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Designing Women’s Delta Burke Reveals She Turned to Using Crystal Meth for Weight Loss


Designing Women alum Delta Burke revealed she turned to using crystal meth to lose weight, going up to five days without eating while taking the drug.

Actress Delta Burke has been open about her battles with weight over the years, but she shocked fans by revealing she turned to using crystal meth in the 1980s after other methods didn’t work. She would “take them in the morning so you won’t eat,” adding, “They were like medicine to me.” After Delta built up a tolerance to the pills, someone on Filthy Rich suggested she try methamphetamine for weight loss. I don’t have any power,” the former Miss Florida 1974 explained, adding there was one time “on the set, when it got to be really bad, and I wasn’t handling it well with a smiling face, my whole body language changed.

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