{"id":36856,"date":"2025-09-04T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=36856"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:17:47","slug":"mackenzie-phillips-familys-reaction-to-alleged-incest-relationship-with-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=36856","title":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Phillips’ family\u2019s reaction to alleged incest relationship with dad"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Warning: This article contains discussion of rape which some readers may find distressing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Actor Mackenzie Phillips wrote a bombshell book on her alleged 10-year incestuous relationship with her father – the frontman of the ’60s band The Mamas & The Papas, which divided the family.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 65-year-old, of Los Angeles in California<\/a>, published a memoir<\/a> back in 2009 accusing her late dad<\/a> John Phillips of raping<\/a> her in 1979 – the night before she was due to marry a member of the Rolling Stones’ entourage.<\/p>\n

“I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father,” she wrote in the book, titled High on Arrival<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The actor<\/a> explained how when she plucked up the courage to confront her father over the accusations, he said it wasn’t rape and instead he made love to her.<\/p>\n

Her family were split on the horrific revelation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her stepmom Genevieve Waite, and wife at the time the abuse is alleged to have gone on, issued a statement claiming Phillips was ‘incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child’.<\/p>\n

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Mackenzie Phillips and her father John Phillips, frontman of ‘The Mamas & The Papas’, pictured back in 1981 at the time the alleged abuse took place (Ron Galella\/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

While his second wife, Michelle Phillips, also questioned whether the accusations were real.<\/p>\n

Her half-sister Chynna Phillips Baldwin has always backed Mackenzie’s claims, noting the 1997 phone call the pair had around 11 years after the alleged abuse ended.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on their father 14 years later, while speaking on Chynna’s YouTube<\/a> channel, Chynna said: “One of my favorite individuals in the whole wide world is John Phillips, he’s a very – talk about complex, so many different levels to who he was.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, he’s an amazing songwriter.”<\/p>\n

Mackenzie interjects: “Genius.”<\/p>\n

Chynna continued: “You know, I loved his laugh, and yet there was this whole other side to Dad that was kind of like a monster.”<\/p>\n

Mackenzie added: “Very, very dark side.”<\/p>\n

Before she later said: “Dad was something else and I get a lot of criticism and a lot of trolling online for having forgiveness in my heart.<\/p>\n

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“Forgiveness because forgiving is for me not for the other person, and forgiving doesn’t mean I cosign or agree with what I’m forgiving you for – or him for – it’s very complicated it’s very, very complicated and yet I am at peace.”<\/p>\n

When she appeared on Oprah years later after her book came out, she said that it progressed: “Fast-forward…and it’s 1981, maybe, and we’re touring and I begin waking up after drug-fuelled events with my pants around my ankles and my father sleeping beside me.”<\/p>\n

She added that she had to forget about it: “Again, ‘Don’t think, don’t look, just keep going.'”<\/p>\n

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Chynna Phillips Baldwin and Mackenzie reflect on their father (YouTube\/Chynna Phillips Baldwin)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Mackenzie added: “It didn’t happen every day, it didn’t happen every week, but it certainly happened and it happened enough times.”<\/p>\n

After the initial assault, she claimed that she began a consensual sexual relationship with her father.<\/p>\n

She said: “It’s sort of the Stockholm Syndrome, where you begin to love your captor. And I felt great love for my father.”<\/p>\n

It only ended after she became pregnant and she couldn\u2019t be sure of who the father was.<\/p>\n

If you’ve been affected by any of the issues in this article, you can contact The National Sexual Assault Hotline on 800.656.HOPE (4673), available 24\/7. Or you can chat online via<\/em> online.rainn.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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