Mackenzie Phillips has stunned fans and family by confessing she conducted a sexual relationship with her musician father John Phillips for years.

The former child star was just 19 when The Mamas & The Papas singer raped her on the night before she married Jeff Sessler in 1979.

She writes in new book High on Arrival, "On the eve of my wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it (the wedding). 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. For a moment I was in my body, in that horrible truth, and then I slid back into a blackout."

The star's addiction spiraled out of control in the following years and even a shared stint in rehab with the California Dreamin' hit-maker failed to put an end to their drug use. The incestuous relationship later became consensual as the dad and daughter began touring in a band called the New Mamas and the Papas.

She adds, "I was a fragment of a person, and my secret isolated me. One night Dad said, 'We could just run away to a country where no one would look down on us. There are countries where this is an accepted practice. Maybe Fiji.' He was completely delusional."

"'No,' I thought, 'we're going to hell for this.'"


This March 5, 1981 file photo shows John Phillips of the pop group 'The Mamas and The Papas,' left, and his daughter MacKenzie, right shown during a taping of the John Davidson Show in Burbank, Calif. (AP Photo/File)


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