‘I slept with my own father,’ reveals daughter of The Mamas and The Papas singer John Phillips
The daughter of The Mamas and The Papas star John Phillips has revealed she had a long-term sexual relationship with the musician.
In an explosive tell-all book, Mackenzie Phillips says she was drugged and raped by her famous father when she was 19 and went on to engage in a consensual incestuous affair with the 1960s star.
Ms Phillips, now 49, reveals their first sexual encounter happen the night before she married Jeff Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones entourage.
‘On the eve of my wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it,’ writes Phillips in her new memoir High on Arrival.
‘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. For a moment I was in my body, in that horrible truth, and then I slid back into a blackout.’
Ms Phillips, a product of his first marriage to Susan Adams, was a heavy drug user at the time.
She was then a star in her own right in America, appearing on the U.S. sitcom One Day at a Time.
She was eventually fired from the programme and went on to tour with her father when he formed the New Mamas and the Papas.
By that stage she was now a willing participant in their relationship.
She recalls: ‘I was a fragment of a person, and my secret isolated me.
‘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.’
Strangely, Ms Phillips now defends the singer, who died in 2001.
‘Don’t hate my father,’ she told America’s People magazine while promoting the book.
John Phillips left behind four other children including Chynna, who featured in the singing group Wilson Phillips and Bijou, a model, actress and Hollywood socialite.
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at 7:07am
Filed under Mackenzie Phillips | 16 Comments »
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:35 am
What purpose does it serve to make this awful confession????
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:36 am
God we live in a f*cked up world…
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:16 am
I hope she finds the peace she is obviously searching for.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:50 am
God that made me sick to my stomach…
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:51 am
This is entirely TMI. I don’t want to know about this. I don’t see how confessing this will bring any peace. The only thing it serves as is a major anti drug message.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:58 am
That was very creepy. I agree, I hope she finds the peace or whatever else she is looking for.
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:24 am
This is crazy… im so like UGhed by this.
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:21 pm
That is awful, she has been through so much.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:31 am
I felt so nauseous reading that! What a horrible thing to have to go through!
September 24th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Wow, this unfortunately takes place many more times than we may want to believe. That is why it’s so important for mothers to be careful with their young daughters with their fathers…I worked in social work and have see too much of this…it’s real and it’s lasting effects are devastating.
September 25th, 2009 at 9:32 am
I don’t believe this crap for one moment, she needs money to support her haroin addiction, why does anyone need to know this disgusting pitiful junk?
September 25th, 2009 at 10:19 am
God you white people are f*cked up
September 25th, 2009 at 10:25 am
McKenzie could have let this remain a secret, but I think telling the public helps her to reconcile within herself the guilt and shame she’s felt for so long, while at the same time allowing people who have had consensual sex with family members to feel empowered to get help and to tell someone, too. Most people are uncomfortable hearing about this kind of ugly stuff, but the fact is, it is a reality for so many. Without a compassionate heart for people like her you’d never understand why she felt a need to write about it or go public about it.
September 25th, 2009 at 10:49 am
There is no sin that God will not forgive. That was the whole purpose of Jesus dying on the cross at calvary….to cover our sins with his holy blood. Hopefully John asked forgiveness before he passed away and if he truly repented I believe he was forgiven. As for McKenzie, there are no emotional scars that God cannot heal. Jesus also shed his blood for healing. People are so quick to make judgemental, hurtful and arrogant comments, but I believe God is the only judge and everyone else should just pray for those that are messed up and hurting. Afterall, when you think about it, no one has had a perfect life.
September 25th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Objectively speaking, Don\’t blame her. Many people are in all kinds of bad rleationships from work to home, to being married or having a boyfriend. They are in toxic relationships that they just stayin ecause you just are kinda drawn and acutally you WANT everthing to be okay and then you actaully think you are too far in it to just get the hell out. People do not act logically; they are people. There is a morphed psychological hard to describe muliti faceted aspect of behavior. (We are alos people of habit; and like I said; once you do somethign bad, it, not easy to face it and get out; you tend to jsut go with it.
Most of us are living big time lies all the time cuz no one is saying the truth of their feelings to anyone.
For her to TELL this finally, THAT is doign somethign for HER, not you the reader. It is very strange for someone to say \"what is the point of her book.\"
She is a person with feelings. Her expression of \"feelings\’ is the point. I cannot imagine. I have sympathy for her.
September 25th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Think about the dynamics of the Dad being right factor.
AND Who would fricken believe me factor AND
jsut being caught in the mddle of both choices being hell for you.
I have sympathy for her.