Bijou Phillips, the 43-year-old daughter of The Mamas & The Papas frontman John Phillips, is no stranger to the tragedies of life – a fact that was made all the more painfully clear this week when she broke down in tears as her husband, Danny Masterson was found guilty of rape in an LA courtroom.
The brutal outpouring of emotion came at the end of an eight-day trial – however it also marked the latest in a very long line of bitter storms that the former socialite has had to weather over the years.
And, tragically, it seems that scandal runs very much in the family.
Bijou and her famous sisters, One Day At A Time star Mackenzie (born 1959) and Wilson And Phillips singer Chynna (born 1968), have all had to deal with a great deal of controversy over the years.
One of the most shocking was when Mackenzie revealed she and their father, John, had a incestuous sexual relationship for 10 years from when she was 19.
All three siblings have also battled drug addiction. Two of them ended up in rehab to treat their narcotics abuse, while Chynna checked into a facility to treat her ‘distressing’ anxiety.
Bijou Phillips’ husband Danny Masterson was found guilty of rape in an LA court. The couple is pictured on Tuesday
She and her famous sisters, One Day At A Time star Mackenzie (born 1959) and Wilson And Phillips singer Chynna (born 1968), have all had their storms to weather
Mama Cass, John Phillips, Denny Doherty, and Michelle Phillips of the rock and roll band The Mamas & The Papas in 1996
Now Bijou, who was in foster care for years, faces a new challenge in her life: the reality of raising her child alone after husband Danny Masterson, 47, was found guilty of rape in an LA court.
The couple met at a celebrity poker tournament in 2004.
She broke down in tears as the That 70s Show star was convicted of raping two women on Wednesday. He was immediately denied bail and led away in handcuffs.
Bijou and her brother-in-law, Billy Baldwin, who is married to her half-sister, Chynna, were there to support the Scientologist.
As he faces 30 years in prison, FEMAIL lays bare the horrifying histories of Danny’s wife Bijou and her sisters.
Bijou Phillips: Went into foster care from three before being emancipated from her parents aged 14
Bijou, who has been married to Danny since 2011 and shares daughter Fianna Francis with him, is a model, actress, socialite and singer.
Her mother was John’s third wife, South African actress and singer Genevieve Waite, but Bijou legally emancipated herself from her drug-addicted parents when she was just 14, The Guardian reported.
It came after years of being in foster care from the age of about three ‘because her parents were unfit’ to look after her.
‘They spent years and years fighting for custody, so I bounced around a lot,’ Bijou wrote in a candid Instagram post in 2018.
Chynna Phillips, Bijou Phillips and Mackenzie Phillips in 2022
John with his daughter while in drug rehab at Fair Oaks Hospital in New Jersey on December 1, 1980
Bijou legally emancipated herself from her drug-addicted parents when she was just 14 after years of being in foster care. She’s pictured here with foster father Derry and foster sister Rita
She continued: ‘When I was a kid separated from my parents, I remember my mother coming and wanting to take me and just wanting to go with her so much and screaming and crying and griping the door, I was dragged inside, it took two adults and the door closed.
‘I didn’t see her again for months. It’s a pain I still feel and I look at my baby and can’t imagine that happening to us.’
However Bijou, now 43 and the youngest of John’s children (she was born in 1980), has happy memories from her time in foster care.
‘My foster parents were so great… I’m still really close with my foster family and love them so much,’ she said.
She added: ‘I’m so lucky I had such loving and safe foster parents and such a wonderful place and house to live. A big reason why I know how to mother and parent is because of them.’
After her emancipation, the then 14-year-old left school and got her own apartment right near Fifth Avenue that was looked after by a housekeeper.
It was here that her ‘wild child’ party lifestyle really took off where she would take coke, ecstasy and heroin, according to The Observer.
Bijou is pictured here with her sister, Mackenzie, in an undated Instagram photo
Bijou, who has been married to Danny since 2011 and shares daughter Fianna Francis with him, is a model, actress, socialite and singer
Bijou with her daughter Fianna pictured in 2015 in Los Angeles
Also in 2017, it was revealed Bijou had undergone a lifesaving kidney transplant after secretly battling a rare condition for years. Her husband spoke out about her health battle
At that point, she was already a rising star in her own right having kickstarted her career as a model aged 13 and had appeared in a controversial Calvin Klein underwear ad.
‘I was 14 years old. What was I supposed to do?’ a then 21-year-old Bijou told the publication in 2002.
