During her appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show today, Chynna Phillips – the half-sister of Mackenzie Phillips, who recently admitted to a decade-long incestuous relationship with her rock star father John – said she did know about the long-running affair and said she was “proud” of her sister for going public with the revelation, according to published reports. With Mackenzie watching the interview via satellite, Chynna told Winfrey that while people may have been horrified by the news detailed in her sister’s new book High on Arrival, Mackenzie “had the courage.”
When asked by Oprah if she believed her older sister, Chynna laughed and said, “How can the details be perfectly accurate, when you’re on drugs?” she said. “I do know there was a consensual relationship between my father and sister,” she continued. “I’ve known that for about 12 years.”
Chynna Phillips’ mother is Michelle Phillips, a former member of the Mamas and the Papas with John Phillips. Michelle told a Hollywood trade paper this week that she believed the allegations were false and that Mackenzie had “a lot of mental illness.”
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Still having trouble understanding going public, or the book..
The lifestyle started early and turned totally consensual.
So how much is this about thinking it was so wrong, as it is about selling the book?
So much drug use, a depraved father, and childhood and lifestyle..Some people really are not so upset with thier lives..But it it sells a book and makes millions…why not shock the rest of the world?
If this is really about healing and helping..maybe some of the proceeds of that book should go to incest survivor help ?
How was MacKenzie Phillips able to permit a “consensual relationship” with her father John for so long? Was she forced by her father to have sex with him? Did he threaten her life if she didn’t have sex with him? WHAT IS THE WHOLE STORY??? I’m all for exorcising your demons but not on the grand scale Ms. Phillips chose…nat’l TV & The Oprah Winfrey Show!!! For heaven’s sake, Oprah…would you stop being such a tabloid program??? I’ve lost my respect for Oprah a long, long time ago & hearing this just keeps this loss intact.
I suspect Tatum O’Neal will come out with a similiar story one of these days. Incest is a dirty little secret that is far more common than some people realize. I imagine it is even more common when hard drugs are involved. It is sad that relatives not involved will attack the victim and either say they are lying or that it was all their fault.
saying this chick has “mental illness” is like saying New Orleans after Katrina was a “little damp.” She’s the latest mayor of CrazyTown, and I can’t believe that people will actually pay her to spin these delusions. She’s been a junkie for nearly all her adult life. Her brain is probably so damaged and tired that she can’t remember from one to the next what she had for breakfast. Junkies are criminals, liars and master manipulators. This book is just another needle in the arm, only instead of just taking down herself, this time she wants to take the whole family with her.
I think that it is sad that people are so quick to judge someone. Regardless of the fact tht she was a junkie is irrelevant. people who know nothing about the horrors of incest should keep their opinions to themselves. I think it is quite brave of her to admit what happened to her so hopefully now she can heal. Tragedies like incest affect people in many different ways. So sorry she endured the pain and it inadvertently screwed up most of her life.I think she is a remarkable woman and if this is the way she choose to heal her pain, kudos! so many chidren who were raped choose to repress the nightmare, and even the thought that the relationship turned consensual saddens me. It just proves that she was very mixed up. Judgemental people, get a life.