The Mamas and Pappas’ Secret

Frankly I do not want to talk about celebrities… At least not anytime soon, let alone bring bad news… But the book was released this month here in America, and it’s really shocking. The secret that the author has revealed to the world almost scared me to death!

The worst is that it is not just a ‘story’ but a true story.

I’m against polygamy, the sale of babies and incest. I had the idea that had pretty much gone out the window. Silly me…

Another thought that occurred to me a few times in life was about mothers who had sons…

Did they have to hide their feminine side?

Does this somehow fit the Oedipus complex where Greek mythology says that the character killed his father to marry the mother?

Mackenzie Phillips, daughter of John Phillips of Mamma’s and Pappa’s, exposes herself this week in her book “High On Arrival”, of how her father taught her how to inject herself with cocaine from the age of 11, and at 14 woke up from a blackout in bed after having sex with her own father!

She also reveals that Mick Jagger criticized John Phillips for using drugs in front of the children, but when she turned 18 Jagger himself took her to bed.

The former actress admits that the incest lasted several years until she was pregnant and did not know if the baby was the father’s or boyfriend’s. They had sex up until the night before her wedding in 79. By the way, her father paid for the abortion.

During this same time she was doing the show “One Day at a Time”, she had never revealed this to anyone until the day she wrote the book.

Of course she said much more, but for me that was quite enough, even too much.

The important thing is that though she was in hell, she didn’t stay there. And just as abusers change the lives of victims, she is trying to change the lives of others like her and abusers like her father by breaking the long silence of shame.

For me it was shocking. But for Mackenzie the consequences will live on and will continue throughout her life, and be passed on from generation to generation. By breaking down the shameful silence she believes will impart courage to others to do the same.

Aren’t parents supposed to protect their children?

In my simplicity, something inside of me says that directly after God in Heaven is Father on earth.

Filed under: Confessions

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