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Maureen McCormick's sizzling new autobiography, Here's The Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice, reveals that she was ill-equipped to play the role of the innocent Brady Bunch hottie, coming from an allegedly abusive household, and later trading sex for drugs after the show ended its four-year run in 1974.According to eonline.com, McCormick, 52, tells all and sundry in her "exhaustive" memoir that her post-Brady Bunch life included depression, unwanted pregnancy, cocaine, Quaaludes and other illegal substances, as well as affairs with Hollywood big shots like Michael Jackson, Steve Martin, and even her television sibling, Barry Williams.
Only 14 when she joined the cast of the famously cheesy cult favorite, McCormick went on to languish in the late '70s and '80s, spending her time engaged in "full-on binges" at the Playboy Mansion and the home of the late Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sounds like instead of telling the kids not to play ball in the house, Mrs. Brady should have told them to not shoot "eight balls" in the house.
The actress and sometime country-music chaunteuse also apparently mentions a blown interview with movie mogul Steven Spielberg, and attributes it to her inability to stay sober. But despite her checkered past, McCormick says she doesn't regret her stint as one of TV's most legendary sisters.
"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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10-14-2008 @ 10:04PM
Barbara said...UNFORTUNATELY THE ONLY ADVICE I CAN GIVE YOU IS THAT YOU ARE TRULY COURAGEOUS ABOUT TELLING YOUR STORY MAYBE IT WILL INSPIRE OTHERS TO GET HELP. I PROBABLY HAVE TO AGREE A LITTLE WITH RON MARKUS, THEN AGAIN THE ONLY ONE THAT WENT THROUGH THIS CRISIS WAS YOU, SO KEEP YOU HEAD UP. NEGATIVE COMMENTS WILL COME AND GO BUT YOU WILL SURVIVE, YOUR TOUGH. BE TRUE TO YOU.
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