The iconic television show of the late sixties and early seventies, "The Brady Bunch" was a slice of middle American heaven featuring a wholesome blended family of six that showed how divorce and widowhood could be overcome the second time around in love.
05/18/2008 - Maureen McCormick - 43rd Academy Of Country Music Awards - Arrivals - MGM Grand Garden Arena - Las Vegas, NV. USA © Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos
The series saw father figure Robert Reed (Mike Brady) war with producers over scripts, while living a closeted gay life until his death from bladder cancer at age 59. Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady) has fought urban myths of an alleged porn career and does drunken radio spots; Chrisopher Knight (Peter Brady) recently completed "Celebrity Circus" for NBC, leaving the show prematurely due to an injury sustained.
Now one of the key stars of the show is talking about the past. The Brady Bunch's Maureen McCormick (Marcia Brady) said she previously she suffered from the eating disorder bulimia in her late teens and early twenties, after the series came to an end.
"Back on the show, I could eat whatever I wanted," she told ET, November 2006.
Now the National Enquirer has excerpted a bit of Maureen's latest memoir.
Maureen, 52, has written some scathing revelations revealing about her loss of control into depression and drug use and addiction.
Maureen wrote of her real life ordeal of her real father abusing her and cheating on her mother.
"As a teenager, I had no idea that few people are everything they present to the outside world," McCormick writes. "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"
The Enquirer notes that McCormick "hit the party scene - bingeing on coke and Quaaludes, wild orgies at the Playboy mansion, an unwanted pregnancy - even trading sexual favors for drugs... She ruined a coveted interview with director Stephen Spielberg because she was high."
"I'll always be struck by how much a part of people's lives Marcia is and always will be," Maureen wrote. "But now I'm not bothered…It took … countless mistakes and decades of pain and suffering."
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