Mamas and Papas Singer Also Carried On Incest With Daughter

One Day at a Time sitcom star and narcotics aficionado Mackenzie Phillips is releasing a “tell-all” memoir titled High on Arrival.  It promises to be a heartwarming story about addiction, depravity, despair, self-loathing, rock-bottom-hitting, and, uh, redemption!  Maybe.  But mostly about incest: People has the revelation that Phillips had a long, vaguely consensual sex relationship with her father, singer John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas…  

“On the eve of my wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it,” writes Phillips, who was 19 and a heavy drug user at the time. “I had tons of pills, and Dad had tons of everything too. Eventually I passed out on Dad’s bed.”

“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.”

“Had this happened before? I didn’t know. All I can say is it was the first time I was aware of it.”

That marriage did not work out so well, with Dad third-wheeling it like that.  Mackenzie also told People, “Don’t hate my father,” because he is dead.  Everyone knows you have to divorce the artist from the art and that the Mamas and the Papas were a fine band who channeled the ’60s as well as anyone.  But does being a quarter of the team that did “California Dreamin’” earn you the Michael Jackson Astonishing Musical Talent Pass To Do Real Weird Stuff In Your Private Life?

Source: People.