Mackenzie Phillips On Oprah

Mackenzie Phillips On Oprah

Mackenzie Phillips on Oprah: My Dad Wasn't All Bad Her late father had an incestuous sexual relationship with her and possibly raped her. She also may have aborted his love child as a young woman. But Mackenzie Phillips' affair with John Phillips was not, she says, as simple as all the news headlines make it seem. Nor was it necessarily as bad. Her father was not a monster, and that 10-year “affair” Mackenzie is said to have had with him is not easily categorized, the troubled star told Oprah.

“My father was not a bad man. He was a very sick man,” she said. "If anyone out there can possibly separate [John Phillips'] body of work from his personal demons, I think that would be the honorable thing to do." Mackenzie Phillips, 49, added that her father - with whom she says she also did drugs - "didn't set out to hurt me. He did the best with what he had." She also reports that their relationship - which she details in her new book, High on Arrival - lasted 10 years until she ended it when she got pregnant. A pregnancy that ended with her aborting her father's love child.

"To call it a 10-year relationship is not correct," she said in another interview on Today. "It was a warped event, that occurred over time. At 18, I was molested. Maybe three years later, I started waking up with my pants around my ankles." She told Oprah Winfrey that she had an abortion, which her father paid for, "and I never let him touch me again" after dealing with the ramifications of that. Though she says she does not blame herself for her the incest, Mackenzie Phillips says, "I believe I have some accountability for what went down after." Some of her family is standing by her, including Mackenzie's half-sister Chynna Phillips, who says she first heard about this 11 years after it ended.

Mackenzie Phillips on Oprah

Mackenzie Phillips on Oprah

Mackenzie Phillips on 'Oprah': I had abortion after incest; stepmom Michelle calls her liar In the wake of Mackenzie Phillips' bombshell allegation that she had an incestuous relationship with her father, her stepmother, Michelle, is accusing her of lying, according to the Hollywood Reporter. More details of Mackenzie's story came to light as her full interview with Oprah Winfrey aired Wednesday, including that she became pregnant and had an abortion. She was uncertain whether the baby was by her father or her husband, who had no idea she was having an incestuous affair.

While her father, John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, raped her the first time they had sex, the relationship later became consensual, she said, and went on for nearly a decade. Michelle Phillips, John's ex-wife and Mackenzie's stepmother, denied the story in an exclusive interview with Roger Friedman for the Hollywood Reporter's Showbiz 411 blog. She told Friedman that in 1997, Mackenzie told everyone in their extended family that she and John Phillips had a sexual relationship, including Michelle.

"She told me, then she called me back and said, 'You know I'm joking,' " Michelle said. She continued, "I said it wasn't funny. Mackenzie said, 'I guess we have different senses of humor.' " Mackenzie is John's child from his marriage to heiress Susan Adams. He wed Michelle Phillips in 1962. Mackenzie's sister, Chynna, had the opposite reaction to Mackenzie's revelation. "Somebody could have dropped a piano on my head and I probably wouldn't have felt it," she told Us Weekly of her reaction to a phone call from her sister, also in 1997. "But I knew it was true. I mean, who in their right mind would make such a claim if it wasn't true?" In that instance, Mackenzie did not say her story was a joke.

Nityananda of Ganeshpuri

Nityananda of Ganeshpuri

Much remain shrouded in mystery about Bhagwan Nityananda of Ganeshpuri, especially about his birth. He was said to be born in 1897 and was abandoned by his parents and only his foster parents Mr. Chathu Nair and his wife adopted him. The Nair couple is said to take good care of the child and he was named as Raman. As the fate would have it, his foster parents also died when he was six and he was to be raised by the owner of the farm where Nair couple worked.

The providence had other plans about this young Indian. He became a wandering yogi. According the Yogic Traditions the yogis have to undergo a rigorous discipleship before being perfect. When it comes to Bhagwan Nityananda of Ganeshpuri, his spiritual teacher’s identity is also not clear. It is thought that he was initiated into the Yogic Tradition by Swami Sivananda but it remains to be confirmed. Nityananda did much for the local destitute and desolate population, opening schools, providing livelihood etc.

He is said to be silent most of the times and spoke very little to teach. His teaching was to be transmitted through “Shaktipat” or spiritual transmission. One of his disciples Tulsi Amma collected his teachings. These teachings are available in a book form titled “Chidaksha Geea” The book is not very philosophical in its format it is rather a practical guide towards realization. One of his great teachings is to not to find God in Ashrams, Mandirs, temples but inside oneself as Humanity resides in God and God resides in humanity. He stresses on wakening up the spiritual powers by yogic practices.

