80s sitcom queen Delta Burke 収容する／認めるs to secret 水晶 meth 戦う／戦い - 説 she took it to lose 負わせる, wouldn't sleep for five days ... and was STILL told she looked fat
- The 67-year-old starred as a former beauty queen on CBS's Designing Women
- She fell out with show bosses by complaining the 始める，決める had become 'unpleasant '?
- She was 解雇する／砲火／射撃d the next year. She spoke about it Friday for the first time in years
Reclusive sitcom 星／主役にする Delta Burke has spoken up about some of her?mental and physical struggles as an actress in the 80s - 含むing one with 水晶 meth.
The 67-year-old starred as a former beauty queen on the 始める，決める of CBS's Designing Women, but on Friday said it was there she was 扱う／治療するd more like a slave.
She famously fell out of 好意 with the show's bosses by complaining the 始める，決める had become 'unpleasant' in a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters. She was off the show the に引き続いて year.
Speaking to Chelsea Devantez on her podcast Glamorous Trash more than 30 years later, she said of her mindset at this time 'I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to leave.'?
'And I wasn't 許すd to ,' she went on, 述べるing how her dream TV 役割 went downhill with time. 'I don't know what would have happened to me if I had been 許すd to leave... It got ugly and very sad.'?
Sitcom 星／主役にする Delta Burke (seen here at a Hollywood event in 2020) has spoken up about some of her mental and physical struggles as an actress in the 80s - 含むing one with 水晶 meth
The 67-year-old starred as a former beauty queen on the 始める，決める of CBS's De 調印 Women, but said on Friday it was there she was 扱う／治療するd more like a slave
'We do Designing Women, and I'm so happy to be there,' she told?Devantez of her five years as glamorous 離婚 Suzanne Sugarbaker, before getting into the nitty gritty of her 麻薬 中毒.?
'I love everyth ing,' she said, 供給するing her first words on the 支配する in １０年間s.??
'But then things started to change, which I won't go into.?
'But that, 連合させるd with becoming famous, that I 簡単に couldn't 対処する with.'
The actress still lives in LA, with longtime husband Gerald McRaney, 76. Showrunners at point said McRaney, also an actor, was 責任がある her struggles during this period, but Burke on Friday （人命などを）奪う，主張するd さもなければ.
'I love my life truly for the first time,'?she said of her 現在／一般に, low-profile life with McRaney, with whom she's been 結婚する for 35 years. 'And I love him 猛烈に,'?
?'I know that I'm 安全な and I'm loved,' she went on, before 主張するing, 'I didn't feel that there.
'I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to be so much, and I didn't get to be what I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to be.'
She went on to （人命などを）奪う，主張する that one of the main contributors to her contentious 1991 出口 was scrutiny over her 負わせる, which she said also led to her getting （麻薬）常用者d to 麻薬s.?
Burke (seen here Suzanne Sugarbaker on the 始める，決める of Designing Women in 1986) clamed one of the main contributors to her contentious 1991 出口 was scrutiny over her 負わせる, which she said led to her getting （麻薬）常用者d to 麻薬s
She starred と一緒に Annie Potts, ジーンズ Smart and the late Dixie Carter as foour Southern women 追求するing their dreams as high 力／強力にするd 内部の designers. The series, which earned Burke two Emmy award 指名／任命s, ended in 1993?
She 認める she was 'emotionally too 壊れやすい' to を取り引きする such scruinty at the time, before 解任するing people 尋問 whether she was 妊娠している at the time, and an instance when a fan 'jerked' her coat open and said, 'Let's see, how fat are ya?'
'I tried very hard to defend myself against lies and all the ugliness that was there and I wasn't gonna 勝利，勝つ. I'm just an actress, you know. I don't have any 力／強力にする'
'I remember on the 始める，決める, when it got to be really bad, and I wasn't 扱うing it 井戸／弁護士席 with a smiling 直面する, my whole 団体／死体 language changed. I would 肉親，親類d of hunch over... I just tried to disappear'
麻薬s （機の）カム next, she said, 明らかにする／漏らすing how she turned to 水晶 meth as a 負わせる loss method
She 認める she was 'emotionally too 壊れやすい' to を取り引きする such scrutiny at the time, before 解任するing people 尋問 whether she was 妊娠している at the time, and an instance when a fan 'jerked' her coat open and said,?'Let's see, how fat are ya?'
'I thought I was stronger,' she told Devantez during the rare podcast 外見.
'I tried very hard to defend myself against lies and all the ugliness that was there and I wasn't gonna 勝利，勝つ. I'm just an actress, you know. I don't have any 力／強力にする.'
