Mackenzie Phillips: I Slept with My Own Father
Originally posted Tuesday September 22, 2009 07:40 PM EDT

"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."

Blackout
"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. For a moment I was in my body, in that horrible truth, and then I slid back into a blackout."

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. She even toured with him in a band called the New Mamas and the Papas. Her sexual relationship with him had become consensual.

Delusional
"I was a fragment of a person, and my secret isolated me," she writes.

"One night Dad said, 'We could just run away to a country where no one would look down on us. There are countries where this is an accepted practice. Maybe Fiji.'

"He was completely delusional. No, I thought, we're going to hell for this."

For much more from Macknezie's book – including her fling with Mick Jagger, what her family said about her rape accusations and her fears that she was pregnant with her own father's baby – pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20307481,00.html

TMI

Zack wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 11:11pm:


How so?

Allright, that shit is fuckin sick.

StPeteStone wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 11:18pm:


The title of the book is High on Arrival.

Florida used to have signs on the side of the highway as you drove down I-95 that said "Arrive Alive," which I had seen often altered to read "Arrive Stoned" on bumper stickers and mock license plates in gift shops and such.  I guess I'm betraying my age here.  This was in the early 80s.

Nothing to do with incest.  Which is bad.  And wrong.  And sick.

Honky Tonk Man wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 12:51am:



just 'cuz she said it don't make it so

Lantern_High wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 5:56am:


I have always wondered what "Puah" is.

Thanks, Lantern!

Edith Grove wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 6:03am:

Well, lol , is like your Bleah! Means Filthy.. if to one get the vomit this one doesnt feel so well dont?
Ciao Edith, and watch if you can Ophra today. Cause I cant. 

A greet to Heart Of Stone

does she have a new album/book to promote at the moment? 

" 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. "


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"One night Dad said, 'We could just run away to a country where no one would look down on us. There are countries where this is an accepted practice. Maybe Fiji.'

Lil' Fiji ........ Oh , Little Fiji ... Lil' Fijikins !!!!! .... Little Fiji

Ade wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 9:16am:



Yeah, but would that be before or after screwing him? 

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 9:28am:


and the Ozarks 

I read John Philips book years ago "Papa John" I think it was called, he was a real screwed up drug addict, when they used to shoot up drugs there was blood on the walls, I don't know how this happened because I was never into that, a part of the book is when him & Keith was shooting up, he (John) was making a solo album & him & Keith were so out of it, it took them hours to tune up, they went into a bathroom & didn't come out for hours, nothing became of the solo album though.
He (John) was on a T.V. special that his former Mama & papas member Denny was doing, he was so out of it he kept saying "Where's Keith"? or something to that extent, there's a film of this on "Straight Shooter" movie on the M & P's.