Maureen McCormick: Marcia Brady’s Troubled Past

Maureen McCormick is best known for her portrayal of Marcia Brady on the hit TV show The Brady Bunch and is now revealing that growing up Brady included drugs, depression, an unwanted pregnancy and so much more.

McCormick, now 52, began her run as Marcia in 1969 at age 14 and had little personal experience with the role since she came from a family where her father abused and cheated on her mother.

“As a teenager, I had no idea that few people are everything they present to the outside world,” McCormick writes in the book, excerpts of which were released today. “Yet there I was, hiding the reality of my life behind the unreal perfection of Marcia Brady.

No one suspected the fear that gnawed at me even as I lent my voice to the chorus of Bradys singing ‘It’s a Sunshine Day.’ “

After her four years on the show, McCormick turned to drugs such as cocaine and Quaaludes among others and found it hard to find a job.

In the years following the show, she also had a number of relationships with men in Hollywood including Steve Martin, Michael Jackson and her TV bro Barry Williams and even reveals that she once traded sex for drugs.

Even after everything she has been through, McCormick is at peace with her past.

“I’ll always be struck by how much a part of people’s lives Marcia is and always will be,” she writes.

“But now I’m not bothered by the connection. It took most of my life, countless mistakes and decades of pain and suffering to reach this point of equanimity and acceptance.”

The book, Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice, is out tomorrow.

Maybe we can expect a new movie to emerge….A Very Brady Drug Addiction and Sexcapade.