Mackenzie Phillips: I Slept with My Own Father

Mackenzie Phillips:
I Slept with My Own Father

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September 22, 2009

"Don't hate my father," Mackenzie Phillips tells PEOPLE.

But in a tell-all book out Wednesday, the former childhood actress
reveals that her dad, musician John Phillips of the '60s band the
Mamas and the Papas, engaged with her in a long-term incestuous relationship.

Phillips, 49, who has survived drug addiction, arrests and divorce,
writes in the book High on Arrival that she was already a star
playing a boy-crazy teen on the TV sitcom One Day at a Time when her
father had sex with her on the night before she was to marry Jeff
Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones entourage, in 1979.

FLASHBACK: Mackenzie & Her Dad Kick $1 Million Drug Habit

"On the eve of my wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop
it," writes Phillips, who was 19 and a heavy drug user at the time.
"I had tons of pills, and Dad had tons of everything too. Eventually
I passed out on Dad's bed."

"My father was not a man with boundaries. He was full of love, and he
was sick with drugs. I woke up that night from a blackout to find
myself having sex with my own father."

"Had this happened before? I didn't know. All I can say is it was the
first time I was aware of it."

Phillips' life began to spiral out of control. In 1980, she was fired
from One Day at a Time because of her constant drug use. That same
year, she went to rehab ­ with her father. Her sexual relationship
with him had become consensual.
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For much more from Macknezie's book ­ including her fling with Mick
Jagger, what her family said about her rape accusations and her fears
that she was pregnant with her own father's baby ­ pick up the new
issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now

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