SHE was a golden woman of TV, taking part in a accountable large sister in a success sitcom over 50 years in the past.

At 13, this actress charmed viewers together with her girl-next-door picture and seemingly excellent life.

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However as her fame grew she battled a devastating drug dependancy, tragically traded intercourse for cocaine, and ruined her probabilities of turning into an enormous film star.

In 2008 Maureen McCormick spoke about surviving fame and trauma in her bombshell ebook, Here is The Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Discovering My True Voice.

Within the ebook, The Brady Bunch magnificence additionally revealed husband Michael Cummings saved her with an ultimatum to get clear or he’d depart.

The couple, who’ve been married for almost 40 years, share daughter Natalie, 35 and now dwell a quiet life outdoors Los Angeles.

Nevertheless, Maureen, 68, hasn’t turned her again on the present that she liked, and even reprised her function as Marcia Brady within the 2019 spin-off A Very Brady Renovation.

Susan Olsen, Mike Lookinland, Eve Plumb, Christopher Knight, Maureen and Barry Williams starred because the siblings within the US sitcom from 1969-1974 and reunited for the reboot.

Talking about returning to the function for an additional stint, Maureen just lately advised Individuals: “It is so onerous to do a reboot or a remake of one thing.

“So I really feel very protecting of it in a means. It has such nice recollections for therefore many individuals, however it might simply have to utterly knock my socks off for me to wish to do something with it. I might know in my coronary heart.

“But it surely was such an unimaginable present to be part of, and my finest recollections of the present are the folks, the crew, and their households.”

Maureen was 14 years outdated when The Brady Bunch debuted on ABC, together with her taking part in “Miss Excellent” Marcia – however in actual life she struggled with anxiousness, melancholy and bulimia.

She was born the youngest of 4 to a father who abused and cheated on their mom.

As a teen she discovered her grandmother died with syphilis in a psychological establishment, and that her personal mom had contracted it within the womb – leaving her fearful she additionally had the illness.

She reminisced about her experiences in her ebook, writing: “As a teen, I had no concept that few persons are every part they current to the skin world.

“But there I used to be, hiding the fact of my life behind the unreal perfection of Marcia Brady.

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“Nobody suspected the worry that gnawed at me whilst I lent my voice to the refrain of Bradys singing, ‘It’s a Sunshine Day.’”

When the present ended Maureen turned to a lifetime of partying in Hollywood, creating an dependancy to cocaine and quaaludes aged 20.

She quickly developed a nasty fame for being unreliable within the trade as dependancy took over, even flunking an interview with Stephen Spielberg for Raiders Of The Misplaced Ark as a result of she was excessive.

She admitted in her biography that she had intercourse with a cocaine supplier, and her behaviour led to a few undesirable pregnancies.

She added: “I sought refuge in seemingly glamorous cocaine dens above Hollywood.

“I assumed I might discover solutions there, whereas in actuality I used to be merely working farther from myself.

“From there, I spiraled downward on a path of self-destruction that value me my profession and really almost my life.”

Maureen went to rehab and credit her husband Michael and her daughter Natalie for turning her life round.