Letter corroborates Mackenzie Phillips’ abuse claims against John Phillips
Mackenzie Phillips told Valerie Bertinelli on Get Naked that a letter from a longtime family friend corroborates her abuse allegations against her late father, John Phillips, reframing her memoir-era claims from consensual to an abuse dynamic rooted in grooming she states began long before adulthood; she has previously described a rape at 19 in High on Arrival, and the revelation has divided the Phillips family after John’s 2001 death.