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Post by librarylady on Mar 13, 2016 3:35:50 GMT
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Post by scrapsuzy on Mar 13, 2016 3:46:43 GMT
Well, that does sound odd. Something is off. How in the world can he really be checked on, if his "weak mental state" is being taken advantage of and he appears to be okay? So sad.
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Post by darkangel090260 on Mar 13, 2016 4:01:22 GMT
Then who ever has him lets him make public appearances and everything.m plus they keep up one hell of a face book page with new photo all the time. He also would have handler and they would report him missing not a assistant.
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Post by annabella on Mar 13, 2016 4:04:05 GMT
My mom is a big fan of his so I went on a few, yes few lol, exercise cruises with him. When he turned 60 he said he was done cruising, previously he had one every year. He said he stayed in his room most of the time during the cruise, including ports, I assumed it was because he was too famous to walk around and didn't want to be on all the time.
I read that when he stopped going to his exercise studio the class size dwindled because he was the heart of it. So someone filed a police report to go check on him, and on TMZ last year they had a picture of him opening the door. He was alive and well. So my uninformed guess was that he was depressed and that's why he's staying home. But he has such a huge community of people who relied on his personality to help them with his weight loss that they won't accept that he's just poof disappeared. Richard's brother also came on the cruises and the article says he's part of his life. I would hope his brother has his best interests at heart. If he has Alzheimers his brother simply wants to hide him from the public so his public image/memory isn't tarnished. We don't know what's going on with his medical care so we can't assume he's not getting the best care for whatever is going on with him.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2016 4:06:01 GMT
I saw him on "whose line is it?" not too long ago. I don't think it was a repeat.
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Post by ceepea on Mar 13, 2016 4:11:14 GMT
That's weird. Maybe he really does just want to be left alone. He could be keeping an illness private like a lot of celebrities do.
I hope he is ok. He always seemed to have a good sense of humor about himself and truly cared about helping people.
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Post by annabella on Mar 13, 2016 4:11:50 GMT
I saw him on "whose line is it?" not too long ago. I don't think it was a repeat. I googled this and it was a few years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2016 4:16:42 GMT
My son works at a recording studio and Richard would come in quite often and whenever he saw my son he would run to him and give him big hugs and was just as nice and kind as could be. DS no longer works at that studio (but works at a sister studio) just couple years ago he was alive and well. I'll have to have DS ask his previous coworkers if they still see Richard.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2016 4:21:00 GMT
Perhaps he's ill. Or perhaps he's gained weight and is embarrassed. Or perhaps he had unpleasant interactions with paparazzi. While it's odd that he's suddenly a hermit, my mind does not jump to "prisoner" as the first option.
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Post by pierkiss on Mar 13, 2016 4:29:22 GMT
Odd. I thought I heard years ago that he has agoraphobia.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2016 4:39:07 GMT
Well, that's interesting. I have never really thought much about RS. But 6 years ago, I was invited to another state for the baptism of my niece's son...she married into a large Catholic family...the baby was the 14th grandchild under 12 I think at the time...and I'll never forget how cute it was that the old Italian Grandma gathered the little kids into the tv room and put on a RS video and had all the little kids "dancing to the oldies" with her....I might need to find a video to "dance" with my own grandbaby....
Hope the guy is ok and just enjoying time alone.
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Post by berty on Mar 13, 2016 4:40:04 GMT
About a year ago, I read on some gossip site that he hurt his knee, couldn't exercise, and gained weight. All of this supposedly made him upset and he didn't want people to see him. Who really knows,though? Adding - so far the ads at the bottom of this page for me have been betty Crocker brownies and slim fast bars! ??
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2016 4:44:21 GMT
DS just said the last he heard RS was having BAD depression and wouldn't go in public. That is so sad - I always loved him and his upbeat personality - always getting everyone pumped up
Hope he can get help for his depression
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Post by rune2484 on Mar 13, 2016 5:21:20 GMT
Then who ever has him lets him make public appearances and everything.m plus they keep up one hell of a face book page with new photo all the time. He also would have handler and they would report him missing not a assistant. I've been following him on FB for a couple of years now and he really does update quite often - he is far more prolific than any of the other celebrities I follow. I suppose it could be a fake, but I'm surprised it has lasted this long if that is the case.
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Post by paigewh on Mar 13, 2016 5:42:37 GMT
I am an Internet Marketing manager and part of my job involves running FB fan pages. Many celebrities have someone else posting for them and I'll bet that's the case with him. Especially since someone is deleting comments - "Something is VERY wrong here. Stop deleting posts from his fans who are family to him." Is one that I just saw there ...
ETA - They have comments by fans turned off on that page ... That's a MAJOR red flag. Also, the pictures of him that are posted are all old. The one in the orange tutu is from 2011 ~
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Mar 13, 2016 6:03:44 GMT
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Post by anniefb on Mar 13, 2016 6:57:42 GMT
Very sad. Sounds like he's depressed.
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Mar 14, 2016 2:36:47 GMT
He just posted on Facebook that he is calling into The Today Show tomorrow to let everyone know he is okay.
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Post by bc2ca on Mar 14, 2016 3:13:03 GMT
DS just said the last he heard RS was having BAD depression and wouldn't go in public. That is so sad - I always loved him and his upbeat personality - always getting everyone pumped up Hope he can get help for his depression I remember an interview years ago where he talked about being a true introvert and it was exhausting to keep up his public image. His brand was about being an upbeat, energized cheerleader, but he needed a lot of down time to refuel for that. It also goes along with his not having a lot of close friends or long term relationships. It is sad to hear he is suffering from depression, but I'm not surprised.
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Post by happymomma on Mar 14, 2016 13:08:34 GMT
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Post by annabella on Mar 14, 2016 14:20:36 GMT
I remember an interview years ago where he talked about being a true introvert and it was exhausting to keep up his public image. His brand was about being an upbeat, energized cheerleader, but he needed a lot of down time to refuel for that. It also goes along with his not having a lot of close friends or long term relationships. It is sad to hear he is suffering from depression, but I'm not surprised. I believe this is the case but on the phone interview he sounded very upbeat, not how he was when he opened the door a year ago so perhaps he's recovering. I understand that celebs have someone else managing their social media, but it's just weird for a celeb who is MIA for 2 years to do that.
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