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Richard Simmons’ longtime housekeeper believes fitness guru died from heart attack: ‘He looked peaceful’
By Francesca Bacardi,
5 hours ago
Richard Simmons’ longtime housekeeper believes the late fitness guru died from a heart attack — though his official cause of death remains under investigation.
“That’s why I know it was heart attack,” she told People magazine in an interview published Monday. “I had a heart attack a few years ago, and my hands did the same.”
Richard Simmons’ longtime housekeeper believes the fitness guru died from a heart attack. FilmMagic Simmons’ “companion” Teresa Reveles seen here walking from her car with a script in tow. All Access / MEGA Richard Simmons poses enthusiastically at an event in 2010. WireImage
The weight-loss advocate poses for a promotional campaign in 1980. Getty Images
Reveles added that her boss looked “peaceful” and she believed he “died happy.”
Though Simmons’ autopsy has been completed, the results are pending toxicology test results.
Dubbing herself his “companion,” Reveles joined Simmons’ household in 1986 and spent the rest of his life with him together, which she said Simmons had predicted decades ago.
Simmons poses in a NASA spacesuit for his final photo before his death. X / Richard Simmons
Simmons gives a glimpse inside his closet in 2017. Richard Simmons/Facebook
“’Teresa, come in, you are never going to leave. We are going to be together until I die,'” she recalled Simmons telling her.
“And you know what? His dream came true,” she told the publication. “He knew somehow.”
Reveles also confirmed a report that claimed the exercise personality fell in his bathroom on his birthday but refused medical help because he didn’t want to spend the special day in the hospital.
“’Why don’t we wait and we do it in the morning,’” Simmons told her.
The TV personality attends the VMAs in 2013 before becoming a recluse. WireImage The exercise expert stops by “The Late Show with David Letterman” in 2007. Getty Images
“But in the morning, it was too late,” she said of his untimely demise.
A private funeral for Simmons’ closest family and friends was held in Los Angeles one week after he died.
The weight-loss advocate’s brother, Lenny, asked Richard’s fans to “remember him for the genuine joy and love he brought to people’s lives,” going on to say that Richard “truly cared about people,” as “he called, wrote and emailed thousands of people throughout his career to offer help.”
Lenny urged, “So don’t be sad. Celebrate his life.”
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