Tragic Things About Mackenzie Phillips

Mackenzie Phillips may have been born into rockstar royalty, but her life has been far from charmed. She found fame at a young age, but that couldn t stave off the darkness that awaited her. This is her tragic reallife story. Mackenzie Phillips grew up in the late 60s in the household of one of pop music s biggest stars, so it s safe to say that she didn t exactly have a conventional childhood. Her father was John Phillips of The Mamas the Papas, who was notorious for his rock star excess, which included plenty of drug use. Furthermore, he wasn t the kind of parent who bothered to hide his hardpartying antics from his children. When Mackenzie was 10, her dad taught her the finer points of rolling a joint. By 11, she d already experimented with cocaine, her misguided childhood mind believing that drug use was a rite of passage that was just part of growing up. There were also other factors at play. As she told Oprah Winfrey on an episode of Where Are They Now ,