Tracy Morgan Cries In First Interview Since Accident

On Monday’s episode of Today, Tracy Morgan sat down with his attorney Benedict Morelli and host Matt Lauer to discuss, for the first time, the June 2014 accident that resulted in Morgan getting brain trauma and broken leg, nose, and ribs. Morgan says he has no memory of what happened, “I don’t remember the accident. I just remember when I came through. Megan, my fiancée, was right there. My son was right there, Mark was right there, Ben was right there. That’s basically what I remember.”

While others might have looked to distance themselves from such a traumatic experience, Morgan did the opposite, “When I got home, it really hit me. Every day I would watch the accident on YouTube. One day I came across his funeral on YouTube…I had to know what happened to my friend.”

The friend he is referring to is James “Jimmy Mack” McNair, who did not survive the accident. Morgan cried when discussing a man he’s referred to as his mentor, telling Lauer, “He’s a close friend of mine, a comrade in comedy. He was a loving man and he was a warm man. He was a good man. It just hurts me to see that he’s gone.”

When Lauer asked how Morgan is doing now, the actor and comedian replied, “You can see the scars on my head. There are times where I have my good days and my bad days where I forget things, you know. There are times when I got headaches and the nosebleeds. And I won’t even let my lady know because I don’t want her to be worried about it. But I have my good days and my bad days.”

Morgan reassured his fans who have been missing his presence over the past year that he’s going to return to making people laugh, “I love comedy. I’ll never stop loving her. I love comedy and I can’t wait to get back to her. But right now my goal is just to heal and get better ‘cause I’m not 100 percent yet. I’m not. And when I’m there, you’ll know it. I’ll get back to making you laugh, I promise you.”