While most Americans spent Thanksgiving with family, Mackenzie Phillips had to find other ways to celebrate the holiday.

Two months after the publication of her memoir, “High on Arrival,” revealed the shocking claim that she had a consensual incestuous relationship with her father, late Mamas and Papas musician John Phillips, the actress said she was excluded from her famous family’s holiday gathering.

“I’ve been uninvited to the family Thanksgiving,” the actress said Wednesday on “Access Hollywood.”

The release of Phillips’ book, and her participation in the various media appearances that followed, is said to have caused a rift within the family.

“I can’t make them come back,” she said. “They have to come back on their own.”

Among those most upset at Phillips is her stepmother, Michelle Phillips, who has previously voiced support for her former husband, saying the incest accusations “should have been made while John was alive.”

“It’s just so strange that she thinks that I should have done it while he was alive,” Phillips said. “If I did, I’m sure she would have said I should have waited until he was dead. There’s never a right time for this family to hear this kind of stuff.”

Another family member who has turned her back on Phillips is half-sister Bijou Phillips.

“I have made attempts [to talk to Bijou]. She just says, ‘I want nothing to do with you,’ ” claimed Phillips.

But the actress says she can still count on half-sister Chynna, who was apparently upset Phillips wasn’t able to be at Thanksgiving with the family.

Despite getting the cold shoulder on turkey day, Phillips said she doesn’t hold hard feelings.

“It’s okay, it’s okay,” she said. “I love Michelle.”

(source)

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