Delta Burkeis looking back at her contentious 1991 departure fromDesigning Women.
“We doDesigning Women,and I’m so happy to be there,” she said.
“I love everything.
Delta Burke.Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic
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 don’t know what would have happened to me if I had been allowed to leave.
Annie Potts (as Mary Jo Shively), Dixie Carter (as Julia Sugarbaker), Jean Smart (as Charlene Frazier Stillfield), and Delta Burke (as Suzanne Sugarbaker) in ‘Designing Women’.CBS via Getty
Staying gave me an amazing character to get to play… and I loved it, how she evolved.
I had that even though it could be difficult sometimes."
Burke called her relationship with Bloodworth-Thomason a “love-hate” one.
“Basically we tried to kill each other, but you know, we survived.”
Burke left at the end of season 5 in 1991.
HerFilthy Richco-worker then suggested something stronger.
“Nobody knew about crystal meth at the time,” she said on the podcast.
“[They told me,] ‘You chop it up.
I said, ‘I don’t want to snort it.’
Your legs are too big.’
And I now look back at those pictures and go, ‘I was a freaking goddess.'”
“Whatever went down that was bad, it was worth because I met him.
No one had ever loved me completely for me, not even my mother or grandmother.
They would judge what I looked like.
He never did.”
“It got too ugly.
And all of a sudden, one day, it was like the joy of acting left me.
It had been ruined by the ugliness that goes, unfortunately, with a lot of the business.
I just withdrew from the work because the joy was not there anymore.”
