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High On Arrival ReviewNot since Christina Crawford wrote her tell-all story "Mommie Dearest" about the physical and mental abuse she endured at the hands of her famous mother Joan Crawford, has a book about famous people rocked Hollywood. Mackenzie Phillips has written an honest and brave account of her life with Mamas and the Papas frontman John Phillips who was her father. In the book Mackenzie discusses candidly her drug problem that has plagued her most of her life and how her father introduced her to cocaine when she was ten. She eventually started smoking pot and drinking heavily and ultimately became very promiscuous often having sex with many of her dad's friends including Mick Jagger. Mackenzie also recounts her eventual childhood stardom on the CBS sitcom "One Day At A Time" and how her drug use led her to being fired from the show as she would often show up stoned to film scenes. The most harrowing part of the book is her allegation of her father raping her one night while she was passed out cold from doing too many drugs. She reveals waking up after being "out" only to find her father having sex with her. Her drug problem became so severe that she actually allowed her father to have sex with her for over ten years until she found herself pregnant. She didn't know if the father was her fiance or her dad so she had the pregnancy terminated. The greatest part of the book is that she accepts her faults and mistakes herself and doesn't blame anyone for her shortcomings. She was even able to forgive her father for all the harm he inflicted upon her before he died in 2001. Rather than be a book that seeks revenge on someone "High On Arrival" is a book about facing one's past, dealing with their mistakes, and starting over fresh. I have always admired Mackenzie Phillips and I admire her more as her book is a lesson for all of us in understanding why a person starts doing drugs, why they become hooked on it, and how, if not handled properly, one can be destroyed by them. The fact that Mackenzie Phillips is still alive to write such a memoir is testimony in her strength as a human being and she should be applauded.
UPDATE ON FEBRUARY 22, 2011: "High On Arrival" was a huge publication success going to the top of many critic's lists as one of the best books of 2009. However, Mackenzie Phillips received a huge amount of negativity from fans of her father's who felt she was tarnishing his image. Many do not believe what Mackenzie states in her memoirs. Even upon "High On Arrival's" publication in September, 2009 Phillips discovered many in her immediate family, including brothers, sisters, and her former step-mother Michelle Phillips, disowned her. Mackenzie was shocked to realize she was not invited to attend her family's 2009 Thanksgiving dinner.
In the paperback edition of "High On Arrival" Mackenzie devotes a newly-written chapter about the fallout of the book's publication. In interviews promoting the soft-cover book Phillips states she would love to have her family welcome her back, but insists what she wrote was indeed fact and that her family is acting like most families do when dealing with something as controversial as incest: they are in complete denial.High On Arrival Overview

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