Delta Burke Admits to Using Crystal Meth for Weight Loss

Burke told podcaster Chelsea Devantez that in London she had been prescribed pills called ‘black beauties’ that ‘made my heart beat faster’.

She said the pills had helped her lose weight, but she couldn’t get them in America because they were “illegal.” Then she turned to a drug dealer, but said it “wasn’t recreational.”

When the ‘black beauties’ were no longer effective as she ‘built up a tolerance’, the actress revealed she had been prescribed crystal meth.

She remembered mixing the meth in cranberry juice and drinking it before going to work filthy rich, and said she “wouldn’t eat for five days.”

“And they still said, ‘Your ass is too big. Your legs are too big,” Burke continued, “and I look back at those pictures now and say, ‘I was a fucking goddess.’

The sitcom star said the “ugliness” of the press ultimately led her to “remove herself from public life.”

“They treat serial killers more kindly than when you gain weight,” she said.

“Then I gained weight and things got incredibly ugly,” Burke recalls. She became “too emotionally fragile to deal with the industry,” calling it a “double-edged sword.”

“I had everything I ever wanted. Lots of money, great people to work with. But the downside was it kills you,” she said.

“One day it was suddenly like the joy of acting left me,” she said, adding that she was “stunned.”

Burke’s husband of 34 years, Gerald McRaney was nearby during the interview and said his wife had “beautiful curves.”

The actress said her husband’s support helped her through the difficult period. They moved from Los Angeles and live in Orlando, Florida.

Burke and McRaney met on the set of Women designwhich earned the actress two Emmy nominations.

She went on to appear in hit series like Women of the House And The Love boat and played along Mel Gibson in the 2000 film What women want.

Burke also had a starring role in the 1985 film A rabbit story work with Kirstie Alleyanother star who was open about having her weight scrutinized.

In her 1998 memoir and style guide for women, Delta style: Eve wasn’t a size 6 and neither was I, Burke opened up about her struggles with weight loss and self-esteem.

She continued Glamorous junk that she thinks the entertainment business exists today “much more acceptance of size” than it once was.