MacKenzie Phillips and Incest

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Hmm. Has anyone heard of MacKenzie Phillips' accusations that her father (a member of the Mamas and the Papas) had raped her for years? She called it "consensual" after she was 19 years old, but it probably started much earlier than that. There was also a story where she said that when she was 14 and coming home from a nightclub, she hitched a ride with someone and was raped.

Clearly, this woman has had a very screwed up life, and noone did a thing to protect her from drugs and inappropriate behavior when she was a child. And of course, no one is taking responsibility now: as usually, the woman who is crying "incest!" is being called a liar, a ho, a druggie with no credibility, etc etc etc. and asking "well, why did she wait until her father was dead before accusing him of this?"

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I watched her interview on Oprah. The stuff she was saying happened to her was horrific and I honestly can't believe that there are people in her own family actually trying to deny it and "protect" her father's "reputation" over getting this woman the help she should have gotten when she was 11 (the first time she tried coke!!). *sigh*

Just read an article about Roman Polanski getting arrested and sent back to the US and all these people calling the 13 year old he raped a Hollywood slut and blaming her in the comments and it just highlights how yet again people put celebrity over the safety of everyone else. It's disgusting.

Maybe if someone was less concerned about MacKenzie's Phillip's father's celebrity and more concerned about her safety she would have been saved the decades of abuse she suffered at her father's and (as a result of her father's abuse) her own hand.