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On May 7, 1999, Plato appeared on The Howard Stern Show, where she told Stern and Robin Quivers that she was engaged to 28-year-old Robert Menchaca, and that he was managing her career.

She was frank about her life, discussing her financial problems and past run-ins with the law.

She admitted to being a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, but claimed that she had been sober for more than ten years by that point, and was not using any drugs, with the exception of prescribed painkillers due to discomfort and pain from the recent extraction of her wisdom teeth.

Many of her callers called her everything, from a " has-been " to an addict.

She was referred to by one caller as an " ex-con lesbian drug addict with mental problems ".

This provoked a defiant Plato, as she offered to take a drug test on the air ( and even placed a large wager on the results of the test to one particularly doubtful caller ).

Some callers, as well as Stern, came to Plato's defense by consoling and complimenting her.