Susan Powter

“I had to go to the welfare office, which I’m fortunate enough never to have had to go [to before] — and it’s not in any way a judgment or criticism,” she assured the audience. “That in and of itself was a horrifying day.”

“I’ve literally died a thousand deaths delivering Sonic burgers. I’m not kidding,” she said – instantly connecting with the audience at the festival venue as if she had never stopped doing her TV show. “I’ve wept, but I’m allowed to feel it. I’m allowed to be afraid. I’m allowed to feel like I’m going to die. I’m allowed to feel like the biggest loser on the planet Earth. And then you know what? You get up the next day and you go out there and that’s it. So it’s rage. You are allowed to be enraged. I didn’t heal. I’m not full of love and joy. I’m enraged and full of love and joy.”

Moderating the Q&A on behalf of Deadline, I told Powter I thought it took bravery to speak so openly in the documentary about her struggles. She waved away that assessment.

“People say, ‘It’s courageous.’ I’m not courageous,” she insisted. “The only reason I’m not dead is because I wasn’t going to go down like that. As a woman, as a single mother, I wasn’t going down as a victim.”

Stop the insanity, M.F.!

R2 This thread is about her documentary.

She reminds of another flash-in-the-pan, Jackie Warner, the lesbian who owned fitness centers and had a Bravo reality show for a while, then just seemed to disappear.

Whatever happened to her?

How did she lose all of her money? She was huge back in the day!

"Susan Powter lost her multimillion-dollar fitness empire primarily due to financial mismanagement. Her financial advisors, manager, and business partners were responsible for the mismanagement of her funds. This led to bankruptcy in 1995, despite her company's substantial profits. She later struggled to make ends meet, even working as a food delivery driver."

[quote]“I’ve literally died a thousand deaths

Then why are you still here?

I guess she means 'emotional' deaths.

Apparently DL's own Jamie Lee Curtis helped get the documentary to happen, shocking Powter, and imbuing her with a sense of worth and meaning that she'd completely given up on ever experiencing again.

Makes me like Jamie Lee even more than I already did, despite you ladies and your seething and hissing.

I trust Christopher Guest's taste in women. He would not tolerate anything less than an intelligent funny, classy, loyal, caring and authentic wife. He's next level, one of the greats.

I bet R9 is also the anti-Cher troll.

There is an anti-Cher troll? What? Who? Wha?

No idea what you're talking about.

Sorry, I'm R9, and the post above was for R10.

What I meant to say was I’m R9 and R11 but not R10 😵‍💫

This looks interesting.

I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that somehow JLC stuck her ass in this project, too.

Strange. Now you see her now you don’t. I can see losing everything but it seemed so fast.

She always seemed a bit off mentally.

She's probably bipolar and went on wild spending sprees, blowing her cash during what were probably frequent manic episodes.

I’ve always liked her. She had common sense e

Her recent memoir is really upsetting. I have to hand it to her for being so honest and raw.