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Delta Burke Talks About ‘Designing Women’ And Her Drug Abuse Struggles


The former TV star opened up about her struggles and drug abuse.

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. Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, and Jean Smart were the main players of Designing Women, which ran for seven seasons on CBS. You snort.’ I said, ‘I don’t want to snort it.’ So I put it in cranberry juice and [drank] it… and wouldn’t eat for five days, and they were still saying, ‘Your butt’s too big.

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