‘If you were 14 years old and able to live on your own in an apartment in New York City, and you got invited to all these clubs, and you got a bank account and you had a car service you could call so that you could go wherever you wanted… what would happen?’
Eventually her father encouraged her to get sober, sending her to rehab at 17 following the heroin overdose death of her friend, socialite Davide Sorrenti, aged 20.
In 2017, she was accused by her Bully co-star Daniel Franzese, who most famously played Damian in Lindsay Lohan-led movie Mean Girls, of ‘homophobia, body shaming and physical abuse’ while filming the 2001 movie.
Bijou was often seen with the Hilton sisters. Here she is pictured in 2005 with the siblings at Nicky’s 22nd birthday
In 2017, she was accused by her Bully co-star Daniel Franzese (far right) of ‘homophobia, body shaming and physical abuse’
Her father checked her into rehab aged 17 when her friend died from a heroin overdose. She’s pictured in 1997
In a lengthy Facebook post, Daniel claimed Bijou had taunted him for his sexuality, twisted his nipple and kicked him in the back of the head on the set of Bully.
Phillips addressed Frazese’s claim in a statement to TMZ: ‘I want to write to address what Daniel has said. I don’t remember that time well, those years are a blur. I was a teenager and reckless in my behavior. I know Daniel to be a trustworthy and honest person, and to find out through social media that I was not the friend I thought I was to him made me so sad.
‘I am so mortified by this behavior and have contacted Daniel and apologized to him privately. I am not and never have been homophobic. I have nothing but love for the LGBTQ community and Daniel.’
Also in 2017, it was revealed Bijou had undergone a lifesaving kidney transplant after secretly battling a rare condition for years.
After the star’s successful surgery, husband Danny took to Instagram to talk about his wife’s journey and to thank the ‘angel’ who gave his wife ‘the gift of an encore.’
He posted a black-and-white picture of Bijou and her donor holding hands across hospital beds, coupled with a caption that read, ‘100% successful transplant. Now the real work begins.’
His caption read: ‘My lady has been slowing dying for the past 7 years of an incurable kidney disease.’
Mackenzie Phillips: Had 10-year incestuous sexual affair with her dad
The daughter of The Mamas & The Papas frontman and his first wife, heiress Susan Stuart Adams, made the bombshell revelation in her memoir, High On Arrival, that she and father John had a 10-year incestuous relationship.
Mackenzie said her dad first raped her when she was 19 – on the night before her wedding.
She also recalled how she became pregnant – but had an abortion after not being sure whether the baby belonged to her father or her then husband, Jeff Sessler, who had no idea about the secret affair.
But as her life began to spiral out of control on drugs, the sex became consensual for almost a decade.
Mackenzie made the bombshell revelation in her memoir, High On Arrival, that she and father John had a 10-year incestuous relationship. The pair pictured circa 1981
John Phillips (left) pictured with wife Genevieve Waite and daughter Mackenzie Phillips
Mackenzie also accused her father of introducing her to heroin when she was still a teenager, missing the vein when he tried to inject her and turning her arm numb.
At the time of her book’s release in 2009, the troubled actress, then 49, spoke for the first time about her incest ordeal in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
She said in her book that her father turned up on the eve of her 1979 wedding to Jeff – a member of the Rolling Stones entourage – determined to stop the marriage.
‘I had tons of pills, and dad had tons of everything, too. Eventually I passed out on dad’s bed,’ she wrote.
‘My father was not a man with boundaries. He was full of love, and he was sick with drugs.
‘I woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father. Had this happened before? I didn’t know. All I can say is it was the first time I was aware of it.
‘For a moment I was in my body, in that horrible truth, and then I slid back into a blackout.’
Mackenzie pictured with her mother, Susan Stuart Adam, who was John’s first wife
Mackenzie’s constant drug use got her fired in the early 1980s from the U.S. sitcom One Day At A Time. Pictured with her castmates Pat Harrington Jr, Valerie Bertinelli and Bonnie Franklin
Mackenzie also told Oprah her father taught her to roll joints at 10 and she tried cocaine for the first time at eleven.
From being raped as a teenager by her father while she was in a drug-addled stupor, she said the relationship became consensual and lasted almost a decade.
‘We’re touring, and I begin waking up after drug-fueled events with my pants around my ankles and my father sleeping beside me,’ she said.