'I remember on the 始める，決める, when it got to be really bad, and I wasn't 扱うing it 井戸／弁護士席 with a smiling 直面する, my whole 団体／死体 language changed. I would 肉親，親類d of hunch over.., I just tried to disappear.'
麻薬s （機の）カム next, she said, 明らかにする／漏らすing how she turned to 水晶 meth as a 負わせる loss method.?
'They were like 薬／医学 to me,' she told Devantez of prescription pills 法案d 支援する then as 黒人／ボイコット Beauties, which 結局 led to 水晶 meth.
'Nobody knew about [it] at the time,” she said, referring to the dangerous 麻薬, which she was told to 'snort' but would?instead “put it in cranberry juice.”
Starring in 中央の-80s series Filthy Rich at the time, she’d drink it before she'd go to work, she said, after which she 'wouldn't eat for five days.”
“And they were still 説 , "Your butt's too big. Your 脚s are too big,"' she その上の 解任するd. 'And I now look 支援する at those pictures and go, "I was a freaking goddess."'
'They were like 薬／医学 to me,' she told Devantez of prescription pills 法案d 支援する then as 黒人／ボイコット Beauties, which 結局 led to 水晶 meth
!['Nobody knew about [it] at the time,” she said, referring to the dangerous drug, which she was told to 'snort' but would instead “put it in cranberry juice.”](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/04/22/15/83942859-13336301-image-a-23_1713794455917.jpg)
'Nobody knew about [it] at the time,” she said, referring to the dangerous 麻薬, which she was told to 'snort' but would instead “put it in cranberry juice.”
“And they were still 説, "Your butt's too big. Your 脚s are too big,"' she 解任するd Friday. 'And I now look 支援する at those pictures and go, "I was a freaking goddess."' Burke, who was 指名するd for two Emmy Awards for 優れた Lead Actress in a Comedy Series during her time on the show, is s een here at the awards in 1990 with husband Gerald McRaney
生産者s and co-星／主役にするs in the 攻撃する，衝突する 支援する at the actress's workplace （人命などを）奪う，主張するs in 1992, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing her husband was the one responsible. Burke is seen the に引き続いて years on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
Burke made her debut in Designing Women in 1986, a show that charted the ups and 負かす／撃墜するs of four southern women making their way through 堅い times whilst 追求するing their dreams as high 力／強力にするd 内部の designers.?
However, over, the course of her five seasons, she fell out with her show's bosses, 原因（となる）ing a 動かす in 1990 by complaining to 60 Minutes' Walters the 始める，決める had become a 'difficult, unpleasant workplace'.?
Within months, bosses 解雇する／砲火／射撃d and 取って代わるd her, doing away with her beloved, unabashed character.
Delta went on to 二塁打 負かす／撃墜する about her bad time on the show and （人命などを）奪う，主張するd she had been いじめ（る）d over her 負わせる and 支配するd to 'psychological 乱用'.?
生産者s and co-星／主役にするs in the 攻撃する，衝突する 支援する at the actress's workplace （人命などを）奪う，主張するs in 1992, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing her husband was the one responsible.?
生産者 Doug Jackson told TV Guide at the time: 'すぐに after Delta started dating Gerald, there was a 示すd change in her 関係 with all of us.
One 生産者 told TV Guide at the time: 'すぐに after Delta started dating Gerald, there was a 示すd change in her 関係 with all of us. Burke and longtime husband Gerald McRaney, both actors, have been married since May 1989,
Both have long kept out of the public 注目する，もくろむ. They live in LA and have no children together
On Friday, after only 存在 seen at the occasion red carpet event, she 厳しく 警告するd , 'Hollywood will mess your 長，率いる up'
'She was a fun, kicky girl at the start. After Gerald （機の）カム on the scene, she （機の）カム on the 始める，決める one day to 発表する to the cast, 'Gerald says I am the 星／主役にする of the show and I should be boss'.'?
Besides her 役割 on Designing Women, Delta has gone on to 星／主役にする in さまざまな shows, plays and movies such as a cameo in Mel Gibson's What Women Want in 2000.?
Other 外見s 含む TV series Dolly Parton's Heartstrings (2019), Any Day Now (1998-1999), Boston 合法的な (2007) and Touched By An Angel (1996-2001.)?
On Friday, after only 存在 seen at the occasion red carpet event, she 厳しく 警告するd, 'Hollywood will mess your 長，率いる up. And I had always thought, "I want to be a famous actress."?'I thought that meant that you would be a famous and 井戸／弁護士席-尊敬（する）・点d actress, but that's not what it meant.?
And the moment I became famous, it was like, "Oh no, no, no. This is not what I had in mind at all. I don't think I want to be this anymore." But then it's too late.'
