Delta Burke Talks About ‘Designing Women’ And Her Drug Abuse Struggles
deadline.comDelta Burke was once addicted to crystal meth as a way to lose weight. Speaking with Chelsea Devantez on her Glamorous Trash podcast, Burke – who played Suzanne Sugarbaker on sitcom Designing Women – talked about her falling out with series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and subsequent drug abuse. “It got ugly and very sad,” said Burke.
She worked with Bloodworth-Thomason on the sitcom Filthy Rich before Designing Women, and claimed she viewed her as a mentor. “We do Designing Women, and I’m so happy to be there,” she said. “I love everything.
But then things started to change, which I won’t go into. But that, combined with becoming famous, I simply couldn’t cope with.” “I wanted to leave,” she added, “and I wasn’t allowed to leave.
I don’t know what would have happened to me if I had been allowed to leave. Staying gave me an amazing character to get to play… and I loved it, how she evolved.
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