Henderson, now 77, recounts in her upcoming memoir that she was cheating on her husband during the 1960s and gave in to her better judgment when her married friend put the moves on her over drinks at the Beverly Hills Hotel. “I was lonely. I knew it wasn’t the right thing to do. So, what did I do? I did it,” she writes in Life is Not a Stage, set for publication in September. Henderson went home later that night and awoke to a grisly surprise the next day as she saw “little black things” crawling over her bed and body.
An urgent call to a doctor took care of the problem, known medically as pubic lice, and Lindsay sent her flowers and a note of apology. “Guess I learned the hard way that crabs do not discriminate but cross over all socioeconomic strata,” Henderson writes. “He must have had quite the active life. What a way to put the kibosh on a relationship.” Lindsay, who died in 2000, was mayor of New York from 1966 to 1973. Before that, he was a US congressman. He launched a brief bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972. His wife of 51 years died in 2004.
However, the book devotes only a chapter to that part of her life, and she shoots down the oft-told story that she had an off-screen affair with Barry Williams, who played her eldest teenaged stepson, Greg Brady. “Barry did have a serious crush on me, which I understood and helped him get past,” Henderson writes. “Let us just say that if he had entertained a roll in the hay with me, I would never have done it.” The two, separated in age by 20 years, remain good friends to this day, she said.
Brady Bunch mom got crabs in affair with mayor friend - Taipei Times
