Richard Simmons’ Staff Reveals His Final Message Before His Death

Richard Simmons had a final uplifting message for his fans before his passing.

The fitness guru’s team has shared a final regularly scheduled social media post he had had prepared for his fans days before his death July 13 at age 76.

“Richard worked very hard on his posts for you,” his staff wrote on X July 20. “He had many ideas and would work ahead… going back to each one making changes until he had it just like he wanted before posting. As you know, on the weekends, he would just share a photo with a caption.”

The staff said Simmons “always chose his photos and wrote his captions for the upcoming weekend” by Friday every week, and included a post he planned to share July 14, one day after his death.

“Let me fly you to the moon so we can gaze among the stars,” read Simmons’ message, which accompanied a photoshopped pic of the fitness instructor wearing a NASA uniform costume and appearing inside a slot canyon. “Love, Richard.”