.MelodyThomasSco opened up about her road to stardom with ET’s Nischelle Turner.
In the candid chat, Thomas discussed being raised by her grandmother, who she claims pushed her into stardom at any cost.
According to Thomas, her grandmother allowed men to sexually abuse her in order to further her acting career, which she began at the age of eight. “I think in her naivete,” said Thomas, who talks further about her rough upbringing in her new memoir,. “I think she felt that whatever had to happen in order to get ahead in show business would be okay.”
“She would get there and watch -- I would see her doing it with [my] wild eyes [expressing,] ‘Do you see what's happening here? Please save me,’” she continued. “And there would be no saving.”said while the situation with her grandmother worsened as she reached her teenage years, she ultimately became stronger from the experience.
“Her behavior got worse and worse and worse, so by the time I was a teenager it was just madness,” Thomas said. “It taught me strength, that's for sure. I knew I had to be strong to survive her and it was not easy, but you learn perseverance.” That perseverance lead Thomas into a long and successful acting career, spanning almost six decades. In, she discusses her professional ups and downs and shares how she was almost cast as Marcia Brady in
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