Mackenzie Phillips' Secret Sexual Relationship With Dad John Detailed

people.com:

"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.

Read the whole story: people.com

Comments

[Simone Hill]

If this story is true... its a sick story.

If this story is not true... its still a sick story.

Either way, her father obviously failed miserably as a parent.

[happymom]

"ABC News reports that since Phillips’ public admission on the Oprah Winfrey show this week, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) has seen a 26 percent jump in its hotline calls and an 83 percent increase in traffic on its Web site."

Well it looks like McKenzie's public confession is helping MANY, MANY victims! Hoooorrraaay!! Thank you Oprah. May the dialogue continue! We need to keep the pervs. squirming as education is the key.

[KafeSociety]

No one has asked the big question yet...if John was doing that many drugs (not to mention booze), how could he even get it up? Seriously.

[happymom]

Well, not all drug addicts are equal. Some go into stupors, some become sexually charged.

[NotMcCain]

When you're unconscious from all the drugs you've taken and you wake up and your father's "having sex with you", it's not called "consensual".

It's called "rape".

[happymom]

Exactly.

[jozzie]

Their sexual relationship started when she was 19. I think it was indeed consensual. She had her own money from the show she was on and had her own fame. No "power" figures in that story. Just two odd people.

[happymom]

Nope. She was drugged by her father. Case closed.

[JGlenn-Anderson]

If true, this is just about the most heinous crime a father can commit. This is evil incarnate. My heart goes out to Mackenzie. This poor woman never had a chance. In my view, there's no sense in which such a violation could ever be considered consensual.

[JGP]

"I am stunned by Mackenzie's terrible allegations about her father," Genevieve Waite Phillips, John's third wife, said in a statement. "I would often complain to John about her overly familiar attitude towards him, and he would tell me that that was just her way. John was a good man who had the disease of alcoholism and drug addiction. He was incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child."
Is it just me or does anyone else find the statement "I would often complain to John about her overly familiar attitude towards him and he would tell me that was just her way" somewhat telling???
Anyway you look at it, the relationship wasn't consensual even if she was over the age of 18. How very sad indeed.

[happymom]

Yes, absolutely. As an abuse advocate you learn very quickly to look for those telling details. It says she was aware something "wasn't right" about their relationship. Michelle doesn't even realize she is giving it away by these statements. What you are saying is right on.

[Joye]

She says, "Don't hate my father" but who couldn't? That was my era of growing up... I am surprised nothing has been said by Michelle Phillips, one of John's ex wives... I believe Mac Kenzie and yes, I DO hate John Phillips.

[frant52]

Sad, just simply sad. Whether it is the complete truth or her truth can never be known, her father is dead. However, the fact that she is exposing herself, in what I would hope is an attempt to self-heal, is very brave. I hope she is able to stay off drugs and make a peaceful life for herself/

[jessicajuliette]

the 2 points of view are not mutally exclusive--there probably was incest, and she probably is publicizing it to sell this book (beats working at Dairy Queen)....

[discoqueen]

This has been quite a day for me. Although we had been estranged, I was close friends with Jeff and Freddie Sessler for years and I was quite shocked to hear this very private story and actually mortified for Jeff. That was, until I read on the Internet that Jeff passed away in 2005 so he was thankfully spared this public humiliation if he really is dead. I'm no one to pass judgment on others, but I have to say I was pretty grossed out by this story and I guess Jeff always did have bizarre taste in his women. I was with Freddie on the night Jeff and Mackenzie were coming to Florida after the marriage and he was so excited because he was friends with John, he was the ultimate groupie. I wonder if he knew both his friend John and his son were both shagging Mackenzie at the same time.

[Konnie]

when was she in that sitcom? has she done anything of substance since then? no i didn't think so.
what ever terrible things have happened to her, she seems to think we care. and just so we remember anew, she drags out some "kertastrophy" from her past. again and again. is anything left
in that closet? when we forget her again, what will she trot out then? she had sex with her pet
anaconda? she ate worms? lord - get some therapy and learn how to live somewhere outside
of the limelight. get a private life and keep it there. there are real people with real problems
who need real help. she on the other hand seems only to need a camera.

[happymom]

Your words are unkind and just down right WRONG. She has the courage to come forward. She deserves our respect and empathy.

If you are so bothered by her career being a "dud" after the popular shows, maybe you should think about her rolling her father's drugs for him at age 10 and him helping her "shoot up" when she was 14 and 15 and that will give you the right perspective.

[DixieMelody]

How do YOU know any of that is true?

Because SHE said so?

[NoSillyName]

You repeat the "rolling of drugs" in almost every one of your posts. It wasn't right, but cannabis is not a "drug". This whole sordid story is very sad, but if only cannabis was involved and not heroin and cocaine, MP would never had been a drug addict. An alcoholic, maybe, but this story would have been very different.

[Konnie]

you missed the point. no surprise there.

[hypnotoad72]

Oh, I can think of more gross things... maybe I should write a book, if crudity is what sells...

[alnc]

GROSS!!!!!

[myownvoice]

I knew this kid had problems but .......WOW­! (shaking my head)