Tracy Morgan Gets Emotional During First Studio Interview With Hot 97 Since His Crash

Tracy Morgan was feeling a little emotional on the "Ebro In the Morning" show on Hot 97.

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Tracy Morgan sat down for a long interview with Hot 97's Ebro In the Morning on Thursday, and for nearly 26 minutes the hosts just turned him loose to talk about whatever he wanted. A few things he wanted to talk about: Asking Knicks great John Starks about dunking on Michael Jordan, sitting across from Mike Tyson during that Jimmy Kimmel sketch, revealing the way Michael Jackson really died, and "accidentally" letting his junk fall out of his boxers in front of his hot physical therapist. 

The most gripping moments, though, were when Tracy talked about the 2014 truck crash that left him in a coma and claimed the life of his friend and fellow comedian James McNair. Visibly emotional, Morgan explained that it took time for him to stop feeling responsible for the tragedy.

"I wasn't able to do nothing until I started forgiving... myself.  Everybody that was in that ... truck that night, I asked to be there," he said. "I appreciate things now, especially Hot 97 putting me in front of my home crowd for the first time since the accident. Think about that. For the first time. I'm home."

Morgan also said that he has days when he struggles with memory loss, and was blind for a week after waking up from the coma. He also explained that it was a month before his wife revealed to him that McNair had died in the accident. After taking the interview in a lighter direction, Morgan got serious again when Ebro started wrapping things up.

"I just don't wanna leave man, I really don't. That's how I be feeling sometimes, like if I leave... I don't mean to say like something bad gonna happen... You don't know how I feel man. Anybody that ain't never been in a coma for 10 days don't know how I feel. You feel fortunate, cause you look at it. Like for a year I sat on my chair and just watched the footage of the wreckage, that was part of my therapy. Then I look at my wife and my daughter running around, and I'm like woah, wow, wow... Nobody wanna see nobody go out like that no matter what. That was a hard crash. You see all that steel? You see the size of that machine. You been on the turnpike. Everybody here been on the turnpike next to those trucks. Those are big machines. Imagine one doing 65 mph. I don't remember nothing. I woke up like two weeks later in the hospital."

You can watch the entire interview below—it's definitely worth the time.

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