Former child star Mackenzie Phillips said yesterday that she had a decade-long sexual relationship with her father, pop star John Phillips, who also taught her how to roll joints and injected her with cocaine.
Former child star Mackenzie Phillips said yesterday that she had a decade-long sexual relationship with her father, pop star John Phillips, who also taught her how to roll joints and injected her with cocaine.
Phillips (49) writes in her new book, High on Arrival, that she had sex with her father on the night before she was to get married in 1979 at age 19.
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She wrote in her book, "I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father." John Phillips, who died in 2001, was the leader of the 1960s group the Mamas and the Papas.
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She told The Oprah Winfrey Show the sexual relationship with her father lasted a decade and ended when she became pregnant and didn't know who was the father.
She had an abortion, which her father paid for, and "and I never let him touch me again".
She said she confronted her father in the early stages of the abuse, which she described as rape.
"My dad said, 'Raped you? Don't you mean when we made love?' And in that moment I thought, 'Wow, I'm really on my own here,'" Phillips said.
She learned to turn her anger toward herself and "boxed it away" rather than think about the drug-fueled incest.
Phillips said she doesn't hate her father, who died in 2001 of heart failure at the age of 65. "I understand that he was a very tortured man and passed that torture down to me," she said.
