Current:Home > ScamsChynna Phillips says dad John 'blindsided' her on eve of her wedding with Billy Baldwin -OceanicInvest
Chynna Phillips says dad John 'blindsided' her on eve of her wedding with Billy Baldwin
View
Date:2025-04-16 20:59:42
Chynna Phillips is opening up about a difficult talk she had with her father.
The actress and singer shared details about her 1995 wedding night with Billy Baldwin in a YouTube video alongside her friend, Dr. Robyn Westbrook, on Valentine's Day. Phillips said her dad, John Phillips, of The Mamas and The Papas fame, "blindsided" her with an "intense" talk.
“We talked about stuff that was pretty earth-shattering. And a lot had come to the surface, and my father was having a ton of feelings. And, of course, that made me have a ton of feelings," Chynna Phillips said on her "California Preachin'" YouTube channel. "I remember I was up all night just weeping and numb as well."
Chynna Phillips said that during the conversation, she would weep and then be stoic but did not specify the details of their father-daughter talk.
Chynna Phillips' half-sister, Mackenzie Phillips, chronicled her incestuous relationship with their father in her 2009 memoir "High on Arrival."
“I remember I didn’t sleep much the night before, and I had a lot of adrenaline running through my system as well, because of information, but at the same time, it was one of the most priceless conversations I’ve ever had with my father, and it was definitely, bar none, the most honest conversation I’d had with my father,” Chynna Phillips recalled.
The Wilson Phillips singer said she thought her father told her the information because "he felt like he needed to unload."
"I think that his conscious conscience was playing a game with him and saying, you know, you're going to be in this holy setting with your daughter, who you barely know, and you're going to be walking her down the aisle and in front of 300 people and giving her away to her husband, and I think he felt guilty," Chynna Phillips said.
The mom of three and Baldwin share three children, daughters Jameson and Brooke and their son, Vance, who has publicly battled cancer.
Billy Baldwin, Chynna Phillips revealtheir teen son was diagnosed with cancer last year
In November, the Phillips sisters opened up about the incestuous relationship on Chynna Phillips' YouTube channel.
"Obviously, he's an amazing songwriter and, you know I loved his laugh, and yet there was this whole other side to dad that was, I mean, kind of, like a monster," Chynna Phillips told Mackenzie Phillips. "He was so dark, and you just didn't know who you were going to get. It was very unpredictable."
"Dad was something else," Mackenzie Phillips responded. "And I get a lot of criticism and a lot of trolling online for having forgiveness in my heart. Forgiveness, because forgiving is for me, not for the other person. And forgiving doesn't mean I cosign or agree with what I'm forgiving him for."
Contributing: Edward Segarra
veryGood! (2267)
Related
- Elon Musk's skyrocketing net worth: He's the first person with over $400 billion
- Gaza has long been a powder keg. Here’s a look at the history of the embattled region
- Denver wants case against Marlon Wayans stemming from luggage dispute dismissed
- Lions' Amon-Ra St. Brown pays off friendly wager he quips was made 'outside the facility'
- Louvre will undergo expansion and restoration project, Macron says
- The US is welcomed in the Indo-Pacific region and should do more, ambassador to Japan says
- Juveniles charged with dousing acid on playground slides that injured 4 children
- School crossing guard fatally struck by truck in New York City
- The Best Stocking Stuffers Under $25
- A Palestinian engineer who returned to Gaza City after fleeing south is killed in an airstrike
Ranking
- Sam Taylor
- Oklahoma attorney general sues to stop US’s first public religious school
- Maui County police find additional remains, raising Lahaina wildfire death toll to 99
- Ohio Woman, 23, Sentenced to 15 Years to Life in Prison For Stabbing Mom Over College Suspension
- Nevada attorney general revives 2020 fake electors case
- Man previously dubbed California’s “Hills Bandit” to serve life in a Nevada prison for other crimes
- French intelligence points to Palestinian rocket, not Israeli airstrike, for Gaza hospital blast
- How Brooklyn Beckham Really Feels About Haters Who Criticize His Cooking Videos
Recommendation
Bodycam footage shows high
Eating red meat more than once a week linked to Type 2 diabetes risk, study finds
Maui County police find additional remains, raising Lahaina wildfire death toll to 99
In Lebanon, thousands are displaced from border towns by clashes, stretching state resources
Moving abroad can be expensive: These 5 countries will 'pay' you to move there
Florida man convicted of murdering wife in dispute over ‘Zombie House Flipping’ appearance
Pink Postpones Additional Concert Dates Amid Battle With Respiratory Infection
Refugee children’s education in Rwanda under threat because of reduced UN funding