Delta Burke describes herself as a “world-class shopper.” Best known for her role as former beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker on the long-running sitcom Designing Women, Delta admits that acquiring things, all kinds of things, is one of her guiltiest pleasures. “I have collections of antique quilts, vintage lockets, stiletto-heeled shoes, wide-brimmed hats, old fabrics, Victorian jewelry — even antique clothing patterns,” she wrote in her 1998 memoir, Delta Style. “It’s a habit I’m working to curtail.”

But while “curtailing” didn’t prove easy, few knew how dangerous Delta’s habit had become before this past February, when news broke that the 51-year-old star had checked herself into a psychiatric clinic for help with severe depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and hoarding. “Have you seen those shows where they don’t find the body for days? And they go in to clean up, and it’s stacks of newspapers up to the ceiling?” Delta said in a candid interview with TMZ. “That’s hoarding, and I hate it.”

The Emmy-nominated actress also admitted that her weakness for shopping sprees on eBay and QVC had led her to fill 27 storage units in her adopted hometown of New Orleans. “It rules my life,” Delta confessed. “I don’t understand why I do it and I hate living like that, and all it does is make [my] depression worse.”

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