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Richard Simmons talking at an occasion in New York in 2006.
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Richard Simmons has apologized after posts he made on social media brought on concern and hypothesis about his well being.
All of it started when Simmons, who’s 75, posted an ominous message to X and Fb on Monday: “I’ve some information to let you know. Please don’t be unhappy. I’m …. dying. The reality is all of us are dying. On daily basis we reside we’re getting nearer to our demise.”
He added: “Why am I telling you this? As a result of I would like you to get pleasure from your life to the fullest each single day. Rise up within the morning and take a look at the sky… depend your blessings and revel in.”
In a later submit Monday, Simmons stated he was “sorry for the confusion.”
“Sorry lots of you will have gotten upset about my message right now. Even the press has gotten in contact with me,” the health movie star wrote on a submit on X. “I’m not dying.”
The truth is, Simmons stated, his message was meant to be one about “how we must always embrace daily that we have now.”
When reached by CNN previous to Simmons’ apology, Tom Estey, a spokesman for Simmons, additionally asserted that the posts have been meant to be motivational in nature and never a private announcement associated to his well being.
“I can affirm with a hundred percent certainty that Richard isn’t dying,” Estey informed CNN. “He’s, in truth, very wholesome and comfortable. The only function of the submit was meant to be inspirational.”
Within the thread of posts on his X web page stemming from his unique submit, Simmons writes about wholesome consuming and inspired his followers to take a look at his exercise movies out there on his YouTube channel.
“A giant hug actually goes a good distance,” he wrote on the finish of his submit.
Simmons grew a health enterprise and have become a tv common within the Eighties, with a fame as a gregarious well being advocate.
He has remained out of the general public eye in recent times, however the circumstances surrounding his whereabouts and wellbeing has offered a fair proportion of web fodder.
From time to time, Simmons will share private updates on his social media pages, writing in a January Fb submit, “I simply attempt to reside a quiet life and be peaceable.”