MACKENZIE PHILLIPS AND CHYNNA PHILLIPS TOGETHER

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

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They sat down for an interesting talk on Chynna's blog, "Chynna Phillips Baldwin". Just google. "The One Thing Mackenzie Wishes She'd Done Differently"

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I'm not one to be interested in "celebrity" blogs, but every so often I check on the Chynna Phillips' one, for the theology content, mostly. But she touches on all sorts of topics, both deadly serious and funny. And she is hilarious.

These half-sisters ( same father, different mothers) have such a long history, and they are so loving and understanding of each other, their traumas and their accomplishments. It's a startlingly genuine conversation.

Despite the awful things they've endured, and allude to in the video, they also laugh uproariously. One of them said that Newsweek (I think), declared them to be the second most dysfunctional family in Hollywood, after the Kennedys. ( Kennedys = Hollywood? Oh, well, journalistic hyperbole...)

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Doesn't Mackenzie look lovely? I'm so glad she is a useful, contributing member of society, having faced her addictions and her past. Her recollections of "American Graffitt" and of "One Day at a Time" ( especially cryptic pronouncements to her from the late Norman Lear ) are fascinating slices of Hollywood child star history.

Separately and together, they each have a sensitive, somewhat kooky, intuitively "fey' quality (hard to describe) which I instantly recognize from my own family, and therefore always tune in to in other people....

It's a very good watch.

Daisy Sunflower · ‎10-26-2010

MP grosses me out.

KingstonMom · ‎05-20-2023

@Daisy Sunflower

A 10 year affair with her own Father, will gross most people out.

Love my grandkids · ‎11-24-2013

@KingstonMom Her so-called father began sexually abusing her at a young age and got her addicted to drugs. I don't blame her 100%. He was scum as a human being. I say so-called because a real, loving father would never have done such evil things.

RainCityWoman · ‎06-16-2015

@KingstonMom wrote:
@Daisy Sunflower

A 10 year affair with her own Father, will gross most people out.

THAT I hadn't heard. I knew she and he did drugs together.

Love my grandkids · ‎11-24-2013

@RainCityWoman It was common knowledge that he began abusing her sexually at a young age and he is the one who got her addicted to drugs.

cody2 · ‎03-19-2010

I wouldn't exactly call what she had with her father a "10 year affair". I would call it one of the worst cases of child abuse I have ever seen. Getting her hooked on heavy drugs and taking advantage of her for over a decade? How he escaped a long jail sentence I don't know. HE is the gross one!

Kitty Galore · ‎03-16-2010

@Love my grandkids wrote:
@RainCityWoman It was common knowledge that he began abusing her sexually at a young age and he is the one who got her addicted to drugs.

@Love my grandkids & @RainCityWoman Absolutely disgusting to think of a father doing this ! I had heard about it before , still find it just unbelievable. What is wrong with her mother as she had to know? She must have had to have extensive therapy after she finally got off drugs and had to face what happened to her .

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

Yes, it is horrendous. The children of John Phillips were witnesses to things no child should have to see or experience. He was teaching Mackenzie how to roll marijuana cigarettes when she was 10, and also injected her with drugs. Her exposure to drugs and alcohol grew into addictions, and she woke up from a blackout one day, to realize that John Phillips had raped her. The nightmare scenario continued episodically after that, for a number of years.

@cody2 , from what I've heard of it, I agree with your assessment of it as one of the worst cases of parent-child abuse imaginable. In that grotesque scenario, where a father initiated his daughter into drugs, groomed her, and abused her in between the squalid drug episodes they shared, I can only place the onus squarely on him. No child or adolescent could emerge from that upbringing unscathed, cruelly used and victimized as she was by one who should have been her protector, her own father.