They blame her because her father was a celebrity. People don't want to believe bad things about their precious idols. Mackenzie should have gotten complete 100% support for coming out with this abuse. Who would want to profit off of incest?

I'm on MacKenzie's side.......

Lisa is acting as a true friend; she used her words carefully and tried to lend credibility to what she saw and what she believes. Good for her, supporting someone when it's a very difficult subject.

this was not publicity for mckenzie it is healing for her

They're blaming the victim as usual! It's really sad

The whole family knew what was happening including Michelle, but she's a lot more interested in preserving the mama's and papa's musical legacy than in admitting the truth. Denny Dougherty's daughter came to Mackenzie's defence and confirmed that her father had told her that the incest stories were true, so even the other band members knew what was happening.

Good for her for speaking out. Her step mothers are a tragedy, and there are lots like them out there who allow men to do this to their kids. I am shocked the second wife is in such denial given she was just 16 when he was with her. I’d turn things around to say, “we collectively are hurt that folks like you remain so blatantly blind to this problem, and continue to villianize the victims.”

I applaud Valerie and Chynna for standing by MacKenzie - I hope that eases some of her pain. MacKenzie is brave beyond words for exposing her father's bad behaviour at last. Oh, and I applaud MacKenzie most of all!

Why go public? Because there is nothing more insulting and hurtful than when your abuser is being praised for being this perfect human being when he is not. They are all public figures, so it only makes sense to expose him publicly. My mom's psychologist told her to tell the truth about my father everytime someone asked her about why their marriage ended, because lying would only keep a weight on her shoulders while she still covered up the monster my dad was. And so I think it's the natural step in the healing process, to call out your monster and let the chips fall where they may.

Lisa is so real though and Mackenzie Phillips deserves love and respect. NOT backlash for coming forward with the abuse she endured.

I’m glad she has amazing friends and support ❤️

John Phillips' selfish behaviour began in (around) 1960 when he kept abandoning his wife and two children to be in folk bands. He moved them all to San Francisco, within a few months he left his wife for a 16 year old and sent his whole family packing. It was down hill from then I think.

MP told sister Bijoux this all years ago before she even went public.

This has been known about for years. And it is so disgusting how any parent can take advantage of their own children and do something so horrid to them. And Mackenzie has talked about before not just the rape/incest with her father, but that he is the reason she began using drugs (I would think going through something like that would drive a person to drugs or alcohol) but what she's said is that her dad is the one that shot her up with heroin her first time. What the hell kind of parent does that? Also when she was 18, there was a party and her father had left to go to store and left her and Mick jagger and when John left, jagger locked the door and said I've been waiting for this since you were 10 years old, and then had sex with her. WTF?! Ok she may have been 18 then but who the fuck dreams of having sex with a 10 year old? Sick!

I think she’s incredibly brave.

Everyone’s on McKenzie’s side that has any kind of a brain

Me too i believe her. ❤️

very well said to even suggest that we know anything about what has happened to her or what she will still even face is ignorant. i applaud you and i have gained a deeper appreciation and love for who you are. Many told me to keep my life quiet and the abuse quiet cause it was embarrasing. GOD Help us all. If more people would stand up and speak out it would save lives and brokeness.

INTERESTING that Michelle Phillips played Valerie's mother on 90210....and Val shot her own father because he was having sex with her and when the truth came out the scenes with Michelle were VERY powerful....

She didn't make this up...If you have not had a jerk as a father...plz don't judge...... Lived similar life with a sorry drunk father. Found him deady my brother and I after coming home from school... Liver damage ..too many pap.blue ribbon beers...Such freedom after that...but I had to forgive along time ago... God expected this of me

This is why victims don't come forward becayse they always risk getting attacked and adding to their trauma. Makes me sick!

Who would make this up??

I believe every word of it. Every child wants to love and honor their parents but she was betrayed by both father and mother. She must know that what happened says nothing about her but volumes about her father. I pray she becomes born again as Jesus can take away her pain and heaven will be without sorrow.

Oh my god they did not just bring on the next top model contestant!

Go, Mackenzie! Big support and belief, of course. (September 2023).

Mackenzie’s side all the way xx

What a mess

I believe Mackenzie.

shame on the family

Funny how you can write a few jingles and be adored and world famous while James Maxwell Clerk discovered electricity, Howard Florey developed penecillin for human use and saved millions and millions of lives and no one knows their names.

