Susan Powter gets fully transparent about her struggles on welfare in her new documentary, Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter. The film, which hit select theaters on Wednesday, November 19, shines a light on "fitness queen" Powter's public disappearance after she lost her wellness empire and declared bankruptcy in the mid-'90s. The documentary, produced by Jamie Lee Curtis, follows the now 67-year-old as she details her job as an Uber Eats driver and recalls her days living in a weekly welfare hotel while struggling to make ends meet. Powter rose to fame in the early '90s for her Stop the Insanity! infomercials, inspired by her personal story of being a housewife and mother who gained weight after a contentious divorce. Fans would call in to pay $79.80 for her program of workout tips and and natural food recipes, garnering a level of success that spawned three best-selling books, a TV show and more. According to Powter, she amassed nearly $200 million in profit before a series of bad business deals and lawsuits left her in financial ruin. By 2018, she was on welfare and living in a weekly welfare hotel in Las Vegas before securing a job working for Uber. Who Is Susan Powter? 5 Things to Know About the '90s Fitness Instructor "People don't know. I don't see one penny, where's it going?" Powter recalls in the documentary. "I never said, 'Show me the damn bank balance.' I should've." While speaking to People earlier this month, Powter said that she's not looking for a "big fancy-schmany life," but simply one where she's able to afford the basic necessities.. "I want insurance, I want a credit card, I want to pay my bills," she shared with the outlet. "I want a dentist. But if it does happen, it's going to be well-managed. It's going to go to my kids and to me. I want to give my children back what should have been theirs." Keep scrolling for the biggest revelations from Powter's Stop the Insanity documentary: Getting Her Start Powter explains in the doc that after her divorce from ex-husband Nic Villarreal, she "ate and ate and ate," "nursed" her two eldest sons, Kiel and Damien, and "plotted his death." After gaining more than 100 pounds, she transformed her life, becoming a "fitness queen" in the process. (Powter tied the knot with Villarreal in 1982, but they divorced in 1988 following his affair with another woman. She later was married to Lincoln Apeland in 1989 to 1995, and they welcomed one son together, Gabriel. She came out publicly as a lesbian in 2004.) Her infomercial, Stop the Insanity, skyrocketed to No. 1 in 1993, which led to her talk show, The Susan Powter Show, and a best-selling book, Stop the Insanity! She reportedly raked in close to $200 million in profits before things took a turn for the worse. "I was incredibly hopeful, excited, had no idea the hardest years of my life were ahead of me," she says in the doc. Filing for Bankruptcy After Powter teamed up with Dallas publicity representative Rusty Robertson in 1990, the women created the idea for Powter's "Stop the Insanity!" infomercials. Powter claims in the doc that she happily agreed to split her earnings with her business partners 50/50. "It was equality, I was rallying for the team," she explains. She alleges that out of her 50 percent, 25 percent was used to pay other people working for her. The remaining 25 percent was then used to pay for "everything" else, from meals to hotels, something Powter claims she "didn't know for the whole of the success." Powter then found herself in a massive lawsuit with business partner and president of the Susan Powter Corporation, Jerry Frankel, after she tried to change the percentages of income. The corporation sued Poweter for breach of contract, and she filed a counter lawsuit against the Frankels and the corporation, a feat that ultimately cost her $6.5 million and led to her declaring bankruptcy in 1995. Ultimately, Powter claims that she didn't "ever" see the millions she reportedly made, and that her salary at the "max height" of her fame was around $200,000. The end of the documentary reveals that Roberston declined to participate in the doc, while Frankel died in 2018. Delivering for Uber Eats Obscured Pictures Power moved to Las Vegas in 2016, taking any job she could to get by before she was hired by Uber Eats. "There isn't a job I haven't done in the past 10 years," she tells the cameras while out on a delivery. "I was thrilled to get a job with Uber Eats." Living in a Welfare Hotel Power reveals that she was forced to move into a weekly welfare hotel called Harbor Island, just a few blocks from the Las Vegas strip, when she was at her financial bottom. She shares that she would walk up to "20 miles a day" to get from place to place, to the point where her flip flops would melt from the heat of the pavement. Calling the hotel "horrifyingly sad," she notes in the doc that she would watch people "lose their minds, people pooing outside your door, banging at 3 in the morning." She re