Chynna Phillips Says She Was ‘Numb’ After Dad Made ‘Earth-Shattering’ Confession

It seems that Chynna Phillips ’ 1995 wedding to actor Billy Baldwin was a bittersweet occasion thanks to her dad, the late Mamas & the Papas musician, John Phillips .

The former Wilson Phillips band member recently shared on her YouTube channel that her dad “blindsided” her with a “really intense” conversation the night before he was set to walk her down the aisle.

“We talked about stuff that was pretty earth-shattering and a lot had come to the surface, and my father was having a ton of feelings and, of course, that made me have a ton of feelings, and I remember I was up all night just weeping, and numb as well,” Chynna recalled. “I would weep and then I would go stoic again… and it was because my father had just revealed some really big information to me, and I just felt blindsided by it.”

Chynna continued by saying that she doesn’t believe her dad had malicious intentions, but felt “shame and guilt” because he was going to be “standing in a church” with such a “terrifying and disturbing” secret.

“I think he felt like he needed to come clean before he walked me down the aisle for his own conscience,” Chynna said. “I feel like he felt that he needed to do that, just so that it was genuine. I really truly chose to have him walk me down the aisle in spite of the information he was giving me.”

Although Chynna never specifies what her dad said to her when he confessed this “family secret” to her, she has publicly supported her half sister Mackenzie Phillips , who wrote in her 2009 memoir “ High on Arrival ” that she and their dad had an on-and-off sexual relationship for 10 years.

Mackenzie read a passage from her memoir to Oprah Winfrey the year it was released which said that their sexual relationship began when he