Mackenzie Phillips

“ONE DAY AT A TIME” IS COMING BACK …AGAIN?

An updated version of the popular 70’s sitcom One Day at a Time just MIGHT be coming back as Another day at a Time. The series was considered groundbreaking for the era – featuring a single working mom with two daughters, covering topics like divorce and premarital sex. Netflix retooled the series in 2017, keeping the title, but not much else – it only lasted a few seasons. (Costars Bonnie Franklin and Pat Harrington have passed on.) This time the plan is to bring back “sisters” Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli as senior citizens who move in together when their husbands pass away and kids move out. Hmmm… now it reminds us of The Golden Girls …

Photo: Mackenzie Phillips, Bonnie Franklin, Pat Harrington, Valerie Bertinelli

MACKENZIE PHILLIPS IS DOING SOMETHING WITH HER LIFE

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Mackenzie Phillips seems to be doing all right! The One Day at a Time star turned up at a drug rehabilitation event for performers and she looks happy and healthy. Mackenzie, 55, grew up in a world of rich hippies, drugs, and incest – her father was singer John Phillips. She was a star at 13, thanks to American Graffiti. After a lifetime battle with substance abuse, she now works at the Pasadena Recovery Center as a drug counselor. She still acts – and not long ago guest starred on Hot in Cleveland with her old pal Valerie Bertinelli. (Her son Shane is now a 28 year old musician.)

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MACKENZIE PHILLIPS’ FATHER JOHN PHILLIPS WAS WORSE THAN RYAN O’NEAL

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Ryan O’Neal can relax – John Phillips of the ironically named group “The Mamas and the Papas” has turned out to be an even WORSE Hollywood father than Ryan. “One Day at a Time” star Mackenzie Phillips has a new book “High on Arrival” and she admits that her musician father John, who was addicted to drugs and alcohol, introduced her to both heroin and incest. She tells in horrific detail about her childhood of drugs and her ten year incestuous affair with her father and the resulting abortion he paid for. John’s other daughter Chynna doesn’t doubt Mackenzie’s story. His ex-wife Michelle Phillips insists that Mackenzie is “mentally ill” but she’s probably embarrassed because she MARRIED the monster. We were always resentful that John Phillips got a liver transplant in 1992 when surely there were more deserving sick people who needed a liver. Phillips was witnessed drinking not long after his surgery.

THE TRAGIC ARREST OF MACKENZIE PHILLIPS

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We can’t help feeling bad for Mackenzie Phillips. With druggy John Phillips for a father, she almost never had a chance. The One Day at a Time star has been in and out of rehabs and arrested several times. She cleaned up again around ten years ago and did some TV work and even made appearances as a motivational speaker. This morning a flight attendant called and told us that Mackenzie was arrested by security at the American Airlines terminal because heroin was found taped to her body. This photo was taken a few months ago at “A Mothers Day Salute to TV Moms.” It’s just sad.