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Tracy Morgan meets the man who saved his life

Comedy star Tracy Morgan had an emotional meeting with the first ... Read More
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The 47-year-old funnyman lost his close friend James 'Jimmy' McNair when a

Walmart

truck smashed into their limousine on the

New Jersey Turnpike

in 2014 and Morgan recently met the man who pulled him out of the wreckage, reported Femalefirst.

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"He was shaking for two years now, and I just held him and told him 'I love you very much, I love you very much, thank you so much.' And we started to talk and he said when he pulled me out, a 23-year-old man, I was covered, and he was covered in my blood from head to toe, and he said I was swinging.

"I said, 'Why was I doing that?' And he said, 'You were fighting for your life.' I wasn't ready to go man. I got a little girl, I got sons, I got my audience, I got my wife, I wasn't ready to go," Morgan said.

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