Mackenzie Phillips, Chynna Phillips to appear on Oprah together!
She appeared on The Oprah Winfrey show this week to talk about the affair and promote her new book, "High on Arrival. "
She was joined by her "One Day at a Time" costar and pal Valerie Bertinelli.
Nope, not making this up.
Chynna has openly said that she believes her sister. But she also says the news sent her into a depression. "A part of me died when I found out."
Will you watch the show?
Wonder when Mackenzie's stepmom Michelle Phillips will be on Oprah's show to tell her side of the story? She's already denied Mackenzie's allegations and slammed her for soiling her father's legacy.
You know that's gotta be next week's show. This is getting better than Jerry Springer!
More Mackenzie Dish:
Michelle Phillips calls Mackenzie Phillips mentally ill.
Mackenzie Phillips claims she never let her father touch her after her abortion
Chynna Phillips believes Mackenzie Phillips is telling the truth.
MacKenzie talks to Oprah about her dad shooting her up with cocaine for the first time.
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I am definitely going to watch on Friday and I commend Mackenzie for being honest about her past so publicly. I read in her book that she completed Narconon drug treatment and and I wish her the best.
No, I will not watch. The crack fiend is trying to sell books. There are millions of women that have been in abusive relationships and have over come it with out a best seller.
I hold Makenzie responsible for keeping the affair with her father going........with all that she has said about her book and her appearances, I DO NOT feel that she was a VICTIM!!!! She knew better. What a sad thing to do at this point in her life when her fathers rebuttel in 6 ft under and no one else to verify what happened!!!. Does she need the money? YES!! Does she crave the spotlight?? YES?? I don't believe anything she has to say.
Another one hit wonder with a book to sell.
Mackenzie Phillips must have the courage of a thousand incest survivors stuffed into one body. Surely she knew that if she came forward many would proclaim her a liar. She must have known people would deny her truth. She must have expected a public backlash. Yet she spoke. And told our stories.
My heart aches for her, for the pain so evident on her face. My soul cries for what she has been through, yet rejoices in her strength, in her courage, in her ability to tell her truth. But that ache grows deeper when I hear her describe a consensual incestuous relationship, when I hear her attempt to take some form of responsibility for acts a father perpetuated on a daughter. So painfully few seem to be calling it what it is-incest. It's being called a sexual relationship, when it's incest. There is no consent possible when a child, any child of any age, is put in a sexual situation by their parent. All of the power in the parent-child relationship is allocated to the parent; as children our parents tell us when to eat, what to eat, when to sleep, where to sleep; they teach us how to walk and talk and sing, to tell good from bad, right from wrong. They protect us from monsters, and we never expect them to be the monster. We are taught to obey our parents, to please them, to make them proud, and that is all any child wants. It is the job of the parent to protect the child, to keep the child safe. Too many choose to use their power as parent to violate their child, to scar them in a way no other human being ever could. Even if a troubled child were to attempt to seduce a parent, it would be the parent's job to put a stop to the behavior. It was John Phillips' job to protect his daughter. Instead, he violated her and taught her to use drugs to cope with the pain. Now, she is left to deal with the life-long effects of her sexual abuse and subsequent substance use to numb the pain. She was, in effect, broken by her father, and now she must struggle to pick up the pieces of the woman she could have been before she was raped. She will have to deal with this forever. Think about that - no days off, no reprieve, but a constant struggle to cope with feelings only other abuse survivors can fathom, all without the only coping method she's ever had - drugs. And being off the drugs means feeling all that pain and not running away from it, not hiding any longer. It means owning her story. That's the courage of Mackenzie Phillips, and she is my hero.
Oprah - the smashional enquirer of the airwaves. Avoid her at all costs.
They're not stepsisters. Stepsisters are not blood relatives. In order to be stepsisters, the parent of one of them would have to marry the parent of the other. They do not share a biological parent.
Mackenzie and Chynna Phillips, one the other hand, have a parent in common, their father John. That makes them half sisters.
I think her father's legacy was soiled a long time ago.
Why does Oprah give so much credence to the twisted memory of drug addicts? Did she really believe that John Frye could recall the details of events whilst being stoned out of his gourd? And MacKenzie Phillips recounting horrific experiences following periods of blackout? Come on!!
Why is it important what Michelle believes? She had been divorced from John for ten years when the events in question began.