Brady Bunch star, Susan Olsen a.k.a. Cindy Brady, is looking back on filming the pilot episode of the classic sitcom -- which nearly killed her.
While appearing on the The Brady Bunch re-watch podcast, the Real Brady Bros, Olsen revealed that she almost died at age 7 after being injured filming the show's very first episode back in 1969.
"My eyes were black. I mean, I had two black eyes. My nose was swollen. My face was swollen," Olsen recalled.
Reuniting with onscreen siblings Barry Williams (Greg), Christopher Knight (Peter) and Mike Lookinland (Bobby) to rewatch The Brady Bunch's 1969 pilot episode, the actress explained that she was severely injured while having her makeup put on one day before filming.
"On the Culver lot, they were shooting something -- I would assume, in the girls' bedroom -- and I was getting body makeup on my legs," Olsen remembered. "I was standing on a makeup chair and something from the catwalk, where they keep all the lights and everything, fell."
"[The debris] hit the makeup man first, [then] off the body makeup woman, and hit me in the face," Olsen continued.
As a result, Olsen was left with severe facial swelling, which she said was visible in "some of the early publicity shots."
Despite the workplace injury, Olsen said that her family chose not to take legal action against the studio so as not to risk her job on the show -- but now, she wishes they did.