A Very Brady Druggie? Maureen McCormick Spills

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A Very Brady Druggie? Maureen McCormick Spills

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Mon Oct 13, 8:18 AM ET

Growing up Brady wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

Erstwhile Marcia Brady Maureen McCormick is telling all—and we mean

all—about her formative years both on and off TV, revealing new

details about her depression, drug addiction, unwanted pregnancy and

what can only be described as an exhaustive history of suitors in her

new memoir, Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My

True Voice.

In addition to discussing an unusual string of relationships with

Steve , and her TV bro Barry , the

actress and sometime country singer also reveals that she once traded

sex for drugs and engaged in full-on binges at the Playboy Mansion

and at the home of Sammy Jr.

Marcia, Marcia, oh, Marcia.

" As a teenager, I had no idea that few people are everything they

present to the outside world, " McCormick, now 52, 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.' "

McCormick was 14 years old when the family sitcom began its four-year

run in 1969 and apparently didn't have much personal experience to

draw on for the character. In the book, due out tomorrow, the actress

says she came to the feel-good show from an abusive family, with a

father who abused and cheated on her mother.

When the show ended, McCormick says she turned to drugs, taking

cocaine and Quaaludes among other illicit substances, a habit which

failed to help her secure additional employment.

In the memoir, the actress also details a blown interview she had

with Spielberg, blaming the ill-fated meeting on her being

high at the time.

What followed throughout the '80s was a battle with addiction and

depression, including interventions and rehab stints galore along

with various medications and therapies.

Despite her tumultuous road since then, McCormick seemingly has no

regrets about her Brady gig and subsequent permanent place in pop

culture.

" 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. "

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