Susan Richardson, née le 11 mars 1952 à Bath, dans l'état du Maine aux États-Unis, est une actrice américaine principalement connue pour son rôle de Susan Bradford dans la série télé Huit, ça suffit !

Biographie

On March 15, 1978, Richardson married Michael Virden, and shortly thereafter became pregnant, which was also written into Eight is Enough. She gave birth to their daughter, Sarah, on March 27, 1980.

After her pregnancy, a rumor was spread that Richardson would lose her job if she did not shed her pregnancy weight; she had gained 90 lb (41 kg). Finding it very difficult to slim down by normal means, so she started using cocaine as a weight loss aid, and she became addicted. (She later kicked the habit.)

After Eight is Enough, Richardson and battled addiction to morphine following a debilitating tailbone injury.

In January 2013, The Huffington Post published a report from a National Enquirer interview with Richardson. She reported she had fallen on extremely hard times, living in an unheated trailer with a rotting floor in Wagontown, Pennsylvania, not far from her hometown of Coatesville. Richardson said she had developed diabetes, suffered several mini-strokes, weighed only 60 lb (27 kg), and had also lost her teeth as the result of a digestive condition.