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Mackenzie Phillips reveals incest with musician father
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | 12:59 PM ET
Former actress Mackenzie Phillips has made a shocking revelation prior to the release of her new memoir, announcing that she had a sustained incestuous relationship with her famed musician father, John Phillips.
Phillips, 49, is set to discuss the relationship and her infamous, long-running battle with substance abuse on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show airing Wednesday as her book is released.
In a preview for the title, High on Arrival, Phillips says that by the age of 19 she was already a heavy drug user and regularly stoned.
The former One Day at a Time star claims that in 1979, on the eve of her wedding to her first husband, rock music manager Jeff Sessler, her father arrived to try to stop her from getting married.
After getting high together, Phillips says she later awoke and discovered her father raping her. A sexual relationship that she called "consensual" continued for about a decade after, she said.
The relationship ended when she became pregnant and, unsure of who had fathered the child, chose to have an abortion, Phillips told Winfrey.
She also said that her siblings "definitely have a problem with" her revelation.
During the interview segment, Winfrey read out a statement from Phillips's stepmother Genevieve Waite, her father's wife at the time of the alleged abuse. Waite said he was "incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child."
John Phillips, a member of the famed group the Mamas and the Papas, died in 2001.
Mackenzie Phillips reveals incest with musician father
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | 12:59 PM ET
Former actress Mackenzie Phillips has made a shocking revelation prior to the release of her new memoir, announcing that she had a sustained incestuous relationship with her famed musician father, John Phillips.
Phillips, 49, is set to discuss the relationship and her infamous, long-running battle with substance abuse on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show airing Wednesday as her book is released.
In a preview for the title, High on Arrival, Phillips says that by the age of 19 she was already a heavy drug user and regularly stoned.
The former One Day at a Time star claims that in 1979, on the eve of her wedding to her first husband, rock music manager Jeff Sessler, her father arrived to try to stop her from getting married.
After getting high together, Phillips says she later awoke and discovered her father raping her. A sexual relationship that she called "consensual" continued for about a decade after, she said.
The relationship ended when she became pregnant and, unsure of who had fathered the child, chose to have an abortion, Phillips told Winfrey.
She also said that her siblings "definitely have a problem with" her revelation.
During the interview segment, Winfrey read out a statement from Phillips's stepmother Genevieve Waite, her father's wife at the time of the alleged abuse. Waite said he was "incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child."
John Phillips, a member of the famed group the Mamas and the Papas, died in 2001.