Best of 2009

MACKENZIE'S INCEST SECRET

Mackenzie Phillips dropped a bombshell this September in her tell-all book High on Arrival: that her father, musician John Phillips, raped her at 19 and engaged with her in a long-term incestuous relationship. "My father was not a man with boundaries," she wrote. "He was full of love, and he was sick with drugs." While some of his surviving family met her dark accusations with doubt, Phillips took her story to Oprah and the Today show, and had the support of half-sister Chynna. And people were listening: Calls to the National Sexual Assault Hotline spiked 26 percent following her revelation.