The once-omnipresent fitness guru has become famous for avoiding the spotlight in his latter years.
with him that revealed the private struggles he carried with him well into adulthood.
“One night I was on the Larry King show and he was either going to be a guest or supposed to be a guest, and I heard through the Larry King people that he didn’t want to be on the show with me,” Somers, 75, recalled. “I said, ‘Why?’ and he said, ‘She’ll make fun of me.’ And that’s not my style, I never make fun of anybody. But that’s when I realized a little insecurity has gotten in there.”
“I liked him. I was always so surprised when he thought I’d make fun of him. But doesn’t that show you he’s got a heartache? Something’s broken inside because he did it. He had it and then let it go.”All Access PhotoAccording to the TMZ doc, Simmons had a right knee replacement that left him in pain, and unwilling to get a left knee replacement, too.
“We know still that to this day, Richard still hasn’t gotten corrective surgery on his left knee,” TMZ boss Harvey Levin said in the doc. “He walks with a cane and that explains a lot. He’s just not the same guy anymore. Levin said that’s why he left the spotlight. “He wanted to be remembered as vibrant and healthy — not an elderly man with medical problems.'”
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