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Entertainment | 10/14/2008 10:00 am

Maureen McCormick's Very Un-Brady Story of Sex, Drugs and Depression

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Marcia Brady / Maureen McCormick
Marcia Brady/Maureen McCormick © Getty Images

Marcia, Marcia, oy, Marcia!

She played Marcia Brady on "The Brady Bunch," but Maureen McCormick’s real youth was far from the world of lighthearted conflicts — such as sisterly jealousy — she experienced on television. The darling with the blue eyes, sweet smile and golden locks is all grown-up now and has just released a very un-Brady book, depicting her real-life struggles with drugs, depression, sex and surprise pregnancies.

In McCormick’s tell-all book, Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice, McCormick confesses the real story of the lovely lady’s oldest daughter living a polar-opposite life from the squeaky-clean persona she portrayed from 1969-74 on ABC’s "The Brady Bunch." She admits to trading sex for drugs, partying and binging at the Playboy Mansion. She describes her off-screen romance with TV brother "Greg Brady" — Barry Williams — and strings of dates with Michael Jackson and George Martin. McCormick also said that her drug addictions hampered her acting career and caused her to develop a reputation as an unreliable actress. In her post-Brady years, she even blew an interview with Steven Spielberg because she was high.

"I always had this smile on my face but deep down inside I felt like I was crying and very sad — and hiding a lot of things about my family and about my family’s history," she said in an interview on Amazon.com. 

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This isn’t the first time McCormick reveals a darker side. Last year on "Larry King Live," McCormick went public with her battles with depression, her addictive behavior, the impact of her mother’s death and dealing with a mentally challenged brother, Denny.

After several trips to rehabilitation clinics, interventions and losing weight with the help of the experts on "Celebrity Fit Club," McCormick, now 52, is currently, ironically, living a more Brady-esque, "Leave-It-To-Beaver" lifestyle. She resides in the suburbs of Westlake Village, CA. She’s been married for 13 years to actor Michael Cummings. They have a nine-year-old daughter, Natalie.

The book, published by William Morrow, hits bookstores today.

 

7 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Belinda Joy
Good for you Maureen! Good to see you turned a page on that chapter of your life and moved on to a more stable, secure and loving one. But you dated Michael Jackson and George Martin? Ummm…..what were you thinking? :-)
By Belinda Joy on 10/14/2008 10:37 am
Sandbee (FB) 54
That “brother” Greg must have been busy, weren’t he and his “mom” Florence Henderson supposed to be together too. Next we’ll hear that he was also with Alice the maid.
By Sandbee (FB) 54 on 10/14/2008 12:51 pm
James the Game
Sandbee, hee hee! No, Flo was way prettier than ol’ Alice. I never know what’s truth and fiction, but I’ll just pass this one little item along to you. When I worked at WOOD radio in the mid-1990’s, Maureen came into the studios one morning for a live interview. I didn’t see her, but sports announcer Ray Bentley (who starred at linebacker for the Super Bowl-losing Buffalo Bills teams of the early ’90s) told me he met her in the lobby and claimed she was cold as ice. Said he tried to say ‘hi’ to her, and she just blew him off. That was just his version of events. Who knows?
By James the Game on 10/14/2008 3:26 pm
Sandbee (FB) 54
Shame you didn’t get to meet her, you might have had a better feel for the truth of the matter.
By Sandbee (FB) 54 on 10/15/2008 12:43 am
Don Larsen
The preview described above tells me all I need to know about this book. I’d prefer to keep Maureen in an, albeit wet, dream.
By Don Larsen on 10/14/2008 6:31 pm
Chrome Toe
While I certainly remember Maureen as Marcia I have this bizarre very clear memory of her playing a rape victim in a movie in maybe the 80’s? i remember it because the rape scene was rather graphic and it affected me a LOT. i cried and cried over it. I can actually still see it easily. she was wearing a cowboy hat and the rape scene itself I BELIEVE took place in a motel room. There are a handful of movie scenes that I wish i’d never seen and that’s one of them. I don’t do well with certain types of images. I’m to empathic.
By Chrome Toe on 10/14/2008 10:16 pm
KATHRYN GODDARD
I remember watching The Brady Bunch when visiting America in the early 70s. It is good to hear that whilst she went through troubled times she is happy now and things are good for her.
By KATHRYN GODDARD on 10/17/2008 3:20 am