Stepmothers Deny Mackenzie Phillips' Incest Claims
Source: PopEater
Posted: 09/24/09 8:19AM
Filed Under: Television
'One Day at a Time' star Mackenzie Phillips has made shocking revelations in a new memoir, claiming that she and her father carried on a 10-year incestuous relationship.
The actress says that she broke off the relationship with her dad, The Mamas and the Papas singer John Phillips, when she became pregnant; Phillips told Oprah Winfrey, "I was in a relationship with my son's father as well... I did not know who the father was. The implications, the reality of that... I had an abortion and I never let him touch me again."
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Mackenzie Phillips is the daughter of The Mamas and the Papas lead singer, John Phillips, and is best known for her role as a rebellious teenager on the sitcom One Day at a Time. She was fired from the sitcom in 1980 for drug and alcohol problems. After two near fatal overdoses, she checked into rehab. In 1981, the producers of One Day at a Time invited her back on the show. In 1982 she resumed her cocaine use, and in 1983 she was again fired from the show, this time permanently. In 1992, she entered into a long-term drug rehab program. Phillips was arrested on August 27, 2008 by LA airport police, on charges of possession of cocaine and heroin, after the narcotics were discovered during a screening. She is in rehab once again. |
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Not true, say two of John Phillips' ex-wives. According to an Access Hollywood report, both Genevieve Waite Phillips and Michelle Phillips condemn the allegations as pure fiction.
"I am stunned by Mackenzie's terrible allegations about her father," Genevieve Phillips, who was married to John during the time of the alleged affair, said in a statement to Oprah on Wednesday.
"I would often complain to John about her overly familiar attitude towards him and he would tell me that that was just her way. John was a good man who had the disease of alcoholism and drug addiction. He was incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child."
The Mamas and the Papas singer Michelle Phillips, who married John in 1962, claims that Mackenzie revealed the affair in 1997 - but told her stepmom she was joking.
"She called me back and said, 'You know I'm joking,'" Michelle told The Hollywood Reporter. "I said it wasn't funny. Mackenzie said, 'I guess we have different senses of humor.'"
"John was a bad parent, and a drug addict. But [slept with] his daughter? If she thinks it's true, why isn't she with a good psychiatrist on a couch?" Michelle said. "I think it's unconscionable that Oprah would let her do her show. I have every reason to believe it's untrue. Oprah should be more judicious about who she has on her show.
She added, "Mackenzie has a lot of mental illness. She's had a needle stuck up her arm for 'Rehab' and now she writes a book. The whole thing is timed."
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