Tracy Morgan was seen weak and limping as he headed into a New Jersey post office with his fiancee Megan Wollover on Wednesday, just the third time the actor has been seen in public since he was involved in a horrifying car accident this past June.
The actor was leaning on a walker as he slowly moved down the sidewalk and said he was still ‘fighting every day’ after being involved in the crash, which claimed the life of his friend James McNair and injured 3 others.
Morgan suffered a traumatic brain injury as well as a broken leg, a broken nose and broken ribs in the accident.
At one point as he returned to his car from the post office, the actor even had to briefly stop and catch his breath before moving on. In addition to his fiancee he was also accompanied by an aide who was there to help him get into the car.
Morgan was critically injured in early June when a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer rammed into a limousine bus he and his friends were travelling in on the New Jersey Turnpike. The comedian, known for his roles on Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, was returning home to New York City from a show at a Delaware casino. He spent almost two months in the hospital and rehab following the accident before he could return home, and the extent of his brain injury is still unknown.
‘He’s fighting to get better, and if there’s a chance for him to be back to the Tracy Morgan he once was, he’s going to try to do that,’ said his lawyer Benedict Morelli last month. ‘But we just don’t know because of the severity of the injuries that he sustained and the fact that he had such a severe brain injury.’
The driver of the tractor-trailer, Kevin Roper, was charged with death by auto and four counts of assault by auto in a New Jersey state court. Earlier this week, Morgan and his attorneys accused Wal-Mart of stalling in a federal lawsuit that have brought against the company over their safety practices after it was reported that Roper was asleep at the wheel at the time of the crash.
Morgan was forced to put an FX series he had in development on hold after the accident, though his new film with Chris Rock, Take Five, will be released this month.
He came out against Wal_mart in a public statement this past September after they accused him of being at fault during the accident for not wearing a seatbelt. ‘I can’t believe Walmart is blaming me for an accident they caused,’ he said at the time.
‘I’m fighting hard every day to get back.’
We’re pulling for you Tracy!
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SIX MONTHS AFTER CRASH,TRACY MORGAN ISN’T MUCH BETTER
