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Mackenzie Phillips: I had goochi gooch with musician dad John Phillips
2009-09-23
(CNN) -- Actress Mackenzie Phillips reveals she had a long-term incestuous relationship with her famous father, musician John Philips, in a tell-all memoir, according to People.com, which obtained an advance copy of her book.
Sing us a coupla verses of "My heart and other appurtenances belong to Daddy"...
Phillips, the 49-year-old former child star and daughter of the Mamas and the Papas founder John Phillips, says she had sex with her father the night before she was to marry Jeff Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones entourage, in 1979, according to People.com. "On the eve of my wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it," writes Phillips, who was 19 at the time and a heavy drug user, according to People.com. "I had tons of pills, and Dad had tons of everything too. Eventually I passed out on Dad's bed."
Can we hang him now?
Phillips, best known as Julie Cooper on the sitcom "One Day at a Time," says the sexual relationship became consensual as her life began to spiral out of control.
Became consensual? So the first time is it was incestuous rape by Daddy Darlingest, then later he took advantage of her addled state to persuade her that she liked it? I do not want to know whether this was instead of, or in addition to, wedded bliss. Let's castrate him with a rusty scalpel, then let him die of lockjaw instead of hanging him.
During her time on the hit CBS comedy, which ran from 1975 to 1984, she battled drug addiction and underwent drug rehabilitation. She later was fired from the show in 1980 because of her drug abuse.

Eventually, she and her father went to rehab together and she later toured with him in a band called the New Mamas and the Papas, according to People.com. "I was a fragment of a person, and my secret isolated me," she writes, according to People.com. "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.' "
No there are not countries where this is an accepted practice, not even Saudi Arabia or Yemen, although there are countries where such things happen, like Saudi Arabia and Yemen and, it seems, the United States.
Phillips will reportedly unleash the secret she has kept to herself for 31 years in an interview on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" scheduled to air Wednesday.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#5  It's clear that, at the very minimum, her parents bear a major part of the responsibility for her drug use. Not only by introducing her to drugs, but by inflicting a perfectly awful 'household' environment on her.

I didn't see American Graffitti until a couple of years ago. She was winsome as a gawky teen. It was some kind of director's cut, and at the end there was a clip of her as she was at the time. I was shocked - she was just stunning, not gawky at all! I asked Mrs. KBK, "I wonder what happened to her? How did she turn out?" She filled me in on the Mamas/Papas background and the terrible family life.

Combine those looks with the personality displayed in the film (which I suspect was pretty close to her natural personality at the time) and a lack of inhibition due to Hollywood and drugs, and you have a nearly irresistible Lolita.

Put that together with a lowlife scoundrel like John Philips....what a shame.

Posted by: KBK   2009-09-23 23:57  

#4  Anyway, is she truthful?

I have no idea, KBK. I should have thought to ask, but bad parenting is one of my hot buttons, which is how I ended up with formerly temporary daughter (now living on campus at the University of Cincinnati) and part time daughter.
Posted by: trailing wife   2009-09-23 22:29  

#3  Let's castrate him with a rusty scalpel

I got the scalpel, but you get to dig him up.

Anyway, is she truthful?
Posted by: KBK   2009-09-23 18:07  

#2  And this all happened because Michelle Phillips was so unattractive?
Posted by: Herb Ebbeating2993   2009-09-23 17:02  

#1  Let me guess, she was such a junkie that he cut her out of his will and wouldn't give her any money to destroy herself.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2009-09-23 12:11  

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