'Brady Bunch' star is 'happy to be sober' after battling drug addiction

Maureen McCormick has been sober for over 40 years — and she wouldn't have it any other way.

The former child star, who famously played the role of Marcia Brady on the 1970s sitcom The Brady Bunch, said she was “incredibly lucky” to have fallen into drug addiction and sobriety after the series ended found.

“It's not easy at all at the beginning, but it's getting better every day,” the 68-year-old recently told Us Weekly.

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“I'm so happy to be sober and feel really clear and comfortable in my own skin,” the actress noted.

McCormick emphasized that sobriety “was everything to me.” She shared that her husband Michael Cummings helped her get clean. The couple married in 1985 and have a daughter together, 35-year-old Natalie.

“I’m so happy to be sober and feel really clear and comfortable in my own skin.”

— Maureen McCormick

Maureen McCormick as Marcia Brady in The Brady Bunch, circa 1972. (CBS via Getty Images)

“My husband was a big part of it for me, my mom, my dad, my family and some really close friends,” McCormick told the outlet. “It’s an amazing journey.”

“I feel very blessed to have him in my life,” she said of Cummings.

The road to sobriety was not smooth for McCormick. She struggled with cocaine addiction for five years. She opened up about her struggles in her 2008 memoir, “Here's the Story.”

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Maureen McCormick and her husband Michael Cummings attend the HollyRod Foundation DesignCares Gala at Rolling Greens on September 28, 2024 in Los Angeles. (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)

“I played Marcia Brady for five years. But I was not her in any way, shape or form. She was perfect. I was anything but that,” McCormick wrote, quoted by The Telegraph.

“I sought refuge in seemingly glamorous cocaine dens above Hollywood,” she admitted. “I thought I would find answers there, when in reality I was just running further and further away from myself. From then on, I embarked on a path of self-destruction that cost me my career and almost my life.”

“Over the years, I battled drug addiction and bulimia,” she wrote. “I was treated in a psychiatric hospital, went back and forth to rehab, looking to God for answers… When there was cocaine, I had to stay up and drink to the last sip, even if it meant not sleeping for days. Nothing.” the other thing was important.

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In 2018, McCormick told Us Weekly that her parents “almost turned me in to the police.”

“They had been trying for years and knew something was up. I was pretty sneaky and very, very good at hiding. But then I started screwing up jobs and so many things, so I'm sure everyone in the industry knew then that I was about to snap.

It was Cummings, she told the outlet, who gave her an ultimatum after her latest relapse.

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The cast of “The Brady Bunch,” circa 1973. From the top row: Christopher Knight (Peter), Barry Williams (Greg), Ann B. Davis (Alice); middle row: Eve Plumb (Jan), Florence Henderson (Carol), Robert Reed (Mike), Maureen McCormick (Marcia); bottom row: Susan Olsen (Cindy), Mike Lookinland (Bobby). (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

“He came to me and said, 'If you ever take that drug again, I'm gone, I'm leaving,'” McCormick recalled. “It woke me up. It was like the coldest shower you could ever take. There’s no way I’m going to lose someone I love.”

Reflecting on her experience, McCormick offered some no-nonsense advice for those affected by addiction.

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“I recommend that anyone who is having difficulty throw away the phone book and … not hang out with anyone who uses it,” she warned. “I literally had to say goodbye to so many people I spent time with.”