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Before today, High on Arrival, the new memoir by childhood actress Mackenzie Phillips, would scarcely have made a blip on the celebrity gossip radar.

Now, due to a startling admission, it may become a best-seller.

In the biography, Mackenzie says her father – John Phillips of the 1960s band The Mamas and the Papas – raped her when she was 19 years old.

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“On the eve of my wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it,” writes Phillips. “I had tons of pills, and Dad had tons of everything too. Eventually I passed out on Dad’s bed… I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father.”

She continues:

“Had this happened before? I didn’t know. All I can say is it was the first time I was aware of it. For a moment I was in my body, in that horrible truth, and then I slid back into a blackout.”

Phillips says her dad would speak openly about running off to Fiji together, while she would simply think “we’re going to hell for this.”

Any admission made in a memoir must be questioned. Is the individual making up a story just to sell a book? We have no way of knowing for certain, especially because John Phillips died in 2001.

Mackenzie says she confronted her dad on his death bed and said: “We have to talk about when you raped me.”

His reply: “You mean when we made love?”

Positively disgusting.