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Tracy Morgan reflects on career and how a devastating crash impacted his life: “You have to cherish it”
Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan’s love for family is what drew him to his latest project – starring in the new Paramount+ comedy series “Crutch.”
Morgan plays Frank Crutchfield, a widowed father of two adult kids who move back into the family home in New York City’s Harlem. It’s a spinoff of the hit CBS show “The Neighborhood.”
“Prepping my whole life, man. I’ve got kids. My real wife died, Sabina. She passed away eight years ago. I … knew this role. I know this guy,” Morgan said in an interview with “CBS Mornings” that aired on Wednesday.
Morgan’s ex-wife Sabina, who was his high school sweetheart, died of cancer in 2016.
“I was with her in the hospital the day she closed her eyes and I said, ‘I love you. I miss you and please forgive me for any hurt I’ve ever caused you and I will see you again.'”
Purpose in his work
For Morgan, he says it’s important to not just be funny, but also send a message in his work.
“If it doesn’t have a heart, I don’t want to do it,” he said. “I need to be motivated. I got to say something. You got to tell life how I see it.”
Humor has helped the comedian through some of life’s most demanding moments, all while he built one of comedy’s most impressive resumes. Morgan found comfort in commanding an audience, standing out in everything he put his fingers on, including “Saturday Night Live.”
“When I first got there, I felt socially pushed away,” he said. “Because it is like the whitest show in the world and I didn’t want no one to portray me in a way that wasn’t true. It was like I had the whole Black community on my back.”
Morgan said then he had a conversation with the show’s creator and producer Lorne Michaels, which changed everything.
“Lorne let me know, ‘Tracy, we didn’t hire you because you’re Black. We hired you because you’re funny,’ and that changed it all. That’s when I let go and I let God,” he said.
Car crash impact on his life
In June 2014, at the height of his fame, Morgan nearly lost his life after his limousine was hit by a tractor trailer. His friend and fellow comedian James McNair was killed in the crash.
Morgan was in a coma for two weeks with a traumatic brain injury and broken bones.
“I just thank the Lord that I’m alive and I’m here and … I move on,” he said.
Morgan said he is now thriving with a renewed outlook on forgiveness and a focus on being present.
“The man almost killed me in that Walmart truck. I forgave him. As soon as I came out the coma, I forgave him,” he said.
For Morgan, forgiveness is the key to moving forward, but adds you don’t have to forget.
“I wouldn’t have been able to be funny no more. I would have been too angry. He almost killed me. I forgave him just to move forward with my life. Now look at me. I’m funnier than ever,” he added.
After the terrifying experience, Morgan says his perspective on life evolved: “You have to cherish it. Cause once it’s done, it’s done.”
Prince William and Princess Kate’s only daughter made her most stunning appearance yet as she turned 11 on Saturday, just a week after her little brother marked his own birthday.
The Waleses, who moved to Forest Lodge last November, shared a new look for Charlotte as she is seems to be growing up fast.
Well, that soft launch has officially become a full-blown hard launch.
Sydney Sweeney just made things very Instagram official with Scooter Braun – and fans wasted approximately three seconds before turning the comments section into a full FBI investigation.
The Euphoria star dropped a Stagecoach photo carousel on Friday that looked innocent enough at first: cowboy vibes, festival lights, karaoke chaos. Then came the cuddling photos.
One snapshot showed the pair squeezed together in a photo booth making goofy faces, while another featured Braun literally carrying Sweeney bridal-style through the crowd like this was the final scene of a rom-com nobody saw coming.
There was also a clip of them singing karaoke together and another of Sweeney perched on his shoulders during a performance because apparently subtlety has officially left the chat.
“cowboy kind of weekend,” she captioned the post — which may be the understatement of the year.
Braun had already hinted at the romance weeks earlier after posting Sweeney on his Instagram Story, but this is the clearest confirmation yet that the two are no longer trying to keep things low-key.
The pair reportedly started dating in September 2025 after meeting at the lavish wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez in Venice.
Since then, they have been spotted on multiple dates and holding hands publicly.
Now? The internet has officially upgraded them from rumour to relationship status.
The wardrobe is officially open again – and this time, Greta Gerwig is leading the way.
Netflix has finally confirmed the title and release dates for Gerwig’s long-awaited Chronicles of Narnia reboot, and fantasy fans already sound emotionally unwell online.
The first film will be called Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew and arrives in theaters on February 12, 2027, before landing on Netflix on April 2.
And yes, the cast is stacked.
Meryl Streep, Daniel Craig, Carey Mulligan, Emma Mackey and Denise Gough are all set to appear in the fantasy epic based on C.S. Lewis’ classic books.
Gerwig, who writes, directs, and produces the film, got deeply personal while explaining why this story matters to her.
“I was a child when I first read The Magician’s Nephew, and I fell in love with the gorgeously improbable but completely brilliant concept of a cosmic lion singing the world of Narnia to life,” she said.
“I didn’t know that I would grow up to make films… but a universe built out of music is an idea that always lived in my heart.”
Unlike the earlier Narnia movies, Gerwig’s film starts at the very beginning of the timeline, exploring Aslan’s creation of Narnia itself – essentially the fantasy franchise’s origin story.
In other words: Greta Gerwig is about to make an entire generation cry over a lion all over again.
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