Richard Simmons’ disappearance from the public eye has repeatedly had fans concerned over the years, and Entertainment Tonight claimed in 2017 that friends of the now-reclusive former fitness guru were very concerned after he began cutting people off. “He has stopped talking to many loving, longtime friends, like Gerry Sinclair, the 95-year-old that is his second mother. In fact, [Gerry] went to the house last year, and the staff told her that Richard didn’t want to see her,” his former massage therapist, Mauro Oliveira, revealed to the outlet. That came the year after an unnamed friend of Simmons’ told Daily News, “It’s not something that I want to seek publicity about, but we are very concerned … He has missed funerals of close friends. He was the most reliable and caring person on the planet, and then to suddenly vanish? I have come to believe that something else is happening. I don’t think Richard is in there of his own volition.” At that point, friends of the star were claiming they hadn’t seen him in around two years.
As fans grew increasingly worried, “TMZ Investigates: What Really Happened to Richard Simmons” aired in 2022, in which it was suggested by TMZ’s managing editor Fabian Garcia that Simmons had become reclusive because of a birth defect. “He was born without a full set of bones in his foot, and it causes physical and emotional problems,” Garcia claimed.
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