"To some extent, I felt guilt" - Susan Olsen reveals she’s 'prayed' for The Brady Bunch's end

Susan Olsen recently made candid revelations about her role on the hit sitcom The Brady Bunch.

Olsen made her on-screen debut with The Brady Bunch, which aired on ABC for five years between 1969 and 1974. In the May 21 episode of the podcast The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan, Olsen shared that when the show ended, she experienced guilt. Explaining herself, Olsen said:

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“To some extent, I felt guilt…Yeah because I had been praying for the show to be cancelled.”

To be fair, Olsen started acting on the sitcom when she was 7 years old. When the show finally ended, she was 12. Sharing why she wished the show would end, Olsen revealed:

“It is bad enough to go through awkward stage, and to feel really ugly, but to do it on national TV, is not something I wanted to do”

Billy Corgan delved into the issue further and asked Olsen whether it is appropriate for children to appear on national television at such a young age. His question came in the context of the fame that child artists acquire early in life and the consequences such exposure may have on them. Responding to Corgan’s question, Olsen added:

“It is a difficult question because I actually teach children…there are children where it would be cruel to not let them [work as artists]”

Olsen went on to share that she had to fight her dad to be able to perform and act, as her father thought it was “unnatural” for children to work in the entertainment industry.

Susan Olsen’s mixed feelings about The Brady Bunch

Despite the hardships she experienced while being on The Brady Bunch, Susan Olsen revealed during the podcast that children still enjoy watching the show. Olsen said:

“I mean hopefully, it will be always around because I think it will always be good for kids…what I thought made it so uncool when I was young."

Continuing, Olsen added,

"Now I am a mother, its like, there are good stories, nice morals, and you know teaching ethics…In fact I tell my kids, my students, well you should watch the show. I tell the parents, ‘come on, make them watch, you don't you have no idea how much it will help you in your parenting.’”

While Olsen admits that the show continues to have a positive effect on its audience. She has also been candid in recent appearances about some of the serious incidents that took place while the sitcom was being filmed.

During her recent appearance on The Real Brady Bros podcast with Christopher Knight and Barry Williams, Olsen spoke about a near-death experience on the set of the show. She revealed:

“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…it hit the makeup man first, [bounced] off the body makeup woman, and hit me in the face.”

Susan Olsen further revealed during the podcast that she regrets not suing the production company for the mishap that seriously injured people.

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