Dr drew is probably in on it too

I heard that she became pregnant by her father.

@CathedralOfGhosts did i get the ages wrong?

If her dad did such then he should have gone to prison. What happened to the liberal press mantra, "It's the seriousness of the charge?". If such is true, then why sweep the alleged crime under the rug?

You're so beautiful Mackenzie..

Is Lisa D'mato not an actress? Her last name rings a bell.

J. Marques. My son has the same initials. I'm D. Marques. I ques Marques is an familiar name.

Nobody makes that up

Well Sxxx-if it's reality TV it has to be the truth!!

This Lisa D'Amato girl really shit the bed toward the end of her interview. It was like one of those trainwreck Miss USA question and answer clips that goes viral.

omg you hit it head on!

Great interview. I like the message about daughters shouldn't tell and just shut the fuck up because they're whores. Well, at least that's what I think the interviewer was saying. Or should I say, "some people say".

I cannot believe I sat and watched a full docu about her and the incest thing THEN another vid about her defending him...WTF? No wonder so many people thinks she's bullshitting.

Why go public, Because it's been an old family secret in this country for too,too long!!!!!!!!!

I can never trust actors fully because even when they seem truthful they are well...actors

And she needed to sell books!

let's not forget that Michelle was something like 16 when she started with John Phillips. He was something like 23. So, that he would cross the line to his teenage daughter isn't so out there for me.

I have questions. How do we know this happened? All we have is her word after he is dead and can't defend himself. I'm NOT saying she is a liar. Just how can we just take her word for it? Did she submit to a lie detector test? Did she have any proof at all? Often (not always) an abuser does not assault only one child. He had other children, and yet none of them say they ever felt like he made them feel uncomfortable like this. Again I'm not calling her a liar, just don't understand how we can make all these judgements about him with no proof.

Sad to say if you have no looks or talent, it is hard to convince anyone you matter.

Does anyone find it rather ironic that scandals like this usually happen after the accuser is dead? I am surprised that nobody had mentioned that John Phillips is not here to defend himself and that it is rather ironic that this all comes out after she writes a tell all book. If this happened in the 80's, why wait 20 years to announce this. She also did mention that it became consensual. At that age, SHE knew better. I don't really see her as a victim the way everyone else does.

Who cares what the liberal press thinks or says!

Although the timing of those incest allegations seem rather convenient at the same time as MacKenzie`s book release was,I wouldn`t be surprised if this went on between her and her father,considering how both were psychologically damaged and bruised from drug abuse and she obviously still is.

Nice that she has experienced that!! Not many people have that luxery!!

Why would you interview her ?

I don't believe her! She's a has been but this is a good way for her to write a book and sell it.

Drew says she may have had distortions about the relationships.

MP has been telling exaggerated stories forever. she REALLY wants attention.

I really don't believe she is telling the truth.

So I made a mistake, whatever, big deal. I posted a one sentence response and you devoted 3 paragraphs to it. It's obvious that you consider yourself some kind of expert on all things John Phillips. However, I agree with your postings re: Scientology and don't believe for a second Mackenzie's allegations. I'm a massive JP fan, have Wolfking... on vinyl, actually BOUGHT Man on the Moon, etc. so lets move on.

who's your daddy

Never trust a word a drug fiend says . Especially when they speak ill of the dead, and just released a book on the topic . Bogus claims by a bogus has-been .

I wish that I was her father.....

she's lying

JUST LOOKING FOR ATTENTION , SHE DOES THIS KIND OF STUFF EVERY SO MANY YEARS.

You people love the victim. You don't care if it is true. So long as you have this poor victim to pray for. Who cares if it was all made up to sell books and smear te music industry. You believe what you want to believe.

I smell bullshit. She waits until she's releasing a book, 9 years after her father died, to tell us that she had a 10 year incestuous relationship with her father, while she was in her twenties? WTF? Hard to believe that an adult married woman would have let that happen, for such a long period of time. Even harder to believe that she never told anyone about it, until years later. It's more likely that a lifetime drug addict needed money, wrote a tell all book, and decided to spice it up, and drive sales with allegations that couldn't be challenged, because John was long dead.