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Mackenzie Phillips stocks “a fresh view” (Entertainment Regular) into her lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal addictions—and reveals the shattering truth behind her complicated, secretive, and detrimental history with her father, the renowned John Phillips of this Mamas & the Papas.
Not long before her fiftieth birthday, Mackenzie Phillips made headlines with her arrest for medication possession at Los Angeles International Airport; the actor-musician-mother had been on her behalf way to a reunion of One Trip to a period, the greatly popular ’70s sitcom on which she once starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper.
Born into rock-and-roll royalty, traveling in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with Donovan at eleven, Mackenzie was raised in an all-access kingdom of hippie independence and heroin cool. As the rising Hollywood star herself, she signed up with the nonstop party in the hedonistic pleasure dome of her father’s making, and a rapt Television set audience watched as Julie Cooper misused away before their sight. By the time Mackenzie found out how profound and dark her father’s trip was heading, it was too later.
As an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime of extra, working tirelessly to reconcile her wonderful, terrible past and the yank of her magnetic father. By showing her journey toward redemption and peacefulness, the celebrity who turned up High on Appearance has finally come back down to globe—to stay.
