Latest / Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest / How Tracy Morgan’s Daughter Saved His Life
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Tracy Morgan has come
- 0:04Speaker 1: a long way from a car accident when an eighteen
- 0:07Speaker 1: wheeler collided with his limo and quite literally almost ended
- 0:10Speaker 1: his life. He was in a deep comma for two
- 0:12Speaker 1: weeks and suffered serious breaks for the ribs, legs, and nose,
- 0:16Speaker 1: leaving it with intense physical pain and a long road ahead.
- 0:19Speaker 1: And the thing that pulled him out of it and
- 0:21Speaker 1: kept him fighting for his life was his now eight
- 0:23Speaker 1: year old daughter, Maven, who was still a baby at
- 0:26Speaker 1: the time in the crash. Tracy tells the Today's Show
- 0:29Speaker 1: people don't just come out of commas. I had to fight.
- 0:32Speaker 1: I knew I had to be here for her. I
- 0:33Speaker 1: wanted to see my daughter. I've always wanted a daughter
- 0:36Speaker 1: and have a female version of myself, And because I survived,
- 0:39Speaker 1: I get to look at every day she grows under
- 0:41Speaker 1: my gaze. His daughter, Maven is actually following and Tracy's
- 0:44Speaker 1: footsteps and appears on the new season of his show
- 0:46Speaker 1: The Last O g which airs on TVs Tuesday. That's
- 0:50Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood