A variation of “My addict would never do THAT!”: the case of father John and daughter Mackenzie Phillips
Mini-myth of the month:
“He was incapable, no matter how drunk or drugged he was, of having such a relationship with his own child.”
So said John Phillips’ third wife, Genevieve Waite, in response to the claim by stepdaughter Mackenzie Phillips that John raped her when she was 19 and carried on an incestuous affair with her for much of the next 10 years. Sorry Ms. Waite, but addicts are capable of anything. That includes things that make the rest of us recoil.
She also said, “John was a good man who had the disease of alcoholism and drug addiction.” You’d think, then, that she’d know better. We need to remember one thing when dealing with practicing addicts: we cannot predict how destructive their behaviors might become, when and in what sick form.