Some people will do anything for money.
I think Mackenzie Phillips is a good example of someone caring more about making mounds of cash than anything else.
She has a new tell-all book, High on Arrival.
Her book redefines "tell-all."
She should have titled it, "My Consensual Sexual Relationship with My Dad."
Phillips appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Wednesday to publicize her book. I guess that's the next best thing to having Winfrey choose it for her book club.
From the Chicago Tribune:
Former child star Mackenzie Phillips said Wednesday that she had a decade-long sexual relationship with her father, pop superstar John Phillips, who also taught her how to roll joints and injected her with cocaine.
Mackenzie Phillips, 49, writes in her new book, "High on Arrival," that she had sex with her father on the night before she was to get married in 1979 at age 19.
Phillips wrote in her book: "I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father." John Phillips, who died in 2001, was the leader of the 1960s group the Mamas and the Papas.
She told "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in an interview that aired Wednesday that her siblings "definitely have a problem with this." Winfrey also read a statement from Genevieve Waite, John Phillips' wife at the time of the alleged abuse and Mackenzie's stepmother. Waite's statement said John Phillips was "incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child."
Phillips, 49, who starred on TV's "One Day at a Time," said the sexual relationship with her father lasted a decade and ended when she became pregnant and didn't know who had fathered the child. She had an abortion, which her father paid for, and "and I never let him touch me again."
Phillips tells Oprah that she had sex with her dad for ten years, and that it became a consensual relationship.
The sexual relationship ended when she was 29!
Phillips was an adult when the alleged relationship began. She was a grown woman when she decided to end the consensual relationship. Who wouldn't end it when faced with the possibility of being pregnant with your dad's child? That's perfectly reasonable, right?
After the abortion, the party was over.
UNBELIEVABLE! ABSOLUTELY SICK!
From Billboard:
Phillips' family -- which includes former stepmother and Mamas and Papas member Michelle Phillips and half-sister Chynna Phillips of the 1990's trio Wilson Phillips -- had mixed reactions to the accusations.
In a conversation with Hollywood Reporter columnist Roger Friedman, Michelle Phillips said, "John was a bad parent, and a drug addict. But [expletive deleted] his daughter? If she thinks it's true, why isn't she with a good psychiatrist on a couch? I think it's unconscionable that Oprah would let her do her show. I have every reason to believe it's untrue. Oprah should be more judicious about who she has on her show."
On the broadcast, Winfrey read a statement from Genevieve Waite, John Phillips' wife at the time of the alleged abuse and Mackenzie's stepmother that said he was "incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child."
But Chynna supports her half-sister's version of events, and even claims to have known about the abuse since 1997 after a shocking phone call from Mackenzie.
"She said, 'I don't know why, but I just really felt the need to call you and tell you something that I think you need to know,'" Chynna told Us Weekly. "And she went on to tell me that she had had an incestuous relationship with our dad for about 10 years.
"Somebody could have dropped a piano on my head and I probably wouldn't have felt it," she continued. "But I knew it was true. I mean, who in their right mind would make such a claim if it wasn't true?"
That's a good question? Was/is Mackenzie Phillips in her right mind?
Phillips' half-sister Chynna believes the charge. Michelle Phillips and Genevieve Waite, former wives of John Phillips, don't.
Is Mackenzie Phillips telling the truth or telling all to sell books?
Her father is dead. He can't address her charges. She can say whatever she wants. It's not a case of he said, she said. It's she said. End of story, the last word.
If the story is true, I can't think of any reason why Mackenzie Phillips would want to tell the world. Is it really necessary for her personal healing?
I can't imagine her thinking this: To come to terms with having consensual sex with my dad up until I was 29, I must write a book about my illegal behavior and promote it on Oprah.
That's not healing. That's not trying to help others. That's not a selfless act. That's exploitation. Cha-ching.
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