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&34;He was cutting a steak, and turned and said, 'That's disgusting. Go to the bathroom and do that,'&34; Powter recalls to EW. Stop the Insanity icon Susan Powter once squirted her breast milk on man who shamed her at restaurant (exclusive) &34;He was cutting a steak, and turned and said, 'That's disgusting. Go to the bathroom and do that,'&34; Powter recalls to EW. :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/JoeyNolfiauthorphotoba4923fec03a4027868306485696ef41.jpg) Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at . Since 2016, his work at EW includes RuPaul's Drag Race video interviews, Oscars predictions, and more.

"He was cutting a steak, and turned and said, 'That's disgusting. Go to the bathroom and do that,'" Powter recalls to EW.

Stop the Insanity icon Susan Powter once squirted her breast milk on man who shamed her at restaurant (exclusive)

"He was cutting a steak, and turned and said, 'That's disgusting. Go to the bathroom and do that,'" Powter recalls to EW.

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- Susan Powter tells EW why she once squirted her breast milk onto a man at a restaurant.

- "I'd just birthed a 10-pound baby," Powter recalls.

- The *Stop the Insanity! *health and wellness icon stars in a new documentary produced by Jamie Lee Curtis.

When Susan Powter says to "stop the insanity," you'd better listen — and that includes anyone thinking about shaming a person for breastfeeding in public.

In an exclusive interview with ** in her home base of Las Vegas, the '90s health and wellness figure — perhaps best known for 1992's *Stop the Insanity!* weight-loss infomercial — reflects on her life and career, including how she handled disrespectful men as a new mom before she became famous.

"It was 1983, I'd just birthed a 10-pound baby," Powter recalls of her life before fame, when she was still living in Dallas, Tex., still married to a man, and still living a straight lifestyle (she would later come out as a lesbian).

Powter, now 67 and starring in her *Stop the Insanity: Finding Susan Powter* documentary, recalls that she was still in the breastfeeding phase of caring for her son, and, one night, while waiting for her husband to get off of work at a restaurant, she had a tense encounter with a patron.

Susan Powter and 'Finding Susan Powter' documentary producer Jamie Lee Curtis.

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"I was on the patio, covering with a cotton diaper," Powter says of the moment she decided to breastfeed her son. "I was being very respectful. A man eating a steak, he was cutting a steak, and turned and said, 'That's disgusting. Go to the bathroom and do that.'"

Powter says she turned toward him and clapped back. "[I said] 'You go to the toilet,' and I squirted breast milk at him in my husband's restaurant," remembers Powter. "Nobody supported me, so I squirted breast milk at him and his stupid steak."

The moment recalls a similar instance outlined in the Jamie Lee Curtis-produced *Finding Susan Powter* doc, which charts Powter's current life in Nevada, where she sustains herself with a low-paying gig as an Uber Eats driver after shady business deals and what she labels a dishonest team around her led to the loss of a nearly $300 million fortune.

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In the film, she remembers meeting with Jerry Frankel, the late Broadway producer who formed a business deal with her to start the Susan Powter Corporation in the early '90s, with Powter owning 50 percent and Frankel (and his brother, Richard) owning the other half. She says she called a meeting to discuss changing the percentage points, and that, Powter remembered, angered Jerry.

"Before I got the sentence out, he put his finger in my face and he said, 'I own you. If you choose to teach piano lessons for the rest of your life? I own 50 percent,'" Powter recalls in the film of the alleged interaction that precipitated her filing for bankruptcy. "What I said to him, before he finished that sentence, was, 'Get your f---ing finger out of my face before I bite it off.' Never saw him again, except in court."

Elsewhere in her interview with EW earlier this year, Powter recalls the route her career could've taken, after she became a pop culture staple throughout the '90s thanks to the overwhelming success of the* Stop the Insanity!* infomercial.

In addition to roles on *The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air*, interviews on *The Tonight Show*, and even a *Saturday Night Live* parody by actress Kirstie Alley, Powter reveals that Kevin Costner even offered her a role in his 1995 blockbuster flop *Waterworld*, which she turned down — much to the dismay of her agent, at the time.

Powter also tells EW that one of the most painful moments she experienced in this new chapter of her life came when she delivered a meal to actor Louie Anderson shortly before he died.

"This got me, because, back in the day, we knew each other. I ring the doorbell of this big order, and Louie Anderson opens the door — and he *knew* who I was. He looked right at me and he knew. And I knew he knew," Powter remembers through tears. "He had just had that huge resurrection with that show [*Baskets*] he did. He did such a good job. He was such a nice man."

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In a separate interview with EW, Curtis previously called her new documentary about Powter a critique of societal behaviors.

"It was an indictment of how we discard human beings as they get older in this country. It's 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," Curtis said in the October 2024 conversation. "It's an indictment to every family who has shuttered away the elderly in that forgotten, awful way that they do. It is an indictment of how we treat older people in our work lives."

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

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