She spoke with TV brothers Barry Williams and Christopher Knight on their podcast.
“I look different.
it’s possible for you to even see it in some of the early publicity shots.
‘The Brady Bunch’ character Cindy was played by Susan Olsen.Credit:Silver Screen Collection/Getty
you’re free to tell my face is a little swollen.”
Olsen’s accident was one of her less fond memories.
When it happened, she said, her TV mom had comforted her.
‘The Brady Bunch’ cast in the pilot episode.Silver Screen Collection/Getty
She recalled everyone else around telling her that she was fine, so she held back tears.
“I want to sob.
I’m just gonna let go and forget all my pride and just sob because this hurts.”
The young actress cut her workday short and went to her doctor.
“But I came to work the next day.
Florence was the first one to see me.
She’s like, ‘You check that 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.'”
Olsen said she was anything but that, but she enjoyed some of it.
“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.
“I loved Lucy.
She was my idol.
And I was so thrilled to have him.
“Didn’t know anything about that,” Knight said.
Listen to the full conversation above.
Reps for Olsen did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
