Comedian James McNair, a.k.a.
Morgan was comatose for two weeks and spent five months in a wheelchair as he rehabilitated his leg.
The driver’s lawyerdenied that claim.
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The suit was ultimately settled in May 2015.
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Morgan previously discussed the accident in his 2017 Netflix comedy specialStaying Alive.
“I suffered some terrible injuries traumatic brain injury,” he said.
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“I broke every bone in my face, my ribs.
I pulverized my femur.
All kinds of s— started coming up missing in my hospital room.”
“After the coma I was behaving erratically,“he said.
“I was acting really erratically and the doctors told my wife, ‘Mrs.
Morgan, that’s the brain trauma.’
And my wife looked at the doctor and said, ‘Nah.
[He’s] always been crazy.
I was hoping the accident was going to fix his crazy brain.'”
