I Finally Watched It

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I posted a week or so again about Richard Simmons. I had read online that he had disappeared. Since 2014 no one had seen him. I did see where Tubi was going to have a documentary drop on August 30th. Tonight I watched it. TMZ Investigates "What Really Happened to Richard Simmons?" had some really cute photos of Richard when he was a youngster. Many of them when he was at his peak both professionally and physically. I thought that was worth watching it in itself. The documentary is the first place I have seen where it tells about his birth defect. He was born without all of the bones in one of his feet. Later on in his life, he had gotten surgery on one of his knees but, the pain was so great he wouldn't get the needed surgery on the other knee. His reason for leaving Slimmons(his gym) and his public life behind was that he didn't want to be seen as an old man with a cane. He wanted the public to remember him as the health guru with an extreme personality that helped millions to lose weight and become healthy. This was a passionate, emotional, sensitive, and caring human being. He did good work and he has many fans.