Delta Burke Opens Up About Ugly and Very Sad Exit from ‘Designing Women’ [Video]

For the first time in more than a decade, Delta Burke is opening up about her years on one of TV’s most beloved sitcoms.

The Designing Women star, 67, appeared on the Glamorous Trash podcast with Chelsea Devantez on April 19 and discussed her five-season run on the hit show, as well as her 1998 memoir, Delta Style: Eve Wasn’t a Size 6 and Neither Am I.

Burke exited Designing Women in 1991, reportedly over a high-profile disagreement with the show’s creator, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, whom she claimed had psychologically abused her, along with Bloodworth-Thomason’s husband, Harry Thomason.

“It got ugly and very sad,” she told Devantez of how the dream TV role went downhill with time.

“We do Designing Women, and 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, that I simply couldn’t cope with,” Burke continued of the show, in which she …