So this whole Mackenzie Phillips scandal? I can't really say weather or not I believe anything she's said. On one hand, if it's true, that's something that is so incredibly personal and disturbing that I can't really imagine why someone would want to admit it so publicly. Of all places, on the Oprah Winfrey show?
I realize she says it in her book but couldn't she have just left it at that? Okay, you're trying to spread the word, you want to help others in this situation.. Help out a charity, speak to others that have been through the same thing.. But for christ sake, go to counseling first.
On the other hand, the girl has been a drug addict most of her life. She was arrested last year for possession of cocaine and heroine in an airport. Is she even sober? Who says she even wrote this thing when she wasn't high. I just find it hard to believe that someone who's barely out of rehab managed to write, edit, and publish a memoir.
I doubt I'll ever read the book, to be honest. I've already found some contradictions in her story.
"Phillips, now 49, said she was 17 or 18 the first time she can remember having sex with her father." -CNN.com
"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. 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." -CNN.com
Odd, to say the least. Maybe she's telling the truth. I suppose if you were going to lie about such a thing you probably wouldn't say something to the effect of "I consented to a sexual relationship with my father for 10 years." Then again, it would be a little suspicious to say "My dad raped me but I continued to tour with him anyway."
When I was probably 10 or 11 I used to watch this show called "So Weird." It was about a girl who lived on tour with her mom (Mackenzie Phillips) and encountered paranormal happenings along the way. It was an okay show, pretty creepy considering it was played on Disney. I guess the fact that I actually know who Mackenzie Phillips is without ever having known who John Phillips or The Mamas and The Papas were is probably why I find this whole fiasco sort of fascinating.
I realize she says it in her book but couldn't she have just left it at that? Okay, you're trying to spread the word, you want to help others in this situation.. Help out a charity, speak to others that have been through the same thing.. But for christ sake, go to counseling first.
On the other hand, the girl has been a drug addict most of her life. She was arrested last year for possession of cocaine and heroine in an airport. Is she even sober? Who says she even wrote this thing when she wasn't high. I just find it hard to believe that someone who's barely out of rehab managed to write, edit, and publish a memoir.
I doubt I'll ever read the book, to be honest. I've already found some contradictions in her story.
"Phillips, now 49, said she was 17 or 18 the first time she can remember having sex with her father." -CNN.com
"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. 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." -CNN.com
Odd, to say the least. Maybe she's telling the truth. I suppose if you were going to lie about such a thing you probably wouldn't say something to the effect of "I consented to a sexual relationship with my father for 10 years." Then again, it would be a little suspicious to say "My dad raped me but I continued to tour with him anyway."
When I was probably 10 or 11 I used to watch this show called "So Weird." It was about a girl who lived on tour with her mom (Mackenzie Phillips) and encountered paranormal happenings along the way. It was an okay show, pretty creepy considering it was played on Disney. I guess the fact that I actually know who Mackenzie Phillips is without ever having known who John Phillips or The Mamas and The Papas were is probably why I find this whole fiasco sort of fascinating.
I just heard a snippet of this on the radio the other day..too weird!
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True or not, just the idea of it is creepy.
ReplyDeleteI can tell you one thing: If I was having "consensual" sex with my father, I sure as hell am not going to go on Oprah & tell everyone about it. It would be more my style to work it into a novel & disguise it as fiction.
ReplyDeleteTotally disturbing sidenote: one of the sex-pos blogs I read is applauding her for bringing "alternative sex" into the open. *shudders* Yay...let's celebrate incest! WTF?
Exactly, that's why I find it so hard to believe. And that is really disturbing, alternative sex? Eww.
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