‘Again, [I thought]: “Don’t think. Don’t look. Just keep going.” And this happened over time. It didn’t happen every day. It didn’t happen every week, but it certainly happened.’
She finally ended the relationship after she became pregnant.
Mackenzie’s constant drug use got her fired in the early 1980s from the U.S. sitcom One Day At A Time.
In 2008, she pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine after she was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport earlier that year.
Airport police alleged she was ‘carrying what appeared to be heroin and cocaine in baggies and balloons,’ People reported.
Last year she came out as bisexual, telling the Behind The Velvet Rope Podcast : ‘Throughout my life have lived on both sides of the curtain’
Mackenzie considers her 35-year-old son, Shane (who she shares with ex Fontayne), to be ‘the love of my life.’ The pair are pictured in 1995
As part of her plea, Mackenzie agreed to complete an 18-month drug treatment program.
The now 63-year-old has been married three times – to manager Jeff, guitarist Shane Fontayne and The Who’s conductor Keith Levenson.
But Mackenzie considers her 35-year-old son Shane (who she shares with ex Fontayne) to be ‘the love of my life’ and they frequently bond by ‘playing extremely complicated board games all weekend long.’
Last year she came out as bisexual, telling the Behind The Velvet Rope Podcast: ‘Throughout my life have lived on both sides of the curtain.
‘I’ve had boyfriends, I’ve had girlfriends, you know, throughout my life. I am neither one nor the other.’
Drawing from her own experiences with addiction, Mackenzie became a substance use counselor at LA treatment facility Breathe Life Healing Centers in 2016.
She’s currently listed as the vice president of referral relations on the clinic’s website.
Chynna Phillips: Struggled with drug and alcohol addiction as a teen before going to rehab for ‘distressing’ anxiety
Like her sisters, Chynna had her own struggles with addiction as a teenager.
The now 55-year-old was the result of a union between John and his second wife, Michelle, who was known as Holly Michelle Gilliam before her marriage and also a member of The Mamas & The Papas.
During her time on Dancing With The Stars in 2017, Chynna, a born-again Christian, revealed she turned to drugs and alcohol to ‘put a bandage on my emotions.’
Chynna and mom Michelle Phillips are pictured in 1987. Her mother was John’s second wife
Her mom was a member of The Mamas & The Papas. They’re pictured in 1987
She said her lack of a relationship with her dad ‘really impacted’ her as a child
‘My relationship – or lack thereof – with my dad, really impacted me as a child. I had a lot of abandonment issues, and I just didn’t understand why I couldn’t have a father around like some of my other friends did,’ she told TV Guide.
‘At the time, everyone was keeping me from the big secret: that my dad had this drug addiction. I felt so hurt and scarred on the inside, that I ended up turning to drugs and alcohol as a teenager, to put a bandage on my emotions. I didn’t know how to deal and that was just me trying to cope.’
After dropping out of school, she formed pop group Wilson Phillips with friends Carnie and Wendy Wilson in the 1980s. They had some success in the 1990s.
Chynna said she eventually got her life together before meeting husband Billy Baldwin.
‘It was perfect timing to have met such an amazing man. I met him when I was 23 and have been with the guy for 20 years,’ she said in 2011. The couple married in 1995.
Later she stepped away from music to raise their three children – Jameson, Brooke and Vance, but soon life became too much for her and she checked into rehab to treat her anxiety in 2010.
Chynna said she struggled with addiction as a teenager after being abandoned by her father. She’s pictured here with her husband, Billy Baldwin, in 2004
After dropping out of school, she formed pop group Wilson Phillips (pictured together in 2018) with friends Carnie (center) and Wendy (right) Wilson in the 1980s
Later she stepped away from music to raise their three children – Jameson, Brooke and Vance, but she checked into rehab to treat her anxiety. Michelle described her anxiety as ‘distressing’
At the time, her mother, Michelle, described her anxiety as ‘distressing.’
A source told People in 2010 ‘a combination of things’ sparked her two-week rehab stint, with Michelle adding it had been ‘a very tough year’ for Chynna.
Months before, sister Mackenzie’s memoir was released, making her years-long sexual relationship with her father, John, public.
The day before the book’s release, Chynna had dropped her album, One Reason, and instead of talking about her music, she was asked about the sins of her father.
‘That really overwhelmed her,’ a friend told People.
During that same period, she headed on tour – the first time as a mother – something Michelle said was ‘very trying for her.’
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