In her first interview in a decade, 'Designing Women' star Delta Burke looks back at her 'ugly' exit from the show and past meth use for weight loss: It was 'like medicine.'
The actress behind Suzanne Sugarbaker gets candid about her fallout with series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and past drug use in a rare interview.Jessica is a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly, where she covers TV, movies, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in Bustle, NYLON, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, and more. She lives in California with her dog.
"It got ugly and very sad," the Emmy nominee — beloved for her role as former beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker on the hit sitcom — says in a rare interview with Chelsea Devantez on herand I'm so happy to be there. 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 adds, "and I wasn't allowed to leave.
Burke calls her relationship with Bloodworth-Thomason a "love-hate" one. "I'm very thankful for everything that she's done for me, but there's other issues," she says. "Basically we tried to kill each other, but you know, we survived.") who run a design firm in Atlanta — ran for seven seasons on CBS. Burke left at the end of season 5 in 1991.
Though she would take occasional roles, for the most part she stepped away from Hollywood — rarely making public appearances or doing interviews like today's. "You kind of go along with these work schedules where one of you is out of town for months at a time or whatever. You're going along working and then finally it just got too much for me," says Burke, who now lives in Florida with McRaney. "It got too ugly.
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