# Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick traded sex for drugs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674 "2008-10-19T23:07:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/1 "2008-10-19T23:07:28Z")
[Not a very Brady thing to do!](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3201456/Brady-Bunch-star-Maureen-McCormick-traded-sex-for-drugs.html) Kind of a surprise. I never heard a peep about this. > [@](#): > > In a tell-all memoir Maureen McCormick, who played the eldest daughter Marcia Brady on the long-running sit-com about the wholesome “blended” family of a “man named Brady”, says her life became the polar opposite of her character. > > “I had played Marcia Brady for five years. But I wasn’t her in any way, shape or form. She was perfect. I was anything but that,” McCormick writes. > > The book, called “Here’s the Story,” is the latest in a string of revelations about the TV family after the disclosure that Bob Reed, the actor who played the on-screen father, was a closeted homosexual who later contracted AIDS. > > In her book, McCormick, now 52, tells how she got deeper and deeper into Hollywood’s drug scene - even after a powerful producer threatened to stop her working in Tinseltown. > > “I sought refuge in seemingly glamorous cocaine dens above Hollywood. I thought I would find answers there, while in reality I was simply running farther from myself. From there, I spiralled downward on a path of self-destruction that cost me my career and very nearly my life,” she writes. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/2 "2008-10-19T23:14:16Z")
From the story, the part about trading drugs for sex didn’t sound like it involved a lot of people. > [@](#): > > McCormick says she traded sex for drugs with a Hollywood cocaine dealer who later went to jail, and once allowed an older man she met at the Playboy Mansion to videotape her naked in exchange for drugs. It sounds like she did it with one person and had some isolated incidents with it. The headline seems misleading if this is all the story is about. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/3 "2008-10-19T23:27:59Z")
Well… it’s possible it was a one off, but based on her self described history of being a long term, strung out, very hardcore coke addict I don’t think I’d bet my ranch that she traded her pussy for blow once and once only. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/4 "2008-10-20T00:02:52Z")
[Jan] Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! [/Jan] ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/5 "2008-10-20T00:16:05Z")
And the evil Mrsin says as I read him this tread: “Sex for drugs? I get sex and drugs? What’s the downside, win, win.” Look out SkaldtR, if MrSin becomes a member you might have a run for your evilness. And he’s collecting nuclear bees. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/6 "2008-10-20T00:19:50Z")
> [@](#): > > McCormick, now 52 Does this make anyone else feel old? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/7 "2008-10-20T00:55:38Z")
I had some sympathy for her the first time she came out with her “revelations” a few years ago. Then she went on Celebrity Fat Club. Then it was Dr. Phil with some teary drama about her dad and her brothers. Now I’m thinking Maureen McCormick ain’t nothing but a drama queen attention whore who’s always looking to make a buck off her past and the private business of her ex-coworkers. Go 'way, Marcia! ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/8 "2008-10-20T01:55:05Z")
I guess anyone who was depicted on the Wall O’ Faces qualifies as a “Brady Bunch star?” Which would disqualify Sam the Butcher, and Tiger, and the Hawaiian tiki god. Did Cousin Oliver ever make the Wall? Sherwood Schwartz had a definite knack for closed-system, hellish Existentialist-style sitcoms in which the stars outnumbered the supporting characters. Frankly I am astounded that the kids all somehow made it to adulthood, a fact which I can only attribute to the benevolent all-encompassing aura of Davy Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/9 "2008-10-20T03:44:56Z")
I had the chick from “Different Strokes” proposition me for a $500 blowjob. She eventually got down to $20. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/10 "2008-10-20T04:01:56Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Does this make anyone else feel old? A little, but she’s still older than me and that makes me feel slightly better. ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/11 "2008-10-20T04:02:26Z")
What did you spend the twenty on? ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/12 "2008-10-20T04:11:17Z")
> [@Tenebras](#): > > What did you spend the twenty on? :D:D:D This made me laugh waaay more than it deserved. what’d ya spend the 20 on? heh heh heh ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/13 "2008-10-20T04:36:28Z")
Wonder how well a book by a former child star would sell it they had a wonderful, normal life? Has it ever been done? I may chekc it out at the library, anything in there about a tryst between her and David Cassidy? ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/14 "2008-10-20T06:07:48Z")
Mom always said, don’t shoot smack in the house. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/15 "2008-10-20T07:21:04Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > [Jan] > Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! > [/Jan] [Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/24/earlyshow/contributors/jesscagle/main3291112.shtml) > [@](#): > > According to the New York Post, McCormick is going to reveal that she had an affair with her TV sister, Jan, played by actress Eve Plumb in “Here’s the Story.” The book is scheduled to come out in 2008. > > The book’s publisher, HarperCollins imprint William Morrow, denies that McCormick will reveal an affair with Plumb. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/16 "2008-10-20T07:58:01Z")
Holy crap! All this time I had her confused with [Christine Taylor](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3780875264/nm0852132)! I was thinking, “Man, Marcia Brady aged well and still has it!” She looks so much like her! Another small skirmish fought against ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/17 "2008-10-20T08:06:37Z")
[And now I think I see why.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112572/) :smack: Well, at least I have something to contribute to the next, “ **Stupid things you didn’t know or just recently figured out**.” thread. Yeah, just that one thing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/18 "2008-10-20T13:07:48Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I had the chick from “Different Strokes” proposition me for a $500 blowjob. She eventually got down to $20. Charlotte Rae?!?! ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/19 "2008-10-20T13:14:25Z")
Wait- I would swear the ‘lesbian tryst between McCormick and Plumb’ story already came out, like a couple years ago. At least, it’s been in the spank bank for that long. Does Marsha come out with a new tell-all book every 2 years? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674/20 "2008-10-20T13:29:22Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Does Marsha come out with a new tell-all book every 2 years? Or whenever the blow runs out. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brady-bunch-star-maureen-mccormick-traded-sex-for-drugs/468674.md?page=2)