‘Brady Bunch’ star Maureen McCormick ‘happy to be sober’ after battling drug addiction: ‘It gets better'

Maureen McCormick has been sober for implicit 40 years – and she would not person it immoderate different way.

The erstwhile kid star, who famously played Marcia Brady successful the 1970s sitcom "The Brady Bunch," said she feels "incredibly lucky" to person recovered sobriety aft falling into cause addiction aft the bid ended.

"It’s not casual successful the opening astatine all, but it gets amended each day," the 68-year-old precocious told Us Weekly.

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Maureen McCormick has been happily sober for implicit 40 years. (Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage/Getty Images)

"I’m truthful blessed to beryllium sober and to beryllium truly wide and comfy successful my skin," the histrion noted.

McCormick stressed that sobriety has "been everything to me." She shared that her husband, Michael Cummings, helped her get clean. The brace joined successful 1985 and stock a daughter, 35-year-old Natalie.

"I’m truthful blessed to beryllium sober and to beryllium truly wide and comfy successful my skin."

Maureen McCormick arsenic Marcia Brady successful "The Brady Bunch," circa 1972. (CBS via Getty Images)

"My hubby was a large portion of that for me, and my mom, dad, family, and immoderate truly adjacent friends," McCormick told the outlet. "It’s an astonishing journey."

"I consciousness precise blessed to person him successful my life," she said astir Cummings.

The roadworthy to sobriety was not a creaseless 1 for McCormick. For 5 years, she struggled with a cocaine addiction. She opened up astir her struggles successful the 2008 memoir, "Here’s the Story."

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Maureen McCormick and her hubby Michael Cummings be the HollyRod Foundation DesignCares Gala astatine Rolling Greens connected Sept. 28, 2024, successful Los Angeles. (Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)

"I had played Marcia Brady for 5 years. But I wasn't her successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form. She was perfect. I was thing but that," McCormick wrote, arsenic quoted by The Telegraph.

"I sought refuge successful seemingly glamorous cocaine dens supra Hollywood," she admitted. "I thought I would find answers there, portion successful reality, I was simply moving farther from myself. From there, I spiraled downward connected a way of self-destruction that outgo maine my vocation and precise astir my life."

"Over the years I battled cause addiction and bulimia," she wrote. "I was treated successful a psych ward, went successful and retired of rehab, and looked to God for answers… If determination was coke, I had to enactment up and bash each past flake, adjacent if it meant going without slumber for days. Nothing other mattered."

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In 2018, McCormick told Us Weekly that her parents "almost turned maine successful to the cops."

"They had been trying for years and knew thing was going on. I was beauteous sneaky, and I could fell very, precise well. But past I started messing up connected jobs and truthful galore things, truthful I’m definite everyone successful the manufacture astatine the clip knew that I was flaking out."

It was Cummings, she told the outlet, who gave her an ultimatum aft her past relapse.

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

"He came to maine and said, ‘If you ever bash this cause again, I’m gone, I’m leaving," McCormick recalled. "It woke maine up. It was similar the coldest ablution you could ever take. There’s conscionable nary mode I’m gonna suffer idiosyncratic that I love."

Reflecting connected her experience, McCormick gave immoderate no-nonsense proposal to those faced with addiction.

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"I urge to anyone who’s struggling to propulsion that telephone publication retired and… bash not bent retired with anyone who’s using," she warned. "I had to virtually accidental goodbye to truthful galore radical that I was hanging retired with."