Mackenzie Phillips

Rolling Back The Years At The 'TV Land Awards'

Posted 05.07.2012

Everybody had a blast at the tenth annual "TV Land Awards" (Sun., 9 p.m. ET on TV Land). Host Kelly Ripa took to the stage dressed as everyone from Su...

'One Day At A Time' Cast Reunites

Posted 04.27.2012

The cast of the classic mid-'70s sitcom "One Day At A Time" got together for a reunion Friday on "Good Morning America" (weekdays, 9 a.m. ET on ABC). ...

'Extreme Cluttter' Helps Mackenzie Phillips Shed The Past

Posted 12.29.2011

Former "One Day at a Time" star Mackenzie Phillips has had a difficult few years, between a stint on Vh1's "Celebrity Rehab" and being in the media sp...

Mackenzie Phillips Makes Botox, Filler & Laser Reveal (PHOTO, VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Mackenzie Phillips did some work on her face and she debuted the new look on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday. Phillips, last seen doing the rou...

Chynna Phillips Enters Rehab For Anxiety

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — A representative for Chynna Phillips says the 42-year-old singer has entered an undisclosed treatment facility for anxiety. A statem...

Mackenzie Phillips: Incestuous Relationship With My Father NOT Consensual (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Mackenzie Phillips now says that the incestuous relationship she had with her father, The Mamas & The Papas singer John Phillips, was not consensual. ...

Celebrity Scandals Of 2009: Which Was The Most Shocking? (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

2009 saw scandalous tweets (Meghan McCain), shocking award show moments (Kanye) and underage pole dancing (Miley). What do you think most shocking mo...

Celebrities Behaving Badly

BJ Gallagher | Posted 11.17.2011

BJ Gallagher

Sociologists tell us that deviance plays a positive role for society. Deviance shows us what happens with you cross certain boundaries - as well as what and where those boundaries are.

America Can Do Better -- Stopping Child Abuse Deaths

Michael Petit | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Petit

Children at grave risk of being abused or killed need the government's protection and we should have a national approach for doing this because the heavy toll exacted by abuse and neglect is both economic and moral.

Mackenzie Phillips Uninvited From Family Thanksgiving

Access Hollywood | Posted 05.25.2011

Two months after the publication of her memoirs and following the startling claim that she had an incestuous relationship with her father, John Philli...

Warning to the Boss: Think of Having Sex with Your Employee as the Same as Incest!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 05.25.2011

Stephen Viscusi

Bosses..does that make the point any easier to remember? At least once a month, I get a call from a TV producer or reporter, who is covering a stor...

MacKenzie Phillips: Father's Death Was Like A Majestic Oak Falling (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

VH1's 'Celebrity Rehab' kicked off its third season Thursday night, and it appears to have been filmed a while back. The cast includes Mackenzie Phill...

Remember Privacy?

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Tamar Abrams

It's one thing to voluntarily relinquish all pretense to one's one privacy, but totally different to spill the most intimate details of the lives of others, particularly if they aren't around to defend themselves.

Oprah: Incest Revisited

Deborah King | Posted 11.17.2011

Deborah King

Mackenzie Phillips has done everyone a huge favor by acting as our societal point person for incest and speaking out very publicly. I applaud her courage.

An Apology to WuDunn and Kristof and a Thunk on the Head to Larry King

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 11.17.2011

Michealene Cristini Risley

Acid burnings, dowry deaths, sexual trafficking, rape, molestation: the list is growing, and it is all part of the systematic oppression of women and girls worldwide.

Letterman, Whoopi, and What Oprah Really Wants

Trish Kinney | Posted 11.17.2011

Trish Kinney

Someone told me that Oprah had offered a million dollars to Jaycee Dugard, so I set off to investigate.

Art Is Not Enough

Allison Anders | Posted 05.25.2011

Allison Anders

Art should never be held above our decency to each other. And when an artist commits a crime, especially a sex crime and especially against a child, we do art no favor by giving artists a break we would not give anyone else.

Oprah, Mackenzie, and the Fam

Trish Kinney | Posted 11.17.2011

Trish Kinney

I, too, have a new memoir, which focuses on paternal sexual abuse. But my story is nothing like Mackenzie's. It is hard for anyone to relate to the perfect storm of dreadful circumstances which doomed her.

Mackenzie Phillips Slept With Her Dad

Susan Harrow | Posted 11.17.2011

Susan Harrow

While Phillips's is an extreme case, you don't have to sleep with or have been raped by your dad to feel bad about yourself, your body or your sexuality.

Stepmom Michelle Phillips: I'm Mad At Mackenzie

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Michelle Phillips, John Phillips' second wife and a former member of The Mamas and the Papas, has some choice words for her stepdaughter. She finds Ma...

Mackenzie Phillips Scores

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Wolff

As it happens, whenever we follow an incest story at Newser it becomes the biggest story. The Phillips story is even bigger because it's not just an incest story but also a disputed incest story.

Bijou Phillips, MacKenzie's Half-Sister, Knew About Incestuous Affair At Age 13

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

From the AP: CHICAGO -- Actress Bijou Phillips says she knew her half-sister Mackenzie Phillips had consensual sex with their father, Mamas and the P...

Mackenzie Phillips, Child Abuse and Divorce

Belinda Etezad Rachman | Posted 11.17.2011

Belinda Etezad Rachman

Since the subject of sexual abuse of children is in the news, it might be a good time to review some of the signs and symptoms of child sexual abuse.

An Open Letter to MacKenzie Phillips

Deborah King | Posted 05.25.2011

Deborah King

MacKenzie Phillips' "coming out" on Oprah as an incest survivor triggered a lot of my own memories. But she has one piece of the story dead wrong: it was not a consensual relationship.

Mackenzie Phillips Defends Father Despite Incest, Stepmom Michelle Phillips Calls Her A Liar

Posted 05.25.2011

(AP TEXT, SCROLL FOR VIDEO) NEW YORK - Mackenzie Phillips has defended her father John Phillips as "a good man" despite her claims that they had an i...