Bijou
Phillips "heartbroken" she was left alone with her father as a
teenager.
Actress Bijou Phillips says she knew her half-sister Mackenzie Phillips had consensual sex with their father, Mamas and the Papas leader John Phillips.
In a statement read by Oprah Winfrey on her talk show Friday, Bijou Phillips says she was 13 years old when Mackenzie Phillips told her about the sexual
relationship. Bijou Phillips, now 29, says the news was confusing and scary, and that it was "heartbreaking" to think her family would leave her alone with
her father knowing what he did
Appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Friday, Mackenzie Phillips said
their father "had changed his ways as much as he was able to" and that she
felt
Bijou Phillips was safe. But Mackenzie says she did go get her sister when she "felt like she
wasn't
being watched properly." Mackenzie Phillips claims in a new book that she had a long-term incestuous
relationship with her father, musician John Phillips of the 60's group the Mamas and the Papas.
In "High on Arrival," her new tell-all book which hits stores today,
the former "One Day at a Time" star says her first recollection of her
father
having sex with her was on the night before her wedding to Jeff Sessler, a member of the Rolling Stones entourage.
In an interview with People magazine, Phillips,
now
49, pleads with readers "don't hate my father."
"On the eve of my [1979] wedding, my father showed up, determined to stop it," Phillips, who was a teenager and strung out on drugs at the time,
writes. "I had tons of pills, and Dad had tons of everything too.
Eventually I passed out on Dad's bed.
"My father was not a man with boundaries. He was full of love and he was sick with drugs. I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having
sex with my own father. Had this happened before? I didn't know. All I can say is that it was the first time I was aware of it."
According to Phillips, the relationship eventually became consensual and continued for ten years.
Phillips also told talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey that it was her father who shot her up for the first time with cocaine when she was just ten years old.
"I remember going into my room, I was crouched on the floor. ... He put
the needle in my arm and put the plunger in and he missed," she says. "He
missed
the vein and my whole arm went numb."
The actress went on to endure severe drug addiction, which cost her role on "One Day at a Time," divorce and an eventual felony cocaine
possession
charge in 2008. Phillip's half-sister Chynna Phillips, who was the front-woman for the band
Wilson-Phillips, said she was shocked when Mackenzie told her the news. In an interview with Us magazine, she says "somebody could have dropped a piano on my head and I
probably
wouldn't have felt it. But I knew it was true. I mean, who in their right mind would make such a claim if it wasn't true?"
Upon hearing the news, she went into "a deep sadness and depression for about 10 days. A part of me died when I found out. "After long nights of heroin use, she's claiming that she once woke up and
that my father was on top of her having sex with her," Chynna told Us Weekly. "Was he actually raping her? I don't know. Do I believe that they
had an incestuous relationship and that it went on for 10 years? Yes."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,555662,00.html?test=faces
Those who arrested Roman Polanski have ignored his victim
The most
important person in the story of Roman Polanski's arrest in ....
Switzerland....
at the weekend is Samantha Gailey, a middle-aged bookkeeper living
quietly with her family in ....
Hawaii....
. In 1977, as a
13-year-old in ....
Hollywood....
, Gailey was given
champagne and drugs by the director, who then had sex with her.
....
Polanski, who
was then aged 44, pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor, spent 42 days in
prison in Chino, California, and was due to be sentenced to time served when it
became clear that the deal his lawyers had negotiated with the prosecution was
not to be honoured – and he would have had to spend much more time in jail than
had been agreed. He fled the ....United States.... in 1978 and has never
returned.
....
Seven years ago,
after Polanski had won an Oscar for his film The
Pianist, the case came once again under scrutiny in the ....
US....
. Gailey was tracked down
to her home in ....
Hawaii....
where she had settled
with her husband and three children. In a television interview, she did not
exonerate Polanski for the way in which he had taken advantage of her –
"what he did to me was wrong" – but she did say that she had felt
more damaged by the media's subsequent handling of her case than by what had
happened to her at the time.
....
"What
happened that night, it's hard to believe," she said at the time,
"but it paled in comparison to what happened in the next year of my life …
He did something really gross to me but it was the media that ruined my
life." As to what punishment she felt Polanski should now suffer, she
said: "He made a terrible mistake but he's paid for it."
....
Gailey, who
waived her anonymity when she gave the interview, has made similar comments
whenever the case has been discussed. Last year she repeated her comments when
she attended the ....
New York....
premiere of the
documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.
She was and remains the victim in this case; and no amount of mentions of the
fact that "it was the 70s" and people did things differently then can
excuse the fact that a man three times her age had sex with a 13-year-old when
she was under the influence of drink and drugs.
....
But, as Gailey
has said herself, Polanksi has been punished. He lost what was, at the time, a
glittering career in ....
Hollywood....
. He has been publicly
humiliated. His name is associated by many people as much with that sex offence
as with all his cinematic achievements, from Rosemary's Baby and ..
Chinatown..
to Tess and The Pianist.
He has also suffered separately in ways that few people who stand in judgment
of him can understand, in that his then wife, Sharon Tate
– who was eight months pregnant with their child – was murdered in vile
circumstances by the Charles Manson gang in 1968.
....
What will be
served by Polanski being extradited to the ....US.... to stand trial? Gailey
will have her privacy invaded once more as the details of the case, already
posted in prurient detail around the world, receive more coverage. The case
itself is already mired in confusion as a result of allegations of judicial
misconduct at the original trial and is unlikely to have a swift conclusion.
Some lawyers will benefit, but who else?
....
Of course there
are many cases of offenders who have evaded the courts for years and who should
still be forced to face trial, even if they are old and the decades have
passed. War criminals (whether Nazis, or torturers from ..Latin America..), predatory sex
offenders and murderers should always have to live in fear of the tap on the
shoulder and answer to their crimes. There are countless occasions when the
extradition laws can and should be used.
....
But extradition
should be employed when the case merits it. We are already familiar with the
attempts made by the ....
US....
authorities to extradite
the British computer hacker Gary McKinnon for the victimless offence of
embarrassing the ....
US....
military's computer
system. Compassion should have come into play there too, both from the ....
US....
authorities and ....
Britain....
's home secretaries. As
for the suggestion that the Swiss authorities have a reputation for punctilious
attention to legal niceties, it has not stopped them in the past from
protecting the private bank accounts of many a dictator or financial criminal.
....
The real victim
in this case has called for compassion. But compassion is unfashionable at the
moment, so the chances of her voice prevailing may not be great. The desire to
exact punishment, regardless of how the actual victim is affected by it, and to
justify that punishment with some grandstanding rhetoric, is the fashion of the
moment. Child sex, like the ..Middle East.., is a subject where the
normal conventions of debate degenerate very swiftly into name-calling and deliberate
misinterpretation. There is no reason to believe that this case will be any
different. But the victim still has a right to be heard, even if what she says
does not satisfy those seeking vengeance.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/28/roman-polanski-arrested-ignores-victim
............
LET’S
GET SOME OPINOINS? IS IT EVER TOO LATE
TO UNCOVER THIS TYPE OF ABUSE? IS IT
EVER TOO LATE FOR PUNISHMENT? If you
know me, you already know my answer. ....