The “Stop the Insanity!” infomercial star exclusively tells EW she doesn’t date anymore “because that’s annoying as crap.“

‘90s fitness icon Susan Powter is a ‘total lesbian’: ‘I don’t think most women should meet a man’ (exclusive)

The "Stop the Insanity!" infomercial star exclusively tells EW she doesn't date anymore "because that’s annoying as crap."

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- Susan Powter exclusively reflects on her love life in an interview with EW.

- Powter is now a "total lesbian," she says, but doesn't date "because that’s annoying as crap."

- "I never want to live with anyone," the *Stop the Insanity! *'90s* *infomercial star adds.

For famed '90s infomercial star Susan Powter, part of stopping the insanity meant purging her life of toxic men.

Over 30 years after she splashed onto the pop culture scene with her iconic weight-loss VHS tape *Stop the Insanity!* — which even earned its own Kirstie Alley-starring spoof on *Saturday Night Live* — Powter, now a driver for Uber Eats, exclusively gives * *an update on her personal life following the downfall of her media empire.**

“I’m not friends with anyone. I have two friends of over 30 years," Powter tells EW between bites at one of her favorite restaurants in Las Vegas, where the 67-year-old now lives in a small apartment and works as a food delivery driver.

“I’m a very isolated person. I’m a hermit," Powter, who was previously married to a man and has three adult sons, adds. She also admits, "I don’t date anymore, because that’s annoying as crap," and she has "no interest in ever getting married again" after a pair of past marriages to men ended in divorce.**

Susan Powter of 'Stop the Insanity' infomercial fame

"Now I’m a huge lesbian. Total lesbian, great love affairs, many girlfriends, big fun," Powter says with a smile. "Best fun ever!"

Still, her last relationship was "years ago," she recalls, adding, "I never want to live with anyone" again.

“I like very large groups. I don’t socialize, I don’t have friend groups, I don’t socialize with anyone. I see my children once in a while, they’re adult men," she says of her three sons, two of which were born in 1983 and 1984, and the third she adopted in 1998.

Powter says that she doesn't "celebrate holidays" and lives a "very private" life, and even declined production's initial attempts to film parts of her daily life for the new Jamie Lee Curtis-produced *Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter* documentary.

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The film, now playing in select theaters, includes a scene where Powter also discusses her sexuality as she sifts through a box of old trinkets and memorabilia from the height of her fame in the early 1990s. Before, as she recounts in the film, what she calls shady business dealings and a lack of connection to her own finances led to the loss of an estimated $300 million fortune and a media brand that included books, exercise videos, and even her own short-lived talk show.

As Powter rummages through her collection, she finds a VHS recording of *The Susan Powter Show*, and balks at the episode title, "How to Meet a Man."

"I'd like to see the segment, because I'd never do a segment like that. I'd never talk about that. I don't care if you meet a man, and I don't think most women should meet a man," Powter tells the documentary crew.

The film then cuts to a shot from the talk show, in which Powter exclaims, "There's so many ways to meet a man, but what's the best way?" before a later clip sees her asking the audience, "If you don't want to go and do whatever you had to do in the past in the '80s, like go to a disco and listen to Donna Summer all night — although I love Donna Summer, I love her — but, if you're not willing to do that, how do you meet a man in the '90s?"

Back in her apartment in the present day, Powter asks the camera, "You want my opinion on it now? Lesbian, all the way!"

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In a prior interview with EW, Curtis explained that the documentary about Powter's current life is "an indictment of how we discard human beings as they get older in this country," and serves as "an exploration of the incredible cruelty that we inflict on older people and the lack of resources, and the lack of dignity offered to these human beings who've lived before us and have been in service to us and have given us the lives we all are now living."

*Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter* is now playing in select theaters.**

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