MacKenzie Phillips’ Oprah interview is set to air today and we have learned what her shocking secret is.
She slept with her father, John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas.
MacKenzie says that in 1979, the night before she was to marry Jeff Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones entourage, she blacked out on drugs and awoke to her father having sex with her.
“On the eve of my wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it. 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.”
This was not your normal case of incest, the sexual relationship became consensual by 1980. That same year MacKenzie was fired from One Day at a Time and she and her father attended rehab together, which I believe was in vain because Mac has been in and out of rehabs up until recently.
In my last post about MacKenzie I mentioned that, if you recall, she tried smuggling cocaine and heroin through the airport last year and was caught. She eventually thanked authorities for catching her with the drugs, saying they saved her life. She claimed to have been clean since 1992 – which I have a hard time believing that the ONE time she decided to use was that particular day. I’m sure she had been using up until that point, we just don’t know for how long. The thanking authorities bit seemed like an act for the public.
Talk about a messed up relationship. I feel dirty just writing about it. I am having a real hard time with the consensual part! I can’t imagine being messed up on drugs so badly that having sex with your daughter/father seems OK. No wonder she is such a mess.
I don’t think the story is as shocking as the fact that MacKenzie is willing to talk about it publicly. That has to be hard, making yourself so vulnerable and open.
I still don’t trust her. Not that I doubt her story, again, just her motives. And is she really clean these days? I find that hard to believe. She seems like a “lifer” to me. Broken beyond repair.
Watch MacKenzie’s interview with Oprah, today at 4PM.
I know that victims of abuse sometimes wait years, if at all, to tell about their abuse, but it seems rather convenient that she has talked alot about her drug and personal problems, but never mentioned, even in passing, an innappropriate relationship with her father. And these are some seriously fucked up allegations. It just rubs me the wrong way that she waited until after her father died to bring these things up. It’s her word against a dead guy. Not to say it didn’t happen, but she’s been making some “out there” statements lately. Did you see her quote about Mick Jagger saying he’s been waiting to fuck her since she was 10? Or that her dad shot her up for the first time? Whether she’s telling the truth or not, this is one seriously screwed up person.
Just reading this repulsive story, makes you wonder – was she stoned ad nauseam again or simply already brain-dead?
Why on earth would someone talk about this in public?
If this story is true (and I really hope it isn’t), some things just doesn’t belong in the public eye. There’ll be no revenge, and hardly any justice after almost 30 years.
But, I guess it’s still nice to know, that you’ve made everybody feel dirty and disgusted by your own disgrace…
Her half-sister, Chyna, said she was told by her sister in the 90’s that this happened, and she believes her sister. Not to excuse her addictive behavior, but I’d probably be wasted out of my mind too if I had to deal with some shit like this.
i think some of her drug addiction stems from the shame of having an incestuous relationship with her father, and i think it’s an important step for her to come to terms with it in order for her to stop her addiction. i just hope she gets the inner resolution she needs to battle her addiction and isn’t doing this to just sell more books which will buy her more drugs. i sincerely hope she is serious about getting clean.
ok, that was gross!
I feel for Mckenzie. As sick as the thought of what happened to her, it is a reality these days. I think abuse is more common with family siblings than parents, but being in an alter state of mind could also influence his behavior.
I have to admit I wondered the same thing jj. Why wait so long? Not doubting her story necessarily, but…..
And, “He was full of love”. Excuse me? That isn’t love. That is sickness and perversion. My God, did she ever really stand any chance at a normal life?
This makes me so sad.
Incest, rape and abuse are more common and prevalent than people would care to know. This idea is not something entirely new. I can believe, this happened. I can believe that drug abuse would be a way to cope with this. I can believe someone would could wait 30 years to say something.
Most people who this would happen to would sit in silence for their entire lives. They would feel shameful and destructive and may never speak a word to anyone or try to get help.
I think she is brave to come forward, I don’t think this is the thing that someone makes up. Why on earth would you make something like this up?
If she truly wanted to move forward maybe she feels this is the best way she can heal and be honest with herself and the world. I hope other men and women struggling with similar issues will also be encouraged by this to heal and move forward.
Maybe she waited this long because she didn’t want to deal with actually confronting her father. She may have been worried that he would deny the claims, or, perversely, she was unwilling to shame him in public. One of the biggest fears of people who have been abused is that no one will believe them. It must be cathartic to get this out in the open, albeit supremely difficult.
I’d like to give her, and other victims of abuse, the benefit of the doubt.
Why does she have this revelation now when the man can’t defend himself? I’m not defending her father, but her credibility comes into question when she talks about it now after being busted for drug but for years claiming she was clean? What does Michelle have to say?
Michelle says bullshit.
I watched the whole interview on Oprah when I got home last night, and I believe every word she was saying 100%. When you hear the shit this woman has gone through, and is not only still alive, but a functioning, admittedly not to well, adult, it’s amazing. Buying her book after work today.