VIDEO: Mackenzie Phillips: "My Father Was Not A Bad Man"
Posted on Sep 24, 2009 @ 10:15AM
Mackenzie Phillips, on the promotional trail for her book, High On Arrival, said on the Today Show Thursday that her father, The Mamas And The Papas singer John, was "not a bad man, just a very sick man," despite engaging her in an incestuous relationship throughout her twenties.
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The child star of American Graffiti and One Day At A Time fame --who has battled drug addiction for years -- said that she only realized what had happened after waking up in her father's bed the morning of her wedding with her pants down around her ankles, adding that the sex "wasn't consensual by any stretch of the imagination."
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She said after two years of being molested, she began letting her father make love to her consensually. Phillips said the last straw to all the sex she was having with her dad was a paternity scare after she got pregnant while she was married.
"I got confused, and I never let him touch me again," she said, adding her father graciously paid for the abortion.
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Phillips said she has received a great outpouring from incest survivors since coming forward with her bombshell, saying "it's time for us to bring [the incest issue] to life."
John Phillips died in 2001 of heart failure.
Mackenzie Phillips new biography, High On Arrival, is in stores now.
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Sep 28, 2009 @ 11:08
Sep 25, 2009 @ 12:15
If he abused his daughter he was sick and a bad man. Sorry Mackenzie you can't have it both ways.
Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 2:06pm
Yes, it's TMI and it's uncomfortable, but what do you want incest survivors to do... keep harboring secrets for their abuser? She was sick and messed up with drugs, but let's not blame the victim.
Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 11:37am
... and I disagree with her... her father WAS a bad man.
Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 11:40am
and if any of you actually read the article...she woke up the morning that she was suppose to get married in her fathers bed. WOW...now I know how things get hyped up in this crazy world.
Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 11:06am
All about making bank!
Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 11:05am
smoked.
Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 11:05am
since most of you sound drunk.....I will be the voice of reason.....she admitted to being drugged out for many years...someone that desperate for money might let the things she said "happen" for money. Who are you to judge??
Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 11:04am
Waking up after getting married with your father??? Hum...sounds like the husband would have a problem with that one! After she was married it WAS Consensual! Who is she kidding? At that point, you can't blame DAD!
Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 11:03am
Waking up after getting married with your father??? Hum...sounds like the husband would have a problem with that one! After she was married it WAS Consensual! Who is she kidding? At that point, you can't blame DAD!
Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 11:03am
I don't know whatelse to blog about this pea brain just wait & see if the station have a live open line from the public to discuss this
Posted Thu, 09/24/2009 - 10:53am