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Mackenzie Phillips Family Secret: Sex with Dad John Phillips

by Amy Judd | September 22, 2009 at 01:58 pm

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Mackenzie Phillips, the daughter of John Phillips, founder of The Mamas and the Papas revealed a deep dark family secret to Oprah Winfrey on her show, and that is set to be aired tomorrow on Oprah.

She says that she had a long term incestuous relationship with her father. She writes in her book 'High on Arrival' that her father had sex with her on the night before her wedding to 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, 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."

She says her dad was 'full of love'.

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."

She said her father even suggested running away to Fiji where this kind of practice was allowed, but Mackenzie said that she thought they were going to hell.

Phillips was the star of 'One Day at a Time', and it is already known about her battle with drugs, and she was even busted last year at LAX for possession of heroin and cocaine.

She does reveal to Oprah that her father was the one who first got her high, and he even shot her up for the first time. She says he missed the vein the first time too and her arm went completely numb.

In the promo she also reveals that Mick Jagger wanted her since the age of 10, as he told her one day when they were alone.

Phillips' half-brother, Tamerlane, a self-described "peace-loving Hindu vegetarian" and disciple of the late yogi Nityananda of Ganeshpuri, is hilariously unimpressed by her media blitz, according to the New York Post. "My family is and always will be a decrepit bowl of dog urine compared to Nityananda of Ganeshpuri. That is how great Nityananda is. Worship Nityananda, not the Phillips family. Nityananda can protect you."

Coincidentially Mackenzie's half sister, Bijou Phillips has just spoken out about filming a sex scene with her fiance's brother, Chris Masterson as she is an actress.

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Roberto Alvarez-Galloso

at 10:06 on September 23rd, 2009

Thanks for this post. What happened is sickening and should be used to alert people on the abuse of children by their parents.

Uwe Paschen

at 17:52 on September 23rd, 2009

I can not help but having some doubts about all this.

It does sound like a very dysfunctional family prone to excesses and exaggeration, maybe even craving media attention to a destructive level.

It could all be true, just as much as it could all be untrue. Even a professional would have trouble finding out what is what.

But it makes money and sales books.

Rhonda Girling (not verified)

at 07:13 on September 24th, 2009

I give her alot of credit Iam a survior , and it takes a long time to come out with the truth, and I think this will help alot of people I wish her luck .

Freshca

at 00:02 on September 25th, 2009

I feel so bad about that. If it's true, he's a pig (her dad). If you want to watch One Day at a Time you'll need some fast cash loans for DVDs, as it's out of syndication. Mackenzie also starred One Day at a Time. It was a long-running American situation comedy on the CBS network that aired and a successful drama/sitcom that ran from the late 70s into the early 80s. It portrayed Ann Romano, a divorced mother, played by Bonnie Franklin, her two teenage daughters Julie and Barbara Cooper (Mackenzie Phillips, Valerie Bertinelli) and Schneider, their building superintendent (Pat Harrington).Like many shows developed by Lear, One Day at a Time was more of a comedy-drama, using its half-hour to tackle serious issues in life and relationships, particularly those related to second wave feminism. The show’s nine years give it the second-longest tenure of any Lear-developed sitcom under its original name, after The Jeffersons (All in the Family and its continuation series Archie Bunker’s Place had a combined 12-year run, but only eight of those years were under the show’s original name).