Before his fame in the fitness industry consolidated, Susan Power she lived in Dallas, where she arranged family life with her then-husband Nic Villarreal. It was in that context that the episode you recalled during the interview occurred Entertainment Weeklyabout a direct confrontation with a customer at her ex-husband’s restaurant. Powter explained that she was outside the venue while breastfeeding: “I was on the terrace, covered with a cotton diaper“. He added that he behaved “in a very respectful manner”until a man sitting nearby, eating a steak, turned to him and said, “That’s disgusting. Go to the bathroom and do that.”
Powter said he immediately responded to the statement, “You go, go to the bathroom,” and I squirted breast milk on him at my husband’s restaurant. He also said “no one supports me, so I poured milk on him and his stupid steak“.
During the interview, Powter also reflected on the next phase of his career, marked by the loss of his business, which was once capable of generating $50 million in sales annually. In a previous conversation with PEOPLEhas described the economic and personal hardships experienced over the years: “I know despair“, explaining his move to a low-income retirement community and observing that “despair walking back from the social welfare office. It’s the shock of, “From there, now I’m here? How is this possible?””.
Despite gaining huge media exposure in the 1990s — imitation al Saturday Night Broadcastwas among the “Most Interesting People” of 1993 and a number of successful publications — Powter explained that the trade agreements made at that time turned out to be detrimentaluntil it went bankrupt in 1995. In his words, “in the 90s there were only lawsuits“Her recent participation in the documentary Stop the Madness: Finding Susan Powter, proposed by Zeberiah Newman and endorsed by Jamie Lee Curtis, represents a possible restart for her.
