Susan Powter gets extremely candid about her decades of financial problems in the 2025 documentary Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter.

The former fitness guru went from starring in iconic early 1990s exercise infomercials and hosting her own syndicated daytime talk show to walking away from Hollywood entirely in the span of a few years. A divorce from her second husband, Lincoln Apeland, at the height of her mid-‘90s financial troubles left Powter with nearly nothing as she tried to rebuild her life in Seattle, Washington.

In the years since she retreated from the spotlight, Powter worked as a delivery driver for Uber Eats and Grubhub to support herself and lived sporadically in welfare hotels.

“I’ve known desperation,” she told People in 2024. “Desperation is walking back from the

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