TURNING POINTS

A Very Brady Confession

How the actress who played Marcia overcame cocaine and depression

NEWSWEEK
Published Nov 1, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Nov 10, 2008

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  • Posted By: Tracie Jacobs @ 05/11/2009 3:44:30 PM

    Kudos to Maureen! Thank you for sharing your story! So many people need HOPE and you provide that through your story. May God continue to bless you in your journey!

  • Posted By: Tracie Jacobs @ 05/11/2009 3:43:02 PM

    Hurrah for Maureen! Thank you for sharing your story. I believe it will be a blessing to those who read. Many people
    need to have HOPE! and you provide that! May you continue your journey with God all things are possible! (But He also provides good psychologist and medical doctors that can prescribe medication that can make the difference in peoples life). Thanks Again! God Bless You!

  • Posted By: CarolindaCool @ 03/14/2009 1:57:56 AM

    Ms. Mccormick,
    I'm glad you wrote this article, and I'm glad you wrote your book. goodgod----there are SO MANY ways of growing up all screwed up, and I'm certainly not downplaying the pain. It's formidable, no doubt. My money's on you---to continue the process of healing---and the "stuff" will take a position even further back than the back burner. You're beautiful---and your brave---and you'll be fine. Inner peace sure doesn't come free, but you've got quite a handle on it! {:+} Don't dare give up!! The reward of inner peace and tranquility is definitely worth it. Keep on trucking! I'm counting on you. {:+}

    • Posted By: CarolindaCool @ 03/14/2009 2:10:29 AM

      grumble grumble. I felt I really wanted to reach out and respond to you---but not with writing that has typos in it. {:+{ I didn't spell your last name properly, and somehow wrote "your" instead of "you're"!!! Oof---that's for the endless message posters to do---not for me. Please forgive.

  • Posted By: dopelgangerA @ 11/10/2008 1:01:30 PM

    I assume that celebrity must sometimes be hard enough on adults who CHOOSE to become TV or movie stars (at last they have SOME idea, in the grown-up world, of what they're getting into). But, for those who enter the Hollywood fishbowl while they are still growing up, that surely can be harder.

  • Posted By: ObamaYesWeCan @ 11/03/2008 8:02:18 PM

    This moronic scumbag Samuel J. Wurzelbacher "Joe the Plumber" had his AZ driver license suspended

    http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/128323

    Wurzelbacher, who lived in Mesa in 2000 and had an Arizona driver's license, had his driver's license suspended by the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division on May 4, 2000, following a nonpayment of a court-imposed fine for civil traffic violations, according to court records.

    ...owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes, according to public records, still owes more than $700 to the Mesa court system.

    Records show he was cited for failure to stop at a red light and for failure to provide proof of insurance on Feb. 9, 2000, in a black Dodge truck at the intersection of Dobson and Baseline roads in Mesa.

    After failing to pay his original fine of $627.50 issued in March 2000, his license was suspended and the fine was handed over to a collection agency along with a 16 percent surcharge. The now-resident of Holland, Ohio, still owes $727.90 to the Mesa Municipal Court, according to court records.

    Hopefully the collection agency will break both of his legs so he'll never be able to walk nor work ever again. This typical Republican scumbag deserves it.

  • Posted By: ObamaYesWeCan @ 11/02/2008 2:13:18 PM

    This moronic scumbag Samuel J. Wurzelbacher "Joe the Plumber" had his AZ driver license suspended

    http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/128323

    Wurzelbacher, who lived in Mesa in 2000 and had an Arizona driver's license, had his driver's license suspended by the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division on May 4, 2000, following a nonpayment of a court-imposed fine for civil traffic violations, according to court records.

    ...owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes, according to public records, still owes more than $700 to the Mesa court system.

    Records show he was cited for failure to stop at a red light and for failure to provide proof of insurance on Feb. 9, 2000, in a black Dodge truck at the intersection of Dobson and Baseline roads in Mesa.

    After failing to pay his original fine of $627.50 issued in March 2000, his license was suspended and the fine was handed over to a collection agency along with a 16 percent surcharge. The now-resident of Holland, Ohio, still owes $727.90 to the Mesa Municipal Court, according to court records.

