During a recent episode of The Real Brady Bros podcast that included a rewatch of the iconic Brady Bunch pilot episode from 1969, Susan Olsen, who played Cindy Brady, revealed that she was badly injured by something that fell from the set’s catwalk, saying she “almost died.”
“On the Culver lot, they were shooting something — I would assume, in the girl’s bedroom — and I was getting body makeup on my legs,” Olsen said. “I was standing on a makeup chair and something from the catwalk, where they keep all the lights and everything, fell.”
Olsen said the object bounced off two makeup artists and hit her in the face. By the next day, her face was swollen, and she had two black eyes.
“You can tell, if you look at the [wedding] ceremony, and you see the three girls on one side, if you were to zoom in really tight, you can see my face is quite swollen,” Olsen explained. “I look different. You can even see it in some of the early publicity shots. You can tell my face is a little swollen.”
She was “fine”
Most of the cast and crew who saw the accident tried to brush it off and say that she was “fine.”
Florence Henderson, who played the family matriarch Carol Brady, was the only one who thought she was seriously hurt and needed medical attention, Olsen said.
Olsen’s mother took her to the doctor after shooting was done for the day, but the family chose not to sue Paramount.
“The saddest news is that we didn’t sue Paramount, because I would have made more off of that than the show,” Olsen joked. “But I came to work the next day. Florence was the first one to see me. She’s like, ‘You make sure everybody sees her.’ And my mom was like, ‘Oh, yes, I will.’ Because everybody was trying to say, ‘It didn’t really hit her. She’s fine.'”
“Hurt very badly”
“My eyes were black. I mean, I had two black eyes. My nose was swollen. My face was swollen,” she said. “I remember loving it, because I looked like I was in a horror film. And then everybody knew, yes, I had gotten hurt, and I had gotten hurt very badly.”
Her costars Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, and Barry Williams, who joined her for the podcast, didn’t even know about the injury, however.
“Didn’t know anything about that,” Knight said during the podcast.
Olsen was only eight years old when she started playing Cindy Brady, whose character was seven years old in the show.
The actress said that she put on a brave face and didn’t cry over the injury even though she wanted to.
“I don’t want to be brave,” she remembers thinking. “In fact, I don’t just wanna cry, I want to sob. I’m just gonna let go and forget all my pride and just sob because this hurts.”
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Author: Jen Krausz
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