Nine years after Richard Simmons stepped away from the public eye, his rep spoke out and shared how the fitness guru is doing on his 75th birthday.
"No one is holding me in my house as a hostage," Simmons told thein 2016, refuting the rumors."You know, I do what I want to do as I've always done so people should sort of just believe what I have to say."
He continued,"I just sort of wanted to be a little bit of a loner for a little while. You know, I had hurt my knee, and I had some problems with it, and then the other knee started giving me trouble...and you know, right now I just want to sort of take care of me."
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