What happened that Mackenzie Phillips ended her sexual relationship with Mamas and the Papas founder John Phillips?”
Actress Mackenzie Phillips claims she had a long-term incestuous relationship with her father, musician John Phillips of the 60’s group the Mamas and the Papas. In “High on Arrival,” her new tell-all book which hits stores today, the former “One Day at a Time” star says her first recollection of her father having sex with her was on the night before her wedding to Jeff Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones entourage. In an interview with People magazine, Phillips, now 49, pleads with readers “don’t hate my father.” “On the eve of my [1979] wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it,” Phillips, who was a teenager and strung out on drugs at the time, writes. “I had tons of pills, and Dad had tons of everything too. Eventually I passed out on Dad’s bed. “My father was not a man with boundaries. He was full of love and he was sick with drugs. I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father. Had this happened before? I didn’t know. All I can say
Mackenzie Phillips told Oprah on her show today that her sexual relationship with her father — Mamas and the Papas founder John Phillips — began in a blackout and lasted a decade. I think a lot of girls who grew up in those years could say the same, just not about their dad. But Mackenzie insists the affair ended when she became pregnant and didn’t know who the father was. Suspecting it was her dad’s, she had an abortion — that John Phillips paid for — and “and I never let him touch me again.” Mackenzie said the sexual relationship, although she believes it became consensual, was “an abuse of power” and “a betrayal” on her father’s part. She says she forgave him on his deathbed.
