Mackenzie Phillips: Incestuous Relationship NOT Consensual!

Mackenzie Phillips

Mackenzie Phillips says  the incestuous relationship she had with her father, 'The Mamas & The Papas' singer John Phillips, was not consensual.

 On Tuesday, during the HLN's 'Joy Behar Show', the woman declared she refused to have sexual relationships with her father but he somehow forced her. "I'd like to reframe my word consensual. As I was writing the book, I thought, this word, it kept sitting wrong with me. But I used it for lack of a better word. Since then, I've been schooled by thousands of incest survivors all across the world that there really is no such thing as consensual incest due to the inherent power a parent has over a child. I wouldn't necessarily call it a consensual relationship at this time", Phillip said.
Talking about this issue, Dr. Drew agreed that incest cannot be consensual. "The child is trying to make sense of this situation she feels as though the only she can survive it is by saying, 'I'm creating it, I have some power in this, I'm consenting to it'. When the fact is, the kind of relationship a parent has with a child makes consent actually impossible", he said.
The information about 'One Day at a Time' star having sex with her father the night before she was to marry Jeff Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones entourage, in 1979 appears in her tell-all book. "On the eve of my wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it. I had tons of pills, and Dad had tons of everything too. Eventually I passed out on Dad's bed", she writes in the book.