Richard Simmons had one last encouraging message for his fans before his passing.
The fitness guru’s team shared a final regular social media post he had prepared for his fans just days before his death on July 13 at the age of 76.
“Richard has worked very hard on his posts for you,” his team wrote on X July 20. “He had many ideas and worked on them… going back over each one and making changes until he got the result he wanted before posting. As you know, on the weekends he would simply share a photo with a caption.”
Staff said Simmons “always chose his photos and wrote his captions for the upcoming weekend” on Fridays each week, and included a message he planned to share on July 14, one day after his death.
“Let me take you to the moon so we can stargaze,” read Simmons’ message, which accompanied a photoshopped photo of the fitness instructor wearing a NASA uniform and appearing inside a slot canyon. “With love, Richard.”
