Ever since Mackenzie Phillips dropped the bombshell on Oprah Winfrey last week about her decade-long "consensual" sexual relationship with her late father, the world has been asking: Why would anyone consent to having sex with one's dad, and for ten whole years?

Our answer: Despite Mackenzie's choice to use the word "consensual" in describing her relationship with her father, it never really was. Here's why:

1. If the the first sexual encounter with one's partner is a rape, then the subsequent sex with said partner is not consensual. Mackenzie says that the first time she and her father had sex, it was … Read More

As Whitney Houston proved this week in her interview with Oprah Winfrey, not all women have to be taken to live their happy best. When you have this much love from your fans, sometimes we wonder, who actually needs romance?!

Whitney Houston Her comeback stuns us all, as did her candid revelations to Oprah. She said Bobby Brown was emotionally abusive and that she allowed their marriage to hold back her best work. After seven years behind closed doors, Whitney's old-school-meets-what's-cool new album I Look to You is number one on the charts this week—and our fave … Read More

Has you seen the New Moon poster of Robert Pattinson looking seriously beefcaked? (Read this story then click on the link below.) YourTango: Is Twilight Bad For Your Love Life?

Rumors have erupted that Robert's stellar physique in this first Twilight sequel is the result not of working out rigorously, but of roids. He's put on mega-muscle since Twilight and has been filming multiple movies. Just when does he have time to tone up?

In loyal lover fashion, Kristen Stewart is telling the public to back off—Robert is not on steroids. Read More

Whitney Houston's Oprah interview on Monday was a candid, graceful look inside the heart of a woman the Los Angeles Times once referred to as "a national treasure." Celebrity Love: Recalling Whitney Houston's Bruised Romantic Past

Whitney plunged from the heights of success to the depths of an abusive marriage and a co-dependent drug addiction with now ex-husband Bobby Brown. Her new album I Look to You lays the carpet for her first comeback—professionally and personally—in almost a decade. YourTango's Celebrity Love has recapped part one of Oprah's interview with the the … Read More

Whitney Houston's sixth studio album I Look to You is on sale today, released to a mix of reviews calling it everything from disappointing to Barry Manilow's comment that it's the "biggest hit she's had."

No matter what the creative result, the album demonstrates that Whit is finally coping positively with her troubled romantic past. Her marriage to Bobby Brown in 1992 staged her tragic flaw, fetching her to the depths of drug abuse and a long-time fall off the fame radar altogether. In their 2005 reality show Being Bobby Brown (which MSNBC called "disgusting"), they … Read More

Our hearts go out to the family and many friends of DJ AM Adam Goldstein, who was found dead in New York City at age 36 on Friday, August 28, 2009. Celebrity Love: DJ AM's Final Days: Broken-hearted Over A Split

The public knows Adam for his talent as well as his high-profile relationships with stars like Nicole Richie, Mandy Moore and most recently 22-year-old apparel model Hayley Wood, who's been reported to have broken off their eight-month relationship last week.

Richie and Moore appear to be keeping a low profile after news of Adam's … Read More

Adam Goldstein — better known as DJ AM — was found dead last night (Friday, August 28) in his New York City apartment. Police, prompted to enter his apartment after a friend called 911, found him face down, shirtless, and surrounded by prescription drugs and a crack pipe. He was 36.

To those who are familiar with his story, Goldstein's end is both shocking and heartbreaking. Over the years, he'd survived two other near-death experiences (first, at age 24, when the gun he tried to kill himself with jammed; and second, when he, along with Travis Barker, survived a plane crash that … Read More

The world is buzzing about the sex tape exhibiting Hollywood spouses Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart. People.com says Twitter is blazing with comments, and sites promising to post the video (Gawker has an edited version) are full of visitors salivating for the goods. 

This morning the two actors (he's best known as the McSteamy Dr. Mark Sloan on Grey's Anatomy, she was the Noxzema girl in the 1990s) appear to be responding through high-profile entertainment and media lawyer Marty Singer, who claims that despite the T&A and intimacy on display throughout … Read More

I could have just said "I don't know" or deflected the question. I didn't have to say anything. But when my boyfriend's parents asked me over a family dinner the other night what I might want write a book about, I answered honestly: my struggles with depression.

Surprised, I think, neither parent said anything in response, which made me feel nervously awkward. But then another relative chimed in with her own depression story. She said when she started taking anti-depressants, she would sleep all day, so I shared that Lexapro used to make me conk out, too. Then the relative … Read More

While yesterday's highly-rehearsed video of Chris Brown suggests he's heartily sorrowful for his physical attack on Rihanna last February, there is an ulterior method to his remorse.

In the video Chris posted on his website yesterday (posted on Hollywood Life, among other sites), he said that he would have come forward sooner to apologize but his lawyer advised him not to. So just why would a lawyer counsel a superstar client to hold back his regret for almost six months? Indeed there's a big reason: Chris Brown will be formally sentenced … Read More