LOS ANGELES - For the first time since entering a psychiatric hospital in January, Delta Burke is speaking out about her depression, saying she remembered having anxiety as early as kindergarten.
In a two-part Entertainment Tonight interview airing tonight and Friday, Burke said she needed an adjustment under a physician's care after the five medications she was taking no longer worked.
Now she's on two medications.
By coming forward, Burke hopes to help remove the stigma surrounding depression. Burke said she'd like people to pursue mental help the same way they might with another illness.
Burke's depression has at times been debilitating. One of her lowest moments came while she was starring in the long-running series Designing Women.
She recalls she was parked in the car in the hills with a gun and a bottle of Xanax beside her, trying to recover from harsh words about her the tabloids.
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