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September 25, 2009, Friday
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FORMER child star Mackenzie Phillips said on Wednesday that she had a decade-long sexual relationship with her father, pop superstar John Phillips, who also taught her how to roll joints and injected her with cocaine.
Mackenzie Phillips, 49, writes in her new book, "High on Arrival," that she had sex with her father the night before she was to marry in 1979.
Phillips wrote in her book: "I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father." John Phillips, who died of heart failure in 2001, was the leader of the 1960s group the Mamas and the Papas.
She told "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in an interview that aired on Wednesday that her siblings "definitely have a problem with this." Winfrey also read a statement from Genevieve Waite, John Phillips' wife at the time of the alleged abuse and Mackenzie's stepmother. Waite's statement said John Phillips was "incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child."
Phillips, who starred on TV's "One Day at a Time," said the sexual relationship with her father lasted a decade and ended when she became pregnant and didn't know who had fathered the child. She had an abortion, which her father paid for, "and I never let him touch me again."
Phillips' mother is Susan Adams, the first of John Phillips' four wives.
Phillips has long acknowledged having drug problems, and she told Winfrey that she first tried cocaine when she was 11 years old. Her father did drugs with her and taught her to roll joints. She said she's been clean for a year after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine and entering drug rehab.
She said she confronted her father in the early stages of the abuse, which she described as rape.
"My dad said, 'Raped you? Don't you mean when we made love?' And in that moment I thought, 'Wow, I'm really on my own here,'" Phillips said. Phillips said the sexual relationship, although she believes it eventually became consensual, was "an abuse of power" and "a betrayal" on her father's part. She said she forgave him on his deathbed.
Mackenzie Phillips, 49, writes in her new book, "High on Arrival," that she had sex with her father the night before she was to marry in 1979.
Phillips wrote in her book: "I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father." John Phillips, who died of heart failure in 2001, was the leader of the 1960s group the Mamas and the Papas.
She told "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in an interview that aired on Wednesday that her siblings "definitely have a problem with this." Winfrey also read a statement from Genevieve Waite, John Phillips' wife at the time of the alleged abuse and Mackenzie's stepmother. Waite's statement said John Phillips was "incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child."
Phillips, who starred on TV's "One Day at a Time," said the sexual relationship with her father lasted a decade and ended when she became pregnant and didn't know who had fathered the child. She had an abortion, which her father paid for, "and I never let him touch me again."
Phillips' mother is Susan Adams, the first of John Phillips' four wives.
Phillips has long acknowledged having drug problems, and she told Winfrey that she first tried cocaine when she was 11 years old. Her father did drugs with her and taught her to roll joints. She said she's been clean for a year after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine and entering drug rehab.
She said she confronted her father in the early stages of the abuse, which she described as rape.
"My dad said, 'Raped you? Don't you mean when we made love?' And in that moment I thought, 'Wow, I'm really on my own here,'" Phillips said. Phillips said the sexual relationship, although she believes it eventually became consensual, was "an abuse of power" and "a betrayal" on her father's part. She said she forgave him on his deathbed.
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