9 February 2017 5:44 AM, PST | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
In the decades following herlong-term incestuous relationship with her father, Mackenzie Phillips struggled with forgiving him –and herself.
In her first book, High on Arrival, Phillips revealed that she and her father,The Mamas & the Papas singer John Phillips, had anincestuous relationship for 10 years after he raped her at age 19.
In her new book, Hopeful Healing: Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction, the 57-year-old writes openly about the abuse and the years-long struggle to forgive her father, who died in 2001.
“Do I think that my father held me in his arms when I was a baby and thought, »
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