Tracy Morgan woke up from a coma to learn his best friend had been killed in the crash that nearly killed him. Walmart, whose truck hit them, later paid his friend's children $10 million.
In the video below, in his first interview after the crash, he talks about the last time he saw his friend alive.
In June 2014, the 30 Rock star was riding home from a show in Delaware on the New Jersey Turnpike.
A Walmart tractor-trailer hit their limo van from behind. Federal investigators said the driver was going 65 mph in a zone lowered to 45 for construction. He had reportedly been awake for more than 24 hours.
Comedian James "Jimmy Mack" McNair, Morgan's friend and writer, was killed. Morgan suffered a traumatic brain injury and spent days in a coma.
He says he only found out Jimmy was gone two weeks later. At home, he kept rewatching the crash on YouTube until he came across his friend's funeral.
He usually traveled with his fiancée and baby daughter. That night, he told them to stay home. He says if they had been in that van, they wouldn't have made it.
Walmart took responsibility, and Morgan settled for an undisclosed amount. He later said he forgave the driver: "Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal."
Is $10 million a fair price for a father's life, or is there no amount that could ever make it right?
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