Michelle Phillips denies incest allegations: 'Mackenzie has a lot of mental illness.'

I'm thinking Mama Michelle has got it just about right, here.

I think Michelle is in denial. I believe Mackenzie.

It's textbook for her to deny it just as it's textbook for attention seekers like Mac to make up these types of stories.

Doesn't ring true. I guess in her mind, since at the end of the day, she is deeply in love with her father, this is her way of one upping the siblings.

We are not interested in her addiction. There are plenty of addicts in the street. Why is she any different? Because she's rich and white?

Please..

Totally lie.

It will come out. Watch and see...

The only textbook is commentators who seek to silence victims of abuse.
That's a book to burn. In the same bonfire that haunts the silenced.

WHO would make that up? It is typical of families to blame the victim and be in denial just like they are all in denial about how drug use is pernicious and not just "a good time." So, let me get this straight, they are addressing her allegations of incest but not the fact that her father introduced her to heroin and cocaine and a bevy of other substances when she was 11 years old!! for cryin' out loud and they wonder why she has a "mental illness?" As if she just picked this stuff up herself along the way when they are guilty of the same behavior? The '60's my fanny. When you have children it's a different ballgame. You clean up your act and focus on their well-being, not your hedonistic musician lifestyle in California. Jealous, yeah right. All women treat other women that way, she's jealous and that's why, blah blah. I don't think so.

Did Michelle Phillips forget her autobiography? I hate to give this sick pig any more publicity or a dime from book sales, but she herself describes this man's parenting in detail. She says she was so disturbed by her daughter's tales of drugs and neglect that she went to his home and took his children from him and his wife at the time, Genevieve the junkie. She raised those children herself for a time. John and Genevieve couldn't even call the police because they lived in a drug den. Awesome job, Michelle. Your own daughter backs her sister up. You are disgusting.

She goes on national news with this trash and her father is a sick man? She's making money from these disgusting, personal problems and he's sick? How sick is the media to give her newstime and how sick is the public to validate this as news?

Childhood sexual abuse is epidemic in this country with statistics showing 1/3 of girls and 1/6 of boys being victimized before the age of 18. And they are at a greater risk from their fathers, stepfathers, uncles, family friends, then they are from strangers. Mostly, this happens at much younger ages and is devastating to the victim resulting in drug abuse, alcohol abuse, cutting, eating disorders. The fallout of these crimes against children is huge and costly. So Ann I would argue that is why we can't as a society afford to ignore this problem. It is long past time to blow open familial silence. America's children deserve better. Pedophile don't deserve the immunity from prosecution that this silence condones. I am very sad for Mckenzie that she consented to it at some point. Her father really doesn't deserve the sympathy she has given him. Drug addicts make lousy parents-- full-stop. How has her son faired during her using years? This is truly the gift that keeps giving.

With any allegation like this, typically the victim is villified because she/he is not a perfect human, either. Doesn't mean the abuse didn't happen. The wording in the denials by both her stepmothers tells me it probably did. And if her siblings believe her, that's pretty much a guarantee.

Ofcourse she's mentally ill. Incest drives survivors crazy. (Which is probably why Mackenzie recanted the abuse in a later phone call -- o stop the backlash of denial.) This step-monster is pretty much in denial and obviously has her own issues.