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.
"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.
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September 23rd, 2009 7:42 AM
This is sick!!! How f*cked up can a person be? I think all sex offenders should be killed. Put all scum bags in a jail in the middle of nowhere and let them kill each other off, starve them... anything!!!
September 23rd, 2009 8:17 AM
Well it's definitely an explanation as to why she's been dealing with addiction for so long. If it's true, it's disgusting what he did. Her life has never been one to envy, that's for sure.
September 23rd, 2009 11:04 AM
I'm like the article. I have to seriously doubt anything that homely little drug-addict spoiled brat has to say. I mean, what other than her name does she have claim to?. That stupid CBS sit-com with Valerie Beternelli and that god awful, one look/one expression excuse Bonnie Franklin?. I mean, she ADMITS she was on-pills, drugged out most of the time. She had so many guys, she probably hallucinated. She was 19, NOT 12. Nothing was FORCED upon her...Her "Daddy-Dearest" confession demonstrates what a poor actress and miserable HACK she really is. Michelle is going to tear her a new one for this lie you can bet.
September 23rd, 2009 2:02 PM
i just heaved
September 24th, 2009 2:12 AM
Mackenzie was doing so many drugs at 19 yrs. old I doubt seriously that she knows who she fucked. If it was her father, it was just a little more excitment. Her pussy was pretty much availabe too anybody that wanted it. How many guys? 75 maybe a 100. She lost count a long time ago. How many blowjobs, 100 to 150. How many on the set of her sit-com, cameramen etc. "Hey pull it out, if it's hard I'll suck it, if it's not I'll make it hard, I just want what I get when you're finishing". Nothing wrong with that, she was just having a good time. Go Mackenzie.
September 25th, 2009 4:14 PM
It took alot of guts for MP to come forward. And the sad thing is that it isn't as unusual as people want to believe. No wonder whe is so screwed up.
September 26th, 2009 10:19 AM
THIS HAPPENS ALL OVER THE WORLD & YES RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA IN ALL TYPES OF HOMES... RICH & POOR ALIKE. I THINK IT TOOK A LOT OF GUTS FOR HER TO TELL THAT AWFUL STORY. IT'S TIME THE LID GETS BLOWN OFF INCEST IN AMERICA. I SALUTE HER & NOW IT MAKES SENSE WHY SHE HAD SUCH A TOUGH TIME GETTING CLEAN & SOBER. sHE WILL E CONDEMNED NOW, BUT HAILED IN FUTURE YEARS... THIS WILL HELP THOUSANDS.
September 26th, 2009 11:58 AM
i just have to say that being a victim of a crime like this but with a stranger is awful. i struggled with drinking to try to hide the nightmares, the fear, i mean so much was going on inside of i couldn't explain at all.i was married and still am, but it was painful for my husband to watch me spin out of control. i finally got help . i really needed to deal with the reality of what happened to me instead of hiding behind alchol and my husband, i expected my husband to fix me,this kind of stuff can ruin your life and run in denial for a long time. i pray for her now so that she can get rid of the torture and pain that comes with this kind of situation that no one wants to talk about or insist that she is just a druggie? when you see someone using drugs, i bet if you were to reach out to them i bet you'll find alot more going on than them just using drugs. i truly believe that women have been treated so bad by society when it comes to rape, we are ashamed and then we go hide behind drugs and alchol. all it is , is a coping skill, it doesn't mean we are bad, it just means we are hurting. so all of you out there that want to judge, that's wrong. for me it makes sense why mrs.phillips was up and down with her drug use, there usually is an answer for this kind of behavior. good luck to you mrs. phillips. i hope you are free to live the life you deserve now, with peace and love. allie
September 26th, 2009 1:30 PM
They were both heavily into major drugs at that time. The really shocking thing is that she must STILL be to be so desperate for money - for her connection - that she's willing to air all her sick, dirty laundry in public!
September 26th, 2009 4:01 PM
I don't know what she hoped to accomplish by her revelations. I am disgusted by her. At the age of 19, it is no longer rape and certainly not at the age of 28. She was a CONSENTING ADULT -- A DISGUSTING, REVOLTING CONSENTING ADULT. She should have known right from wrong and she certainly wasn't high 24/7.
I won't buy her book, nor will I ever watch her in any media format. If she is trying to revive her NON career, she needs massive amounts of soul transplant as well as TOO MUCH PLASTIC SURGERY! She is a NASTY, UGLY PERSON.