‘Brady Bunch’ star Maureen McCormick shares key to…
Maureen McCormick, who famously starred as Marcia Brady in “The Brady Bunch,” celebrated her fortieth marriage ceremony anniversary this 12 months.
The actress and her husband, Michael Cummings, say the key to a lasting union under the Hollywood highlight is surprisingly simple.
“You’ve got to have a sense of humor about things,” the actor just lately told People at The John Ritter Foundation’s Evening from the Heart Gala in Los Angeles.
“You can’t take things too seriously,” he said. “You’ve got to let things go and just love the one you’re with. It’s a lifetime deal.”
“Celebrate the differences,” McCormick also told the outlet. She revealed they both knew “right away” they needed to construct a eternally together.
It also helped that Cummings wasn’t starstruck by McCormick’s TV fame when they first met.
Maureen McCormick famously starred as Marcia Brady in “The Brady Bunch.”
“I didn’t know who she was, but I liked what I saw,” he said. “I saw those eyes and just fell in love.”
McCormick said that his lack of data about her appearing profession was “very refreshing to me.”
“… [He had] no preconceived ideas about who I was,” said the previous baby star. “It was really wonderful.”
“Ever since I was little, I wanted to get married and find somebody,” said McCormick, 69. “It’s just the craziest thing, but I looked at his eyes, we were at a concert, and I just felt like he was the one.”
McCormick and Michael Cummings attend an Evening From The Heart Los Angeles Gala at Sunset Room Hollywood on Sept. 12, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images
The couple began courting in the Eighties.
They married in 1985 and welcomed their daughter, Natalie Michelle Cummings, in 1989.
Over the years, they’ve prioritized household over fame.
“Honestly, we haven’t stopped celebrating [our anniversary], because I think it’s taken a lot of work to be [in] this place in our relationship,” said McCormick. “It’s better than ever. We feel very grateful and thankful to have found each other.”
McCormick starred in “The Brady Bunch” for 5 seasons from 1969 to 1974. She reprised her function in a number of spinoff specials and movies, later showing on reveals like “The Love Boat” and “Fantasy Island.” She also competed on “Dancing with the Stars” in 2016.
In February, McCormick called Cummings her “forever Valentine” in a heartfelt Instagram post.
In 2024, McCormick spoke about being sober for more than 40 years and said she wouldn’t have it any other approach.
McCormick said that his lack of data about her appearing profession was “very refreshing to me.” RW/MediaPunch
At the time, she told Us Weekly she felt “incredibly lucky” to have discovered sobriety after falling into drug dependancy when “The Brady Bunch” ended.
“It’s not easy in the beginning at all, but it gets better every day,” she said at the time.
McCormick said sobriety has “been everything to me.” She also credited her husband with serving to her get clean.
“I’m so happy to be sober and to be really clear and comfortable in my skin,” she said. “My husband was a big part of that for me, along with my mom, dad, family and some really close friends.”
“I feel very blessed to have him in my life,” she added, referring to Cummings.
The highway to sobriety was not easy for McCormick. For 5 years, she struggled with a cocaine dependancy, which she detailed in her 2008 memoir, “Here’s the Story.”
“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 wrote, as quoted by The Telegraph.
McCormick said she felt “incredibly lucky” to have discovered sobriety after falling into drug dependancy when “The Brady Bunch” ended.
“I sought refuge in seemingly glamorous cocaine dens above Hollywood,” she admitted. “I thought I would find answers there, while, in reality, I was simply running farther from myself. From there, I spiraled downward on a path of self-destruction that cost me my career and very nearly my life.”
“Over the years I battled drug addiction and bulimia,” she wrote. “I was treated in a psych ward, went in and out of rehab, and looked to God for answers … If there was coke, I had to stay up and do every last flake, even if it meant going without sleep for days. Nothing else mattered.”
In 2018, McCormick told Us Weekly that her mother and father “almost turned me in to the cops.”
“They had been trying for years and knew something was going on,” she said. “I was pretty sneaky, and I could hide very, very well. But then I started messing up on jobs and so many things, so I’m sure everyone in the industry at the time knew that I was flaking out.”
It was Cummings, she told the outlet, who gave her an ultimatum after her last relapse.
“He came to me and said, ‘If you ever do this drug again, I’m gone, I’m leaving,’” McCormick recalled. “It woke me up. It was like the coldest shower you could ever take. There’s just no way I’m gonna lose somebody that I love.”
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