Mackensie Phillips

[allmycats]

omg has anyone read about Mackensie Phillips? a 10 yr affair with her own DAD! she has a book coming out, a memoir. really sick. I knew she had been on drugs and had alot of trouble when she was younger, but, eeeww! for 10 years?!!

[aTailOf2Kitties]

I think she made the whole thing up just to hawk her new book. I mean 10 years is a long time to not know what's going on (as she claimed). Surely she had some moment of clarity during that time

[allmycats]

I think she made the whole thing up just to hawk her new book. I mean 10 years is a long time to not know what's going on (as she claimed). Surely she had some moment of clarity during that time

I wondered that same thing. if it's true, very sick, if not then still a sick mind and VERY desparate to be back in the lime light, just to promote a book. either way very sad

[Freedom]

When I read the article in the newspaper a day or 2 back, it just didn't have the right sound to it. The step mom was appalled (and rightly so if it did happen; and also if it is made up). I also thought this was a publicity thing. Sad either way, as already said.

[Karen]

I don't think she made it up, she talks about it at first being not consensual, that she was heavily drugged and drunk, but then became consensual, and that a part of her knew it was horribly wrong all along. I think the Stockholm Syndrome probably applies in this case as well. Her life has been so messed up, and her father's drug use and poor judgment was well-documented and often commented on. Both her sister and friend and former costar Valerie Bertinelli have come out in support of her, which I don't think they would have done if they didn't believe her.

By the way, I have moved this to The Dog House, as it is by its very nature an upsetting topic.

[kuhio98]

I don't think she made it up, she talks about it at first being not consensual, that she was heavily drugged and drunk, but then became consensual, and that a part of her knew it was horribly wrong all along. I think the Stockholm Syndrome probably applies in this case as well. Her life has been so messed up, and her father's drug use and poor judgment was well-documented and often commented on. Both her sister and friend and former costar Valerie Bertinelli have come out in support of her, which I don't think they would have done if they didn't believe her.

By the way, I have moved this to The Dog House, as it is by its very nature an upsetting topic.

I'm with you. I don't think she made it up either. The first time was rape. After that she consented. She knew it was wrong. Evidently, her father didn't feel the same. Drugs will make you cross every boundary.

[DJFyrewolf36]

I saw a clip of her and her dad in a recording of an old interview on Inside Edition. The little bit I saw sure gave me goosebumps. They didn't act like father and daughter at all, more like they were dating. Had I not heard all the rest of the stuff in the news and had just seen that I still would have found the interaction between the two odd...and a bit disturbing.

I wish I could find a link to the vid...seems like no one has it up yet.

[pomtzu]

According to her sister Chynna - it is true and it did happen. However, I don't think the whole world was in need of knowing this. If she wanted to "get it out" for therapeutic reasons, then she should have confided in a shrink, and not have dragged her whole family into the torrid mess. And as far as John Phillips is concerned - how does a dead man defend himself??

[sasvermont]

And, I agree, I think the photos/videos made them appear to be way, way, too affectionate, at best. It gave me the creeps.

I do believe her, BUT I also think she is promoting her new book.

She was never a favorite actress of mine. She always had such a sour look on her face.

This falls in to the "whatever" category for me.

I feel really sorry for her for having had to endure such a horrid relationship with her dad, assuming the incest is true.

If she makes some extra money selling this book of her, then, fine. She has had a tough life so far, maybe she can retire and take care of herself with the extra money.

[lvpets2002]

Well I so agree.. I dont know what to think of her.. I did not know what to think of her when she was younger & on that show.. I would say for sure that she & who ever else is involved has lived a very sick life.. And No I will Not buy the book.. I dont care to read about such sickness.. I can hear it everyday on the news..

According to her sister Chynna - it is true and it did happen. However, I don't think the whole world was in need of knowing this. If she wanted to "get it out" for therapeutic reasons, then she should have confided in a shrink, and not have dragged her whole family into the torrid mess. And as far as John Phillips is concerned - how does a dead man defend himself??

[gini]

according to her sister chynna - it is true and it did happen. However, i don't think the whole world was in need of knowing this. If she wanted to "get it out" for therapeutic reasons, then she should have confided in a shrink, and not have dragged her whole family into the torrid mess. And as far as john phillips is concerned - how does a dead man defend himself??

ditto! Ditto! And ditto!

[moosmom]

What chaps my *** about the whole thing is she is trying to come off as being a "victim". She was over the consentual age for God's sake!!! What part of N-O didn't she understand. There are relatives that were there that have verified her story. Who freaking cares? They should all be ashamed of themselves.

I am a victim of rape/molestation and I resent her trying to make people feel sorry for her. I was only 10 years old at the time and it was done by a VERY CLOSE relative, who knew better.

She can blame it on the drugs all she wants. She was an adult who knew better, drugs or no drugs. And I won't be lining her purse by buying the book. UGH!!!

[Catty1]

When MacKenzie was 11, her father introduced her to cocaine...and was the first person to ever inject her with heroin.

Even though the sex started when she was legally an adult, she was definitely under his sway drug-wise. Those two drugs alone are beyond horrible.

Even at 19, she awoke from a blackout to find herself having sex with her father. He had arrived to stop her wedding, which was to happen the next day.

Dad was sick and a control freak...no one was getting "his" girl.

[Edwina's Secretary]

What is interesting to me is that there is great sympathy for the victim of Roman Polanski but very little sympathy for (or even belief in!) Mackenzie Phillips.

Is it because the idea of a father having sex with his daughter is so disgusting we do not want to believe it?

I knew a woman who had her father arrested for having sex with her and her sisters. He finally confessed. Nonetheless her mother and her siblings blamed her for "telling the world" what he had done. She had tried to tell her mother when she was very young. Her mother made fun of her.

I stood up in her wedding. I do not know if I could have done it had I known the whole story at the time. I could not have been civil to her parents.

Her Christian faith told her she must "honor her mother and father." So she forgave them.

I could not. She was a very messed up woman.

Her father had paid for an abortion because he was afraid it was his child. He was a teacher at a Christian school. That is what made her go to the police. She worried for other children he might have access to as a teacher.

I wish I could tell you the number of people who "did not believe her." After all, a father would not do that. I saw the pain and the damage. I still see it in my mind's eye today.

I do not understand why many people write books about what I think should be very private matters - or why they allow tv cameras in their homes. I do not understand how Sarah Palin has a 400 page memoir when she has done nothing special yet in life.

I won't buy Phillips' book (or Palin's either) but to suggest it was her fault - to suggest she would lie about something like...juxapositioned against all the sympathy for Polanski's victim (and I do believe both women were victims!!) makes me very sad.

[Catty1]

ES - I truly hope that young woman has found some healing and peace...and that she married a good man.