Mackenzie Phillips(I)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Mackenzie Phillips was known for her role in the 1973 hit movie
American Graffiti (1973). Two
years later, she got the role that changed her life in the 1975 sitcom
One Day at a Time (1975).
The show was an instant success, and everything was going well until
the third season was launched, when she was arrested for cocaine
possession and lied about the incident on her uncredited appearance on
Dinah and Her New Best Friends (1976).
During the run of the 1979-1980 season, Mackenzie started to fall off
the deep end. The producers didn't know what was wrong; she started
getting tired and showing up late for rehearsals. On the set she was
incoherent and the producers gave her a six-week leave of absence. In
1980, she was fired from the series, went to rehab, then returned in
the fall of 1981. Sadly, in 1983, she fell asleep during a rehearsal.
Producer Patricia Fass Palmer told
her that she had to take another drug test, but she refused and left.
She has since recovered and returned to acting.
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