Not long before her fiftieth birthday, Mackenzie Phillips walked into Los Angeles International Airport.
She was on her way to a reunion for One Day at a Time, the hugely popular 70s sitcom on which she once
starred as the lovable rebel Julie Cooper. Within minutes of entering the security checkpoint, Mackenzie
was in handcuffs, arrested for possession of cocaine and heroin.

Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Lear jets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies
with her father's friends at eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and
heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas,
presided, often in absentia, as a spellbinding, visionary phantom.

When Mackenzie was a teenager, Hollywood and the world took notice of the charming, talented, precocious
child actor after her star-making turn in American Graffiti. As a young woman she joined the nonstop party
in the hedonistic pleasure dome her father created for himself and his fellow revelers, and a rapt TV
audience watched as Julie Cooper wasted away before their eyes. By the time Mackenzie discovered how deep
and dark her father's trip was going, it was too late. And as an adult, she has paid dearly for a lifetime
of excess, working tirelessly to reconcile a wonderful, terrible past in which she succumbed to the power
of addiction and the pull of her magnetic father.

As her astounding, outrageous, and often tender life story unfolds, the actor-musician-mother shares her
lifelong battle with personal demons and near-fatal addictions. She overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles
again and again and journeys toward redemption and peace. By exposing the shadows and secrets of the past to
the light of day, the star who turned up High on Arrival has finally come back down to earth . to stay.

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