Mackenzie Phillips, his actor “American Graffiti”recently opened up about her ten-year affair with her father, Mamas & the Papas singer John Phillips, and why she chose to forgive him.

Dad was something elsePhillips said during a meeting with her sister, Chynna Phillips Baldwin. “And I get criticized and trolled online because I have forgiveness in my heart. Forgiveness, because forgiveness is for me, not for the other person. And forgiving doesn’t mean I subscribe or agree with what I’m forgiving him for».

The actress, who opened up about her relationship with her father in her 2009 memoir, said their relationship began when she was 19, when her father raped her. Their relationship lasted 10 years and came to an end when she became pregnant and was not sure if her father was the father of the baby.

It’s very, very complicatedshe told her sister in a video she shared on YouTube on November 29. “And yet, I am calm».

Their father, the sisters agreed, was a complex figure. “It had so many different levels” Chynna Phillips Baldwin said of their father, who died in 2001. “He’s obviously an amazing songwriter and, you know, I loved his laugh, but there was another side of dad that was, I mean, kind of a monster».

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For her part, Mackenzie Phillips reported: “When I wrote the book, I just thought, “I’m not going to Google this, I’m not going to Google that. I’m just going to tell my story as it happened to me. But then, in hindsight, I wasn’t prepared to lose my family».