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Moment #22: Mackenzie Phillips' Shocking Family Secret

Aired: 08/28/2012
Mackenzie Phillips and Oprah Winfrey
Photo: George Burns
About This Episode
Of all the confessions in the Oprah Show vault, TV Guide Magazine picked this as the ultimate shocker. On September 23, 2009, former One Day at a Time star Mackenzie Phillips appeared on The Oprah Show to reveal a family secret she'd kept for years. She told Oprah that she'd carried on a sexual relationship with her father, John Phillips, the founder of the Mamas & the Papas, for approximately 10 years.
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