That’s why he disappeared.”Īccording to Simmons himself, though, he never disappeared. He wanted to be remembered as a guy that millions of people loved and watched. He had it and then let it go.”Īccording to the doc, Simmons’s longtime housekeeper remains his “fiercely loyal employee and friend.” A Los Angeles Police Department detective, who remains anonymous but claims to have talked to Simmons in recent years, says in the film that the eccentric fitness instructor “doesn’t want to be remembered as this frail, old guy. But doesn’t that show you he’s got a heartache? Something’s broken inside because he did it.
I was always so surprised when he thought I’d make fun of him.
“But that’s when I realized a little insecurity has gotten in there. I never make fun of anybody,” Somers says. In the film, Somers recalls an incident where she and Simmons were both supposed to be on the Larry King Show together, but she heard that Simmons opted out because he was afraid that the actor would “make fun of me.” The doc highlights other factors as well, like the death of Simmons’s eight dalmatians, the last one at 17 years old. What Really Happened to Richard Simmons includes interviews with fitness instructor Denise Austin, Three’s Company star Suzanne Somers, comedian and friend Bruce Vilanch, and Simmons’s longtime costume designer Leslie Wilshire. “He walks with a cane and that explains a lot. We know still, to this day, Richard still hasn’t gotten corrective surgery on his left knee,” the doc alleges. “He had a right knee replacement a few years back. According to the doc, the operation on his right knee was so painful that he allegedly delayed replacing his left knee and seemingly opted to never get surgery. Per TMZ, Simmons’s knee troubles first made headlines in 2014. The prospect of surgery, of becoming sedentary, caused Richard to sink into a deep depression.” A representative for Simmons told Vanity Fair they had no comment. Now, this is key to the disappearance of Richard Simmons. “And if he didn’t get one, he might never be able to exercise again. “Doctors told him back in 2014, around the time he disappeared, that he needed a left knee replacement,” the doc claims, per Fox. The documentary TMZ Investigates: What Really Happened to Richard Simmons, which recently aired on Fox, has a new theory regarding Simmons’s health that purports to explain why the beloved fitness guru faded from public view in 2014.Īccording to the doc, Simmons’s hermitage comes down to a busted knee. Why did Richard Simmons retreat from public life? Though that was the animating question for an entire (very successful) podcast, Missing Richard Simmons, the answer is allegedly quite simple.
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