what dirty little secret did bijou phillips know about the mackenzie scandal?”
Mackenzie Phillips is dropping her big bombshell on Oprah today, but the secret’s out of the bag: the child star had a decade-long sexual affair with her father, The Mamas and the Papas singer John Phillips. Mackenzie’s sister Chynna Phillips (of singing group Wilson Phillips) spoke to Us Weekly about the trauma of learning the family secret in 1997. She said: [Mackenzie] said, ‘I don’t know why, but I just really felt the need to call you and tell you something that I think you need to know.’ And she went on to tell me that she had had an incestuous relationship with our dad for about 10 years. Somebody could have dropped a piano on my head and I probably wouldn’t have felt it. But I knew it was true. I mean, who in their right mind would make such a claim if it wasn’t true? [I entered] a deep, deep sadness and depression for about 10 days. A part of me died when I found out. Mackenzie and John Phillips. When the affair started, John was still married to his third wife, Genevieve Wait
