Richard Simmons’ housekeeper and longtime partner has a theory about how the fitness guru died.
Teresa Reveles, who never gave interviews to the media while Simmons was alive, spoke about her relationship with Simmons and his final days. peopleShe said in a story published in the magazine on Monday that she discovered her husband’s body on their bedroom floor the morning after his 76th birthday.
She said Simmons appeared “calm” but had his hands clenched into fists “which is how I knew it was a heart attack. I had a heart attack a few years ago and my fists were clenched the same way.”
An autopsy was conducted shortly after Simmons’ death on July 13. An official cause of death had not been released as of Monday afternoon.
Reveles said: Work up a sweat with some oldies Her host had injured himself in a fall at home two days before his death, and she remembered him telling her on the morning of his birthday that he couldn’t get out of bed and go downstairs because his legs hurt too much.
“‘Let’s go to the hospital,'” Reveles recalled telling him. “‘You might have broken your leg.'”
Simmons reportedly waved her off, saying, “Don’t come to my birthday,” and that he was leaving the next morning.
“But by morning it was too late,” Reveles said.
Reveles, 73, did Simmons’ shopping, oversaw the maintenance of his property and home and cooked for him, the suit said. people. She began working for him through an agency in 1986.
“When I got here, Richard asked me, ‘Where are your clothes? Where are your big suitcases?'” she said. “I said, ‘I only brought a small suitcase because I’m only going to try it for two weeks. If you don’t like me or if you don’t like my cooking, I can’t work.'”
Reveles said Simmons told her, “Theresa, come inside. You’re never leaving. We’re going to be together until I die.”
The two spent the next 36 years working, traveling and living together. peopleAccording to the magazine, Rebeles began crying. “I can’t stop crying,” she explained. “I still can’t believe what happened.”
But when asked if she wanted to take a break, she declined: “No, I want to celebrate Richard, he died happy.”
