Maureen McCormick is so proud of the place she is in her life and profession now, years after starring as Marcia Brady in The Brady Bunch. The beloved actress opened up about her sobriety journey amid the present’s fifty fifth anniversary.
“I really feel actually extremely fortunate that I discovered sobriety. It’s been all the pieces to me,” she informed Us Weekly in an interview printed on Sunday, September 29. “And it’s not straightforward at first in any respect, however it simply will get higher day-after-day. It does, you understand? I’m so completely satisfied to be sober and to be actually clear and cozy in my pores and skin.”
Maureen’s sobriety started greater than 40 years in the past, and he or she thanked her husband, Michael Cummings, and her dad and mom for being the rationale why she determined to make the large life change.
“It’s a tremendous journey,” she stated about her marriage to the actor. “We’re occurring 40 years, which is unimaginable. I really feel very blessed to have him in my life.”
Throughout the interview, Maureen, 68, additionally admitted that she “had no thought” that The Brady Bunch was celebrating its fifty fifth anniversary. “The present will simply at all times maintain an excellent heat spot in my coronary heart,” she stated after discovering out concerning the milestone after seeing a submit on X.
Maureen starred as Marcia on the collection from 1969 to 1974 and appeared in a number of of the spinoffs. Nevertheless, she overtly skilled some private struggles whereas grappling with fame. The California native beforehand opened up about her previous drug habit throughout a September 2017 interview with Entertainment Tonight.
“I struggled with drug habit for gosh, six, seven years and it was terrible,” she informed the outlet on the time whereas attending the Summer time Spectacular benefiting the Brent Shapiro Basis for Drug Prevention. “I’ve been sober now for 35 years, and my life has by no means been so good.”
She talked about how her husband helped her get by means of the tough interval in her life.
“After we first received collectively, I used to be nonetheless dabbling, and he stated, ‘, it’s both me or that, take it or I’m out of right here,’” Maureen mirrored. “And I spotted that I didn’t wish to lose one of many best issues I had ever discovered.”
Finally, she feels fortunate to be alive and capable of support others who could also be experiencing the identical factor.
“I’m so fortunate to be right here, alive, and I really feel like my thoughts continues to be actually good,” she stated. “I really feel very very fortunate that I got here out of it.”
“For those who’re an addictive character, it’s a illness and it’s nothing to be ashamed of,” she stated. “So many individuals in the present day are nonetheless simply extremely embarrassed about speaking about it as if it’s a weak point … That’s what we’re all right here for on this Earth, proper? To assist one another and to speak about our experiences as a result of that’s how all of us heal and get higher.”
