Brady Bunch star Susan Olsen claims she almost died on set

Here’s the story of a lovely lady — who almost didn’t survive the first day on set.Susan Olsen, who played Cindy Brady — the youngest of the Brady children on “The Brady Bunch” — recently revealed some of the darker memories of filming the sitcom.“I got injured.I almost died,” the actress, 63, recounted while on “The Real Brady Bros” podcast with her former co-stars Christopher Knight and Barry Williams.“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.

Was standing on a makeup chair and something from the catwalk, where they keep all the lights and everything, fell,” she explained.“It hit the makeup man first, [bounced] off the body makeup woman, and hit me in the face.”Olsen was left pretty badly hurt, and her injuries could be seen during the wedding between her on-screen mother Carol (Florence Henderson) and Mike (Robert Reed).“You can tell, if you look at the 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,” she told Knight and Williams, 70, who played Peter and Greg, respectively. “I look different.

You can even see it in some of the early publicity shots.You can tell my face is a little swollen.”Only Henderson, who died of heart failure in 2016 at age 82, comforted her at the time.

Everyone else on set told her she would be fine.“In fact, I don’t just wanna cry,” she recalled.“I want to sob.

I’m just gonna let go and forget all my pride and just sob because this hurts.”She decided to cut out of work early and head to the doctor immediately.“The saddest news is that we didn’t sue Paramount, because I would have made more off of that than the show,” Olsen added, laughing.

“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.�...