Brady Bunch famous person finds how she nearly DIED whilst filming the long-lasting sitcom’s pilot episode

Former Brady Bunch kid famous person Susan Olsen has printed {that a} grave coincidence can have killed her whilst she filmed the pilot for the long-lasting sequence within the past due 1960s.

Olsen, who performed Cindy Brady, recounted being left with a swollen face after lighting fixtures apparatus fell immediately onto her.

‘My eyes have been black. I imply, I had two black eyes. My nostril was once swollen. My face was once swollen,’ the actress, now 63, mentioned as she appeared again on the display’s beginnings at the re-watch podcast, The Real Brady Bros.

The incident came about the day sooner than the forged amassed to movie the pilot episode in 1969. Susan, simply seven years outdated on the time, were getting her make-up completed when she was once struck.

She shared the tale with former costars Barry Williams and Christopher Knight, and she or he famous that she needed her circle of relatives had sued the studio for the coincidence.

‘The saddest information is that we did not sue Paramount, as a result of I might have made extra off of that than the display,’ Olsen mentioned candidly. 

Olsen, who performed Cindy Brady, recounted being left with a swollen face after lighting fixtures apparatus fell immediately onto her in 1969; pictured in 1973

‘But I got here to paintings tomorrow. Florence [Henderson] was once the primary one to peer me. She’s like, “You make sure everybody sees her.” And my mother was once like, “Oh, yes, I will.” Because everyone was once seeking to say, “It didn’t really hit her. She’s fine.”‘

The actress endured, ‘I appeared like I used to be in a horror movie. And then everyone knew, sure, I had gotten harm, and I had gotten harm very badly.’

To duvet her bruised face for the pilot, Brady Bunch author Sherwood Schwartz enlisted make-up artist Hal King, who had prior to now labored with Lucille Ball.

Susan mentioned, ‘He was once the specialist to hide up my black eyes. I cherished Lucy. She was once my idol.

‘I used to be so delighted to have him. And on a daily basis, my bruises can be a unique colour, and I’d say, “My bruises are purple today, Hal.”‘

The now-retired actress starred because the child of the Brady circle of relatives at the cherished sitcom that ran from 1969 to 1974.

She was once solid within the function at age 8 and seemed at the sequence during its whole run.

In 2024 Olsen claimed {that a} ‘woke’ Brady Bunch reboot was once axed over her conservative political opinions, revealing it will have had black and transgender characters. 

The incident came about sooner or later sooner than the forged amassed to movie the pilot episode in 1969. Susan, simply seven-years-old on the time, were getting her make-up completed when she was once struck; pictured in 1969

In 2024 Olsen claimed {that a} ‘woke’ Brady Bunch reboot was once deliberate , revealing it will have had black and transgender characters. But she mentioned it was once axed after social media dives printed her conservative political opinions and Covid-19 incorrect information

She additionally dished that her persona Cindy would were a Libertarian podcaster whilst Jan Brady, performed by means of outspoken liberal Eve Plumb, would have a transgender kid.

The plans have been nixed when CBS did a deep-dive on her social media accounts, which printed she was once a vaccine denier who adversarial to Covid-19 vaccine and spoke out in opposition to vaccine mandates and adversarial overlaying generally.

Olsen was once married two times. Her first marriage, to Steve Ventimiglia, lasted from 1988 to 1990.

She later married Mitch Markwell from 1995 to 2004, they usually proportion a son named Michael.