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By Breeanna Hare
CNN

(CNN) — In an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Wednesday, Mackenzie Phillips said that she was raped by her father while still a teenager.

Mackenzie Phillips described an incestuous relationship
with her father during an interview with Oprah Winfrey.

“I woke up that night from a blackout and found myself having sex with my own father, Phillips read aloud from her book High On Arrivalduring the hour-long interview with Winfrey.

“I came out of that blackout and realized what was happening. … I slid right back into it and woke up the next morning in my own hotel room and not with him,” she continued to read. “Your father is supposed to protect you, not [expletive] you.”

John Phillips died in 2001.

Phillips, now 49, said she was 17 or 18 the first time she can remember having sex with her father. Video Watch Phillips talk about her struggles »

When she confronted him and told him they needed to talk about how he raped her, Phillips said, he responded with confusion.
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CNN’s Peter Hamby and Kristi Keck contributed to this story.

(CNN) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, just back from a secret trip to Argentina unknown to his staff or his wife, admitted Wednesday he has carried on an extramarital affair with a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“I’ve been unfaithful to my wife,” Sanford told a news conference in Columbia, South Carolina. “I developed a relationship with what started as a dear, dear friend from Argentina.”

His voice choking at times, Sanford apologized to his wife and four sons, his staff and supporters, and said he would resign immediately as head of the Republican Governors Association.

The affair began in the last year and was discovered five months ago, Sanford said without elaborating. He added that he and his wife were trying to work through it. Read more…

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