10 Distraught Details Surrounding Mackenzie Phillips, Who Was In A Sexual Relationship With Her Rocker Father John Phillips

6 /10 Forgiveness On The Deathbed

Before John died in 2001 from heart failure at age 65, he and Mackenzie were not on the best of terms – we can’t blame her though, it was bound to happen.

Forgiving such an act is a difficult decision for anyone to take. Still, Mackenzie acknowledged that she had forgiven her dad just before he died.

Sadly, her father’s death sent her spiraling down the pit of drug use again as she went through another bout of drug abuse after his death.

5 /10 In And Out Of Prison

Mackenzie was arrested in August 2008 for possession of cocaine and heroin. However, Mackenzie wasn’t the only ‘Philips’ familiar with breaking the law.

Phillips was also heavy on alcohol and narcotics. In 1981 John Phillips was also arrested, this time for drug trafficking.

To reduce his jail term to just a month, he and Mackenzie had carried out successful anti-drug campaigns. He spent only three weeks in Prison and got out on the fourth week for good behavior.

4 /10 Daughter And Lover... How It All Started

According to Mackenzie, she was 18 when her father first raped her in a hotel room on the eve of her wedding to Jeff Sessler, which her father disapproved of.

Mackenzie recounted that he came to her hotel room having tons of drugs with him. They both got high together, and she blacked out.

She woke up to the most heartbreaking scene ever – her father having sex with her. However, she never confronted him about it until months later.

3 /10 Rape Or Consensual?

Mackenzie struggled with the knowledge that her dad took advantage of her wasted state and raped her, and for many months, she fought to confront him.

And when asked him why he raped her that night, he replied with the most shocking, nonchalant, blame-shifting statement – “raped you? Don’t you mean we made love?” 

Mackenzie reported that there were no sexual relations for years after this. Sadly, the incestuous coitus picked up again when they went on tours as The New Mamas and Papas.

At the Oprah Winfrey show, She described her relationship with her dad as a type of Stockholm syndrome, where she grew to love the captor, her dad.

2 /10 Addiction And Secrets

Although Mackenzie’s drug addiction was no secret, her affair with her music star dad was well shrouded… or was it? 

While her family was having a hard time believing that their hero could have done something as sick as raping and engaging in sexual relations with his daughter for many years, Jessica Woods, the daughter of former The Mamas and Papas member, Denny Doherty, said her father was aware of the “awful truth” all along and was equally horrified.

However, Mackenzie was not surprised by this revelation.

1 /10 All Is Well That Ends Well

With three failed marriages, a career that almost ended from drug abuse, and spilling some dark secrets which cost her the love of a family, Mackenzie sure didn’t have life go easy on her. However, she refused to be beaten down again. 

In 2016, Mackenzie became a drug rehab counselor at Breathe Life Healing Centre, counseling drug addicts and helping them chart a better path for themselves.

She went further to publish another book in 2017, detailing her recovery from abuse and her survival so far. 

Although Mackenzie’s relationship with her dad became consensual over time, it took a pregnancy and an abortion (paid for by John Phillips) for Mackenzie to snap out of the relationship finally.

Mackenzie was the victim at the receiving end of it all. A father should ward off predators and not become one himself, and this was where John failed as a father.