musician John Phillips of the '60s band the Mamas and the Papas, engaged with her in a long-term incestuous relationship.
Phillips, 49, who has survived drug addiction, arrests and divorce, writes in the book High on Arrival that she was already a star playing a boy-crazy teen on the TV sitcom One Day at a Time when her father had sex with her on the night before she was to marry Jeff Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones entourage, in 1979.
"On the eve of my wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it," writes Phillips, who was 19 and a heavy drug user at the time. "I had tons of pills, and Dad had tons of everything too. Eventually I passed out on Dad's bed."
"My father was not a man with boundaries. He was full of love, and he was sick with drugs. I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father."
"Had this happened before? I didn't know. All I can say is it was the first time I was aware of it."
Phillips' life began to spiral out of control. In 1980, she was fired from One Day at a Time because of her constant drug use. That same year, she went to rehab – with her father. Her sexual relationship with him had become consensual.
What an Ironic Name.
How about "The Incestuous Rapists"?
Or "The Lots"?
The 60's generation.
NEVER trust anyone from the 60's or 70's.
Cheers!
I tend to be skeptical of women who tell stories of how they woke up to “discover” that somebody was having sex with them. Had the relationship been consensual from the outset, would she have really ‘fessed up to it?
Mackenzie Phillips’ brother Tamerlane Phillips observed:
“My family is and always will be a decrepit bowl of dog urine compared to Nityananda of Ganeshpuri. That is how great Nityananda is.” The Indian yogi died in 1961. “Worship Nityananda, not the Phillips family. Nityananda can protect you.”
What did Rick James say?
Another Godless Liberal story.
Yuck
And “Papa” ain’t around to defend himself.
my sister was just like this tramp
A product of the free love, drugs and rock & roll culture of the Woodstock generation.
she could’ve said she got it on with bonnie franklin or schneider
Well, it makes sense. I mean he picked her mom who was barely legal, then dumps her mom for a barely legal Michelle... it seems to be a perv trend for him and fits right in.
My God, how boring my life is.
I loved my parents. I love my wife. I love my kids. I haven’t hit anyone since a schoolyard fight in 1973.
Yeah, there was that time I smoked a cigarette in 1970—but my neighbor caught me and threatened to tell my mother.
How utterly dull my life has become. I so want to be like these dirtbags.
Bonnie Franklin was hot. I had a crush on her and Valerie at the same time. I always thought Makenzie was a skank.
I agree. Children and teens read People. Why did they feel compelled to tell us this?
Liberal family values!
Actually, these are all boomers, born in the late 40’s or early 50’s.
They are wreaking havoc on our world.
But how would you know she's recently written a book???
Michelle Phillips is not her mother. She is the mother of Chyna Phillips.
MacKenzie is the product of a previous marriage. John Phillips left her mother for Michelle.
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