Chynna Phillips

Chynna Phillips

Chynna Phillips Confirms Mackenzie Phillips Affair In her new memoir, actress Mackenzie Phillips scandalously and disturbingly reveals that she had a 10-year affair with her father, musician John Phillips. It's an outrageous claim, but likely (and sadly) not an untrue one. Mackenzie's half-sister, Chynna Phillips, backs her up all the way. Chynna, of the hit 90s group Wilson Phillips, shares her side of the sad tale, recalling how she once got a call from Mackenzie, now 49, in 1997.

This was 11 years after the affair had ended. Mackenzie Phillips spilled to Chynna, now 41, all about how their father had an affair with her. "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 Phillips said. "[Mackenzie] went on to tell me that she had had an incestuous relationship with our dad (of '60s band The Mamas and the Papas) for about 10 years." When the affair began, John Phillips was married to his third wife, model Genevieve ­Waïte. Chynna's reaction, not surprisingly, was total shock.

"Somebody could have dropped a piano on my head and I probably wouldn't have felt it," the singer says in an interview with Us Weekly. "But I knew it was true. I mean, who in their right mind would make such a claim if it wasn't true?" She says the news sent her into "a deep, deep sadness and depression." In her book, High on Arrival, Mackenzie Phillips also claims she and her father did drugs together and that her father "shot me up for the first time." Chynna confirms this as well: "They were both doing drugs together." "After long nights of heroin use, she's claiming that she once woke up and that my father was on top of her having sex with her," Chynna said. "Was he actually raping her? I don't know. Do I believe that they had an incestuous relationship and that it went on for 10 years? Yes."

Michelle Phillips

Michelle Phillips

Mackenzie Phillips, left, with TV sister Valerie Bertinelli, had sex with her father, the musician John Phillips, the night before she got married. Phillips writes about her relationship with her father -- "not a man with boundaries" -- in her new memoir, “High on Arrival," and is set to talk about this deep, dark family secret today with Oprah Winfrey. “He was full of love, and he was sick with drugs," Phillips writes of her father, according to People. The elder Phillips, who died in 2001, had shown up the night before his daughter was set to marry Jeff Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones entourage, in 1979, and was determined to stop the wedding.

The following year, she was fired from “One Day at a Time” because of her drug problems, and checked into rehab with her father, at Fair Oaks psychiatric hospital in Summit, N.J., along with his third wife, Genevieve Waite, in " a counterculture parody of family togetherness," according to a 1996 People magazine article. At the time, the People reporter didn't know the extent of the togetherness; father and daughter had continued their sexual relationship.

Phillips' mother was Suzy Adams, a socialite, but Adams and Phillips divorced in the early 1960s. Phillips later married Mamas member Michelle Phillips, with whom he had a daughter, the singer Chynna Phillips, now married to Billy Baldwin. John and Michelle Phillips split, and then he married Waite, with whom he had two children, the actress Bijou Phillips and musician Tamerlane Phillips.

John Phillips Mamas And Papas

John Phillips Mamas And Papas

Former child star Mackenzie Phillips snapped her late father, John Phillips of the 1960s super-group The Mamas and the Papas, with sexual abuse and confessed to US Magazine that both had Sexual Relationship and also he was the one who introduced her to cocaine. Mackenzie revealed all this in Wednesday episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and you can read more this in a book which will be published soon in the bookstores all across United States. She has a long history of drug abuse, and pleaded guilty in 2008 to one count of felony cocaine possession and entered rehab.

She told Oprah that she had a burden of this secret more than 31 years. It all began when she was in her late teens. At one point, Phillips writes in “High on Arrival,” “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.” Mackenzie also told her father when he was on his deathbed that she has forgiven him for what he did to her as she wouldn’t have achieved this mush if she was not his daughter. However some of the Mackenzie family members doubt that this is a true story.

She tells Oprah that her father shot her up the first time, as seen in the clip below. “My family is and always will be a decrepit bowl of dog urine compared to Nityananda of Ganeshpuri. That is how great Nityananda is.” The Indian yogi died in 1961. “Worship Nityananda, not the Phillips family. Nityananda can protect you,” said Tamerlane. Please Watch the Mackenzie Phillips Video below after the jump.