Surviving Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.

Another Brady, another book, but we are still fascinated by the “perfect American family” telling us life in The Brady Bunch wasn’t always so sweet.

52yo Maureen McCormick, and now a country music singer, is releasing her memoirs in “Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice.” Screen-brother Barry Williams already published his years ago, when he told us about his crush on McCormick (and, fleetingly, his “mother” Florence Henderson ewww).

McCormick has been pushing herself back in the spotlight in recent years including a stint on Celebrity Fit Club and telling Dr. Phil of her estrangement with her father.

In her new book she reckons she had teenage dates with Michael Jackson and Steve Martin, neither of which went well. She also writes of cocaine binges and parties at the Playboy Mansion and the home of Sammy Davis Jr., an unwanted pregnancy and trading sex for drugs.

McCormick was 14 when The Brady Bunch ran from 1969 to 1974. Despite her role as a perfect teen she grappled privately with anxiety and insecurity, the youngest of four children born to a mercurial father who abused and cheated on their mother.

“As a teenager, I had no idea that few people are everything they present to the outside world,” she 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 even as I lent my voice to the chorus of Bradys singing, `It’s a Sunshine Day.'”

McCormick met Jackson when he was part of the Jackson 5. “Once we went ice-skating and he held my hand as we glided around the rink,” the book recalls. “I wondered if he might try to kiss me, but he didn’t. After another outing, he did give me a kiss goodbye. But it was only a gentle peck on the cheek.”

Things became hot and heavy smooching Barry Williams while filming episodes in Hawaii.

“Oh my God! I’m kissing my brother. What am I doing?” she writes.

There were more men in McCormick’s life, which spiralled downward into substance abuse and depression as she struggled to reconcile her Brady image with her private pain.

When the series ended she took up a hard-partying lifestyle in Hollywood, using drugs including cocaine. She struggled to regain her earlier success, even botching an interview with Steven Spielberg for a role in Raiders of the Lost Ark because she was high.

After interventions, stints in rehab and experimental therapies, McCormick began getting sober in 1985 when she married actor Michael Cummings, with whom she has a daughter, Natalie. She continued to fight depression through therapy, medication and the help of “Brady” cast mates.

As for her iconic role, “I’ll always be struck by how much a part of people’s lives Marcia is and always will be. But now I’m not bothered by the connection. It took most of my life, countless mistakes and decades of pain and suffering to reach this point of equanimity and acceptance,” she says.

Lucky she never pashed Danny Bonaduce…

Source: AP / Yahoo