Mackenzie Phillips' secret
The former One Day at a Time sitcom star tells Oprah Winfrey that her father, singer John Phillips, raped her
Actress Mackenzie Phillips
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"Now this is a horrifying revelation," said Natalie Finn in E! Mackenzie Phillips, the troubled eldest daughter of the late Mamas & the Papas frontman John Phillips, says in an interview airing Wednesday with Oprah Winfrey that her famous father raped her on the eve of her wedding when she was 19. The former 'One Day at a Time' sitcom star says in her new memoir, 'High on Arrival,' that she once told her father they had to talk about when he raped her, and he replied, "You mean when we made love?"
But the story didn't end there, said Andrew Belonsky in Gawker. The relationship between John Phillips and his daughter, whose drug problems got her kicked off 'One Day at a Time,' developed into a "long-term, consensual incestuous relationship." While the rest of us are "all a bit revolted by this revelation, Mackenzie urges the public not to hate her father."
Sorry, said Alex Leo in The Huffington Post, but there's no such thing as consensual sex between an incest victim and an abuser. Mackenzie Phillips "was 19 and drugged out of her mind and her father raped her." Women who are victims of sexual assault are 26 times more likely to abuse drugs and four times more likely to contemplate suicide—Mackenzie Phillips "was in no way capable of saying no to a man who had so much influence over her."
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Posted by cyndi, Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 1:21 pm They both are sick. He raped her, and she went back for more? that makes NO sense. and WHY does she have this need to bother us with her sorted past? get a shrink and leave us out of your horrible lives. Oprah should be off the air for this kind of show. thank goodness i have a remote. oprah is like an ambulance chaser.
Posted by albert, Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 2:09 pm agree: get a shrink and leave your dirty secrets with the doc, not Opree. she loves to get into other people's business. and get a remote and turn her OFF.
Posted by Joe Fritzl, Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 3:48 pm I'm not seeing the problem here.
Posted by I Appreciate Satire, Thursday, September 24, 2009, 2:27 am Ahahhahaaaaaaaahah
Posted by Bob, Thursday, September 24, 2009, 8:57 pm These people are trash and simply will announce that they are in order to make a buck. Why does anybody in the media give them any attention at all? Frankly I'm not surprised she screwed her father for 10 years. I'm surprised that she remembers any of it. Did the maid keep notes or what? Now I suppose she will be a star on some trashy reality show or maybe will appear on Dancing with the Stars. The public has no taste
Posted by Bob, Thursday, September 24, 2009, 9:01 pm Oprah has copied the earlier trash shows and will bring on anybody who will boost her ratings. The more twisted sex, abnormal lifestyle , domestic violence, and excess of drugs the sooner you will get on the couch with Oprah. I guess she knows trash when she sees it and gets a thrill out of have it close to her.
Posted by MaryJaneCandy, Saturday, September 26, 2009, 3:39 pm What baloney. Once people have the spotlight on them, they will do almost anything, including making up nonsensical victim stories, in order to get that attention and spotlight back on them. Like Rosanne Barr and a host of others with crazy family stories, published long after the deaths of the alleged abusers. Most are pure fiction and nonsense, even if some shrink has let the patient think it really happened.
Posted by Sue, Saturday, September 26, 2009, 10:42 pm Assuming this story is true, why anyone would want to go on national TV and reveal this sick tragedy to the world is beyond me. How this knowledge really help anyone?
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