Susan Powerer lost his multi-million dollar fitness empire when his finances were mismanaged.

The ’90s fitness guru said she turned to food delivery for GrubHub and Uber Eats to make ends meet.

“I experienced despair,” Powter told People magazine. “The despair is coming back from the welfare office. It’s the shock of saying, ‘From there, now I’m here? What in God’s name?'”

Powter, 66, lives in a low-income senior community and receives two free meals a week, according to the outlet.

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Fitness guru Susan Powter attends the fifth annual Caring for Babies with AIDS Stroll-A-Thon on November 12, 1995, at Roxbury Park in Beverly Hills, California. (Getty Images/Getty Images)

In the 90s, Powter sold his fitness program called “Stop the madness!” for $79.80.

The program included audio cassettes, recipes and other tips for losing weight. After selling $50 million in products a year, Powter declared bankruptcy in 1995.

At the time, she still had money, but she didn’t know that the money was being mismanaged.

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“Someone else took care of it. I never checked the balances,” Powter told the outlet. “I should have questioned it. I fully admit that. I made a mistake.

“I knew how much control I had given up,” she added. “I didn’t know what was paid where, but I had no property. There was no money left for my children.

“I didn’t think there would ever be another book or video. I never worked. I never thought I couldn’t make a living. But try getting a job as a as a 60 year old woman.

Susan Powter says she’s “desperate” when it comes to money problems. (Getty Images/Getty Images)

Powter’s life became “scary as fuck” in 2018. She started driving for Uber Eats and GrubHub, hoping to earn at least $80 a day to pay her bills and rent.

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

Despite Powter’s financial difficulties, she hid it from her family. However, she talked about it in her book “And Then Em Died… Stop the Insanity! A Memoir.”

“My sons read my book and they said to me, ‘Mom, we didn’t know.'”

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Before his financial downfall, Powter had a syndicated television show.

The show was “completely rubbish,” she said. “They put me in pearls. They made me a ‘me’. Those segments – I can’t even watch them now.”

She eventually left the fitness empire.

“I was teaching in the basement of an elementary school, photographing underwater home births, driving my little Volkswagen Bug with my baby, just being a mother,” she said. “I’m a very basic hippie girl.”

Powter started driving for Uber Eats and GrubHub in 2018 after he said life became “scary as fuck.” (Getty Images/Getty Images)

Powter experienced a health problem in 2023 that led her to apply for social security.

“That $1,500 check completely shocked me,” she told People. “Whoever said money can’t buy happiness lied. Liar. It wasn’t happiness. It was greater than happiness. I took a deep breath. And it’s not just ‘you used to have millions and now you don’t’. It’s a very real story that many women experience.

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She began saving “obsessively.”

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