Eurovision host Malin Akerman might be a familiar face to some - and it's not surprising why. The actress is making her Eurovision debut as she co-hosts the Song Contest alongside presenter Petra Mede this year.
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Delta Burke was once addicted to crystal meth as a way to lose weight.
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.
“It got ugly and very sad,” said Burke. She worked with Bloodworth-Thomason on the sitcom Filthy Rich before Designing Women, and claimed she viewed her as a mentor.
“We do Designing Women, and I’m so happy to be there,” she said. “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 added, “and I wasn’t allowed to leave. I don’t know what would have happened to me if I had been allowed to leave. 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. I’m very thankful for everything that she’s done for me, but there’s other issues,” she said. “Basically we tried to kill each other, but you know, we survived.”
Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, and Jean Smart were the main players of Designing Women, which ran for seven seasons on CBS. Burke left at the end of season 5 in 1991.
At the time, she claimed psychological abuse by Bloodworth-Thomason and her husband, Harry Thomason, an executive producer on the show. She said that Bloodworth-Thomason pressured her to lose weight. Meanwhile, the Thomasons blamed Burke’s husband, Major Dad star Gerald McRaney, for the falling-out. She changed after she began dating him, they claimed.
Burke struggled with her weight throughout her TV career. She began with pills, which she
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