How a ’90s fitness guru ended up becoming a food delivery driver after losing his multimillion-dollar empire.

A ’90s fitness guru who once had a multimillion-dollar empire became a food delivery driver to make ends meet.

Susan Powter, now 66, rose to fame three decades ago as a nutritionist, personal trainer and motivational speaker, earning $50 million a year, but almost all her money disappeared after her finances were seriously dismantled.

The fitness guru now calls the homes of low-income seniors in Las Vegas and gets two free meals a week, Power said. People.

After selling his iconic fitness program “Stop the Madness!” for $79.80 in the ’90s and earning millions of dollars annually, Power filed for bankruptcy in 1995.

Although she still has funds left, Power said she has no control over the situation as it has been taken over by financial advisors, business partners and her managers.

“I have known despair. Despair returns from the Social Security office. It’s a shock: “From there, now I’m here? How, in the name of God?” she told the publication.

She admitted she “never checked the balance” on her account and regrets not taking control of her hard-earned money.

– I had to ask a question. I fully admit this. I made a mistake.

“I knew how much control I had lost. I didn’t know what they paid for or where, but I didn’t have any property. There is no money left for my children,” Powter said.

Shortly before losing almost all of her fortune, Powter appeared on a syndicated television show that she called “total crap.”

“They put me in pearls. They made me into “me.” These parts — I can’t even watch them now,” she said.

She then made the decision to leave the fitness industry, which led her to a new career path while focusing on becoming a mother.

“I taught in the basement of an elementary school, photographed home births underwater, drove my little Volkswagen Bug with my baby, just being a mother.

“I’m a very simple hippie girl,” Power said.

By 2018, Powter admitted that her life had become “scary as hell” as she became an UberEats and GrubHub driver to earn at least $80 a day so she could eat and pay rent.

“It’s so hard. This is terribly shocking. If sadness could kill you, I would be dead,” she told People magazine.

Last year she had health problems and had to apply for a Social Security check.

“That $1,500 check shocked the hell out of me,” she shared.

“Whoever said that money cannot buy happiness lied. Liar. This was not happiness. It was more than happiness. I took my deepest breath. And this is not just a story of “you used to have millions, but now you don’t.” This is a very real thing that many, many women go through.”

She now “obsessively” saves her money and spends it sparingly.

“I don’t spend money. I don’t go anywhere. I don’t eat out. These are the sweatpants I wear all the time. Seven dollars on Amazon,” she told the publication.

Although she had struggled financially for so long, Powter initially decided to keep it a secret from her family until she wrote a book about her journey this year.

After reading her novel “And Then They Died… Stop the Madness!” Memoirs,” her sons told their mother that they had no idea what she had been through.

Powter has since been given the opportunity to tell her story on the big screen after director Zeberiah Newman contacted her and asked if he could create a documentary about her journey.

After years of feeling that society had forgotten about her, Powter said, “I never thought it was possible” in regards to Newman’s request.

She told the publication: “I learned that women are invisible and priceless after a certain age. It’s usually pretty darn old.”

Shortly after approaching Powter about the documentary proposal, Newman decided to contact one of the biggest movie stars and his good friend, Jamie Lee Curtis.

“She (Curtis) called me within two minutes, and the next day she said, ‘Go back to Vegas and start filming right away,’” Newman recalls.

The 66-year-old Freaky Friday star has since become an executive producer of the upcoming documentary Stop the Madness: The Search for Susan Power.

“As one of the world’s first influencers at the beginning of what we now call the social media era, Susan Powter was brazen and brave and woke us all up,” Curtis told the publication.

“Like so many women’s stories, Susan’s strength and light were diminished, denigrated and rejected.”

Power met the actress just a few months ago when they posed for a photo together.

“I was in tears. And I said, “Thank you. Thank you for believing in me. I’ve lost my faith. I have lost complete and utter hope,” Power said.

Newman said he decided to tell Powter’s story because he believes it can inspire other women who feel they have been forgotten as they age.

“Anybody who felt frustrated that the system wasn’t working for them, connected with it, felt seen by it,” he explained.

Speaking about the growth he’s already seen in Powter, Newman added: “She’s blossoming as a person, not as a celebrity or a thing in the world, as just a person. It’s truly incredible to watch her regain her strength.”

Having rediscovered her voice and given herself a second chance at a career, Power now plans to tour the country in an RV to sell her self-published book and talk to people facing similar issues.

“These women will hear my voice and say, ‘Well, damn, she hasn’t changed one bit,'” she said.

“What I feel now is the possibility of opportunity. There were days and days and months and months and years when I didn’t feel it.

“I lost hope, but now I’m full of it. I’ve never been so excited.”