Tracy Morgan On Car Crash That Led To Coma: 'I Don't Remember Any Of It'

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Tracy Morgan reflects on the car crash that almost cost him his life, but after the coma, the comedian-fortunately or unfortunately-doesn't have a memory of the fatal accident.

"I don't remember any of it. And my doctor said, 'You don't want to remember any of it,'" Tracy Morgan tells Barbara Walters in a new special, per NY Daily News. "But when I first came out of the coma, I was blind for a week."

Tracy Morgan had a hard time getting back on performing standup, as well as making a TV appearance after the car crash. As he explained to Barbara Walters, "When you take a bump like that on the head, I don't think everything's going to be there 100 percent."

When asked by Barbara Walters on why Tracy Morgan survived the car crash, the "30 Rock" actor said, "Who knows? Maybe He kept me here to raise my daughter, to raise my family. My new wife."

"Lord knows what it must have been [like] for her to get that phone call at 6 in the morning about her fiance and the father of her child," he says, talking about fiancée Megan Wollover. "Lord knows what she went through. And one day she came all the way back to our house to get some fresh clothes, and the phone rang and the nurse said he's up, and he asked for you."

Back in June, Tracy Morgan said that the aftermath of the car crash almost cost him his family after he slumped into a depression.

"[Maven] was a baby when I first came home from the hospital, so she was scared of the wheelchair," he told People. "She wouldn't come over to me ... I took that personally."

"She was young. I was in a wheelchair every day. [But] my fiancée and my son, they wouldn't let me just lie down," the "30 Rock" actor added.

Wal-Mart settled with Tracy Morgan for an undetermined amount as a result of the car crash. The giant retailer's driver, Kevin Roper, was deemed responsible for the incident.

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