    Hopefully the collection agency will break both of his legs so he'll never be able to walk nor work ever again. This typical Republican scumbag deserves it.

    http://obamaoursavior.blogspot.com

    • Posted By: sjbrock80 @ 11/03/2008 5:11:02 PM

      That's a real class organization you all are running there. Ripping on a guy for asking a question? Some Obama campaigner came to my door yesterday to see who I was voting for. He was all decked out in an Obama hat, shirt, and buttons. The funny part is that he was obviously drunk and even had beer stains all over his shirt. Like I said, a real classy organization you all got going...

  • Posted By: Fort Begay @ 11/03/2008 11:50:35 AM

    The Maureen story tells that even if we sees someone on the screen on a weekly basis does not tell us anything of what that person experiences. I get the feeling that people do not know themselves at all either. Look how long it took Maureen to realize that just possibly antidepressants could maybe help her. I wish she had displayed that type of misgivings when she saw the pile of cocaine.

  • Posted By: Sinibaldi @ 11/03/2008 11:33:10 AM

    La corriente que trae la vida.

    El ligero sonido
    percibe los
    años de una
    edad silenciosa,
    como el verso
    de amor que
    recuerda armonioso
    esa intensa poesía.

    Francesco Sinibaldi

    http://figaro.concileo.com/user/non-frames/message.asp?forumid=240&messageid=1648974&threadid=1648974&parentid=3

  • Posted By: larryg123 @ 11/03/2008 9:49:43 AM

    Why don't you leave him the %^&$ alone. He is just an "Average Joe" who did not ask to be thrown in the limelight. God forbid someone asks a question of a future president and he gets thrown to the wolves about his taxes and income. I will make sure if I ask a question, to give a fake name so you liberal asses won't find me. If you want to find me, my name is Charlie Brown.

  • Posted By: techresmgt @ 11/02/2008 10:45:12 AM

    Oddly, the media is not nearly as kind to men that have overcome addictions.

  • Posted By: Great Auntkat @ 11/02/2008 10:25:42 AM

    Her name is Maureen not Marcia!
    I say good for her, I m glad to hear that she is doing well. Teenage years are hard enough without being placed under a microscope and analyzed. Sharing her story is important, if her book changes the life of one person struggling then that's fantastic!!

  • Posted By: btsmom @ 11/02/2008 10:01:05 AM

    What cruel ugly things to say about someone. It takes great courage to admit that you have/had a problem. I for one applaud where she is today. We all have things in our past, and for some the present, that we don't want the world to know about. I for one can tell you I would not want to live with the knowledge that what I did back when I was younger coudl make it to that tabloids or even main stream media. Good for her that she told HER story HER way. I watched her on Celebrity fit Club and can honestly say I respect and admire her as a person and only wish her well.

  • Posted By: ObamaYesWeCan @ 11/01/2008 6:21:14 PM

    This moronic scumbag Samuel J. Wurzelbacher "Joe the Plumber" had his AZ driver license suspended

    http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/128323

    Wurzelbacher, who lived in Mesa in 2000 and had an Arizona driver's license, had his driver's license suspended by the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division on May 4, 2000, following a nonpayment of a court-imposed fine for civil traffic violations, according to court records.

    ...owes nearly $1,200 in back taxes, according to public records, still owes more than $700 to the Mesa court system.

    Records show he was cited for failure to stop at a red light and for failure to provide proof of insurance on Feb. 9, 2000, in a black Dodge truck at the intersection of Dobson and Baseline roads in Mesa.

    After failing to pay his original fine of $627.50 issued in March 2000, his license was suspended and the fine was handed over to a collection agency along with a 16 percent surcharge. The now-resident of Holland, Ohio, still owes $727.90 to the Mesa Municipal Court, according to court records.


    Hopefully the collection agency will break both of his legs so he'll never be able to walk nor work ever again. This typical Republican scumbag deserves it.

    • Posted By: idiot marcia brady @ 11/02/2008 10:00:05 AM

      nd what does this have to do with Marcia Brady?

  • Posted By: idiot marcia brady @ 11/02/2008 9:58:39 AM

    Why do these Hollywood people always have to air their dirty underwear in public? Oh yeah, when you're washed up you have to make a buck somehow.

  • Posted By: Jankavkee3 @ 11/02/2008 8:45:53 AM

    Marcia Marcia Marcia - I don't care...

  • Posted By: Jankavkee3 @ 11/02/2008 8:45:22 AM

    Marcia Marcia Marcia - does anyone care?

  • Posted By: HAL--- @ 11/01/2008 11:01:42 PM

    Who is she and why should I care? I love it when celebrities and people of means screw up their lives then tell their story. It just shows them to be the hollow idiots they really are.

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