Mackenzie Phillipsis living her life out loud.
TheOne Day at a Timestar, 62, revealed that she’s bisexual while appearing onBehind the Velvet Rope With David YontefMonday.
When host Yontef crowned Phillips as “a gay icon,” the actress said, “I love that and I also love that I throughout my life have lived on both sides of the curtain.”
“I’ve had boyfriends, I’ve had girlfriends throughout my life. I am neither one nor the other. I love our gay community,” she continued, adding that addiction center Breathe Life Healing Center (where she serves as Director of Referral Relations) is “LGBT-owned and operated.”
She later added, “I love everybody,” before she joked, “Not everybody, almost.”
Phillips hasn’t been afraid to candidly open up about her personal life.
In her first book,High on Arrival– released in 2009 – sherevealedthat she and her father, The Mamas & the Papas singerJohn Phillips, had anincestuous relationshipfor 10 years after he raped her at age 19.
In her second book,Hopeful Healing: Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction–released in 2017 – theOrange Is the New Blackalum wrote openly about the abuse and the years-long struggle to forgive her father, who died in 2001.
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Confessing that she used cocaine while pregnant with her son Shane Barakan, now 35, she added, “Should I apologize to Shane every day for shooting coke while I was pregnant? No. Is that appropriate? Absolutely not. Does he know about it? Yes. So how do I deal with that? I just do better. That’s all anyone can do: just do better.”
She had previously told PEOPLE, “I don’t let my past define me. Even though I experienced my share of trauma and a very public meltdown, I can hold my head high because my recovery is the best thing I’ve ever done, aside from being a mom.”
If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual abuse, text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.
If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, please contact the SAMHSA helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.
source: people.com
