Chynna Phillips has revealed the horrific sexual assault she suffered as a teenager – claiming she was raped by a man who then ‘drugged’ her and ‘held her hostage’ for days.
The former musician, 56, broke down in tears as she spoke about the incident in a recently resurfaced video which was originally shared to her faith-based YouTube channel back in 2020, as well as the devastating “stain” it left on her life.
In it, the born-again Christian – who has been extremely open about her past struggles with substance abuse – claimed the alleged abuse took place on her 18th birthday.
The mother-of-three explained that she started the night off partying with her closest friends in Los Angeles – but what she thought would be a fun party ultimately ended in destruction after she split up to try and buy something cocaine. and was ‘raped’ by the drug dealer.
Chynna Phillips has revealed the horrific sexual assault she suffered as a teenager – claiming she was raped by a man who then ‘drugged’ her and ‘held her hostage’ for days
The former musician, 56, broke down in tears as she spoke about the incident in a recently resurfaced video originally shared to her faith-based YouTube channel back in 2020
In it, the born-again Christian (seen with her mother in 1987 aged 19) claimed the alleged abuse took place on her 18th birthday after she visited a male friend to try and buy cocaine
Chynna admitted in the video that she drank a huge amount of ‘straight vodka’ during the birthday party before going to a male friend’s house to try and buy drugs.
‘It’s really shameful and embarrassing to admit, but I really wanted to do cocaine that night. I was determined to get my hands on some cocaine,’ she told her viewers.
The star did not share the man’s real name for privacy reasons, but used the fake moniker Doug throughout the video.
When she arrived at Doug’s house, she explained, he told her she ‘didn’t look good and needed to lie down’.
Chynna said she agreed she was ‘not feeling well’ and ‘passed out’ in his bed – but woke up some time later to Doug on top of her.
“All of a sudden the door opened and Doug walked in. I opened my eyes and all I could see was him taking off his belt and pulling his pants down,” she continued.
‘I was confused, I didn’t know what was happening and I couldn’t speak. I was so drunk I couldn’t speak.
‘Doug continued to rape me and I couldn’t get a word out. I kept saying in my mind, “Chynna, tell him to get away from you,” but nothing came out of my mouth.
She said she passed out at the man, who she referred to as Doug’s home, but woke up to him ‘taking off his belt and pulling down his trousers’. She shared: ‘Doug continued to rape me’
Chynna has previously revealed that she turned to drugs and alcohol as a teenager to ‘bandage her emotions’ after being ‘abandoned’ by her abusive father John Phillips (seen in 1991)
‘So I just waited for it to be over. Then he pulled his pants back up and put the blankets back over me and I just passed out again.’
Chynna said that when she woke up the next morning, Doug brought her breakfast and that she now believes he put drugs in the meal.
“I felt numb… I just felt really out of it all day,” she explained. “I think Doug had drugged me.”
She said she spent the whole weekend at his house and was ‘out of it’ the whole time.
‘I felt like I had been held hostage there all weekend. I don’t even know how I got home,’ she recalled.
‘I just remember putting on my pajamas (after I got home), getting under the covers in my bedroom and crying and crying and crying.’
Chynna said she didn’t talk to anyone about what had happened because at the time, phe felt ‘stupid, stupid and foolish’ for allowing himself to be in that situation – but looking back now, she knows she was ‘taken advantage of’.
She described the incident as a ‘blemish’ and ‘stain’ on her life and admitted she was still struggling to let go of what had happened.
‘We are seen without blemish in God’s eyes, but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel tainted sometimes, you know?’ she said as she began to break down in tears.
‘I definitely still feel tainted in many ways. The things that God has taken away from us, it’s like we want to carry them around for some reason.
‘But I don’t want to carry this around anymore. It’s gone, it’s forgotten. I just try to remind myself of that.
‘I forgive myself today. God has already forgiven me, but I forgive myself.’
‘My relationship – or lack thereof – with my father really affected me as a child. I had a lot of trouble leaving,’ she previously said. She is seen as a child with her mother
Chynna got sober at the age of 19. She married actor Billy Baldwin in 1995 and together they welcomed three children. She and Billy meet in 2004
Chynna, who is the daughter of Mamas & the Papas band members John and Michelle Phillips, has previously revealed that she turned to drugs and alcohol as a teenager to ‘bandage her emotions’ after being ‘abandoned’ by her abusive father at a young age.
‘My relationship – or lack thereof – with my father really affected 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 shared. TV Guide in 2017.
‘At the time, everyone kept me from the big secret: that my father had this drug addiction.
‘I felt so hurt and scarred inside that I ended up turning to drugs and alcohol as a teenager to bandage my feelings. I didn’t know how to cope and it was just me trying to cope’.
Chynna got sober at the age of 19. She married actor Billy Baldwin in 1995 and together they welcomed three children.
In 2022, the star also spoke in detail about how her father’s ‘horrible, horrible addiction to drugs and alcohol’ marred her childhood in a YouTube video.
She said her father was ‘obviously very troubled and tortured’ and ‘did some things’ and she ‘knows he’s not proud of’.
Chynna’s half-sister Mackenzie, who is the daughter of John and his first wife, Susan Adams, claimed in her 2009 memoir, High On Arrival, that her father had raped her when she was just 19 years old – before she began an incestuous relationship. that lasted almost 10 years.
“My relationship with my dad was so complicated and so tragic, I just wish things could have been a lot different, but they weren’t,” Chynna said.
‘My father was an incredible person, he was a really, really special person, (but) he was obviously very worried and tortured.
‘He had a terrible, terrible addiction to drugs and alcohol and did some things that I’m not proud of and I know he’s not proud of to say the least.
‘But I have to tell you that he had a very special place in my heart.’