MacKenzie Phillips and Incest

[gategrrl]

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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[khek.livejournal.com]

I didn't see the Oprah interview, but I saw her on the Today Show. It really was horrible, and I believe that it did happen. I saw another article about her years ago, that talked about how she lived on a beach in Hawaii with John and her stepmother (I don't think it was Michelle Phillips) in a tent with no running water and no supervision. I think they took off for days once when she was five or six at the time, and she had to find a way to contact her mother in the states to come pick her up.

At any rate, I'm sure there were people who could have helped her, but who didn't even blink at what was going on because tolerating it got them closer to "stardom" in the shape of her father.