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But in a tell-all book out Wednesday, the former childhood actress reveals that her dad, musician John Phillips of the '60s band the Mamas and the Papas, engaged with her in a long-term incestuous relationship. Phillips, 49, who has survived drug addiction, arrests and divorce, writes in the book "High on Arrival" that she was already a star playing a boy-crazy teen on the TV sitcom "One Day at a Time" when her father had sex with her on the night before she was to marry Jeff Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones entourage, in 1979.
your ad here "On the eve of my wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it," writes Phillips, who was 19 and a heavy drug user at the time. "I had tons of pills, and Dad had tons of everything too. I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father. All I can say is it was the first time I was aware of it. For a moment I was in my body, in that horrible truth, and then I slid back into a blackout." In 1980, she was fired from "One Day at a Time" because of her constant drug use. She even toured with him in a band called the New Mamas and the Papas. "I was a fragment of a person, and my secret isolated me," she writes.
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