American Actress, Mackenzie Phillips Opens Up On Her Decade-Long Incestuous Relationship With Her Dad, Music Icon, John Phillips
Hollywood star, Mackenzie Phillips has opened up about the 10-year incestuous relationship she had with her late father, John Phillips, who was the front man of iconic Rock band, the Mamas & the Papas
The 64-year-oldAmerican actress and singer appeared on her half sister, Chynna Phillips Baldwin’s YouTube channel this week where Chynna called their father “one of my favorite individuals in the whole wide world,” but one who had had a “very dark side”.
Mackenzie who first detailed the pair’s abusive affair in her 2011 book, High On Arrival: A Memoir, agreed with Baldwin, 55, that their father was very unpredictable.
“Talk about complex, so many different levels to who he was,” Chynna, who is married to Billy Baldwin, said.
“Obviously, he’s an amazing songwriter.”
“Genius,” Mackenzie agreed.
“I loved his laugh. Yet there was this whole other side to dad that was kind of, like, monster,” Chynna continued, to which Mackenzie also agreed with.
“He had a very dark side,” Mackenzie said, with Chynna agreeing: “He was so dark, and you just didn’t know who you were going to get, right? It was very unpredictable.”
“It’s very complicated. It’s very, very complicated,” she added. “And yet, I am at peace.”
Mackenzie claimed in her 2009 memoir that her father raped her on the night she married Jeff Sessler. She was 19 at the time.
Mackenzie went on to battle with a drug addiction and the sex with her father became consensual for nearly 10 years.
During the podcast, Chynna took a moment to show Mackenzie support for speaking out about the unusual affair.
“When I stood by you, I meant it with all my heart,” Chynna said before showing her 2009 appearance on “Good Morning America” where she spoke about the family’s bombshell secret.
“I believed you and I want you to know that I was proud of you for coming out, even though it was painful for everybody.”
Mackenzie said that she faces backlash online for having “forgiveness in my heart” toward her father, who died on March 18, 2001, of heart failure.
The substance abuse counsellor — who “was in rehab 10 or 11 times over a 30-year period” before she got sober — made sure to note, “Forgiving doesn’t mean I co-sign or agree with what I’m forgiving you for — or him for.
“Forgiving is for me, not the other person. And forgiving doesn’t mean that I co-sign or agree with what I’m forgiving you for, or him for. It’s very complicated. It’s very, very complicated. And yet, I am at peace,”
she revealed.
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