Richard Simmons was covered in cuts and bruises and had a broken leg when he died the day before his 76th birthday.
RadarOnline.com exclusively obtained a copy of Simmons’ autopsy report revealing the extent of the “traumatic blunt injuries” credited with causing the fitness guru’s accidental death.
Simmons, who disappeared from the public eye in 2014 after a prosperous career in exercise media, suffered the injuries during a “ground level fall” at his Hollywood Hills home. The date of injury was listed as “unknown” by the Los Angeles Medical Examiner.
On the evening of July 11, “he experienced an episode of dizziness and collapsed on the floor”, the report read. The next day, which was his birthday, he “refused to seek medical care because he wanted to spend his birthday at home and agreed to seek medical care the following morning.”
The workout icon — whose legal name was Milton Simmons — spent his birthday in bed. His secretary told officials his “speech seemed slurred” when she paid him a visit.