Chynna and Michelle Phillips React To Mackenzie Phillips Incest Bombshell
September 2009




Former child star Mackenzie Phillips said Wednesday that she maintained a sexual relationship with her father, John Phillips of acclaimed '60s vocal group The Mamas and the Papas, for more than a decade. According to a report in People magazine, Phillips, now 49, was 19 years old when she was raped by her father on the night before her wedding.

"I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father," she writes in her memoir, "High On Arrival," which was released today.

In an interview that aired on the Oprah Winfrey Show Wednesday, Philips said the relationship became "consensual" and lasted for nearly a decade, until she became pregnant. Philips also told Winfrey that her father, who died in 2001, introduced her to drugs at the age of 11, teaching her how to roll joints and injecting her with cocaine. She has since been in and out of rehab, and was arrested for drug possession in 2008.

Phillips' family -- which includes former stepmother and Mamas and Papas member Michelle Phillips and half-sister Chynna Phillips of the 1990's trio Wilson Phillips -- had mixed reactions to the accusations.

In a conversation with Hollywood Reporter columnist Roger Friedman, Michelle Phillips said, "John was a bad parent, and a drug addict. But [expletive deleted] his daughter? If she thinks it's true, why isn't she with a good psychiatrist on a couch? I think it's unconscionable that Oprah would let her do her show. I have every reason to believe it's untrue. Oprah should be more judicious about who she has on her show."

On the broadcast, Winfrey read a statement from Genevieve Waite, John Phillips' wife at the time of the alleged abuse and Mackenzie's stepmother that said he was "incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child."

But Chynna supports her half-sister's version of events, and even claims to have known about the abuse since 1997 after a shocking phone call from Mackenzie.

"She said, 'I don't know why, but I just really felt the need to call you and tell you something that I think you need to know,'" Chynna told Us Weekly. "And she went on to tell me that she had had an incestuous relationship with our dad for about 10 years.

"Somebody could have dropped a piano on my head and I probably wouldn't have felt it," she continued. "But I knew it was true. I mean, who in their right mind would make such a claim if it wasn't true?"

Michelle and John Phillips were half of the Mamas and the Papas, along with Cass Elliott and Denny Doherty. The group's songs included hits like "Calfornia Dreamin'," "Monday Monday," and "I Saw Her Again Last Night." Mackenzie was born before the group formed in 1965.






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Copycat said:

I can understand both stepmothers claiming the story is false because think about it, if they were to believe that this really happened then imagine the guilt they would feel for not knowing and putting a stop to it. Very sad.

Denial.....a drug addict is capable of anything under the sun.

It's hard for me to believe that an heroin junkie would have some interest in sex, not to say sex with his daughter, but who knows.

MuyMalaPersona said:

You ever been around a heroin junkie between nods and before withdrwal sets in? Fom what I've seen it gives new meaning to the old proverb "the flesh is weak"...just sayin'....

Mackenzie clearly needs continued therapy and psychiatric treatment. She calls her relationship with her dad consentual incest but then states that "your father is supposed to protect you not fuck you" and goes on to say that she doesn't want people to hate him. WTF? You show us this horrible monster but you don't want him to be hated? It's as if she is protecting him while he rot in his grave. I still can't wrap my head around her fucking her dad from age 18 to 29 and then only (ONLY) ending it when she thought she might be pregnant by him. Plus she fucked him the night before her wedding or some shit? It's just to insane. She also seemed a tad giddy when talking about Jagger nearly forcing himself on her. Oprah gave her this look like


The whole thing whether embellished or absolutely true is all so horrible. She has been damaged no matter what and it's sad that she couldn't get help sooner and that she needs to write a book to get closure. This stuff should have been addressed while her bastard father was still alive. Kudos to Valerie for coming out and supporting her though. Seems like Val is the only one really.

TD3 said:

He just rendered that creepy vibe. Even when he was in the Mamas and Papas, still don't see what MICHELLE saw in him.

Timmy84 said:

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Michelle started running around with him when she was 15 or 16 so that tells a lot about John

Cinnamon234 said:

But what about other victims of incest that are too afraid to speak out to anyone for help, never mind a psychologist?!?
You have to take in consideration that it isn't easy for someone to admit that they had sexual relations (by rape, by choice, whatever) with a blood relative, especially if it's one of their parents.

Ottensen said:

You're right on that. Just wondering. Stories of junkies are always fulled with lies so usually I'm sceptic with this kind of stories.

Timmy84 said:

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Michelle started running around with him when she was 15 or 16 so that tells a lot about John

laurarichardson said:

oh I forgot about all that

The thing I was thinking was that she was just recently busted with junk; drugs will make a person do anything, she probably needs this book to sell

ThirdandFinal said:

If that was the case, she needed to write a book right after TV producers fired her the second time from the One Day At A Times series. If my memory is correct, Mackenzie has no other TV or movies roles for a great number of years.

TonyVanDam said:

Or she could create a giant controversy that would equal sales

He must have had a hell of a dick if she continued sleeping with him willingly.

Like I said..."where the hell was her momma!!" If I had a husband and daughter doing that shit I would kill him and beat her ass before shipping her off to rehab in serbia.

ThirdandFinal said:

You think she's lying, huh?

DesireeNevermind said:

That's why the moms are saying she's lying. Because if this really happened then the blame is on them for not 'killing him and beating her ass before shipping her off to rehab in serbia'.

this is terrible, a father having sex and doing drugs with his daughter. damn

i could never talk about this if i were her, it's shameful

Mackenzie Phillips: I slept with my father


The bombshell that Mackenzie Phillips will drop on Oprah today? She slept with her father.

In her tell-all book, out today, the actress says 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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