Just days after sustaining arm injuries in a serious car crash, Oscar winner Morgan Freeman is splitting from Myrna Colley-Lee, his wife of 24 years.
Photo by Jasper Juinen
2007 AP file photo
MCLEAN, VA
(USA Today)
August 7, 2008:
By Jerry Mitchell, Special for USA TODAY
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman and his wife of 24 years, Myrna Colley-Lee, a costume designer for theater, have filed for divorce, Freeman's business partner says.
The news comes after Freeman, 71, and a female passenger, Demaris Meyer, 48, of Memphis were in a car accident Sunday night near Freeman's home in Tallahatchie County, Miss. The actor suffered a broken arm, broken elbow and minor shoulder injuries.
Bill Luckett, who co-owns a restaurant and blues club in Clarksdale, Miss., with Freeman, says he and Freeman have been friends for some time with Meyer, a top executive assistant at FedEx in Memphis.
Luckett says the divorce was in the works before the accident.
Freeman had surgery Monday on his left arm and hand, but his recovery is expected to take months. Luckett says Freeman will have to wear a neck brace for six to eight months, and his arm will take several months to heal.
"The doctors have said it will be six months to a year before he plays golf again," Luckett says. "He hates that."
Some reports saying Freeman had a severed nerve in his arm were incorrect, Luckett says. "Nothing was severed. A nerve can be bruised or stretched. It was injured but not severed."
On Tuesday, Freeman received visits from family members. He could be released in the next few days from the Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Center at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, known as The Med.
Mitchell reports for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss.
© 2008 USA TODAY
August 7, 2008
USA: Morgan Freeman, wife divorcing after 24 years
Just days after sustaining arm injuries in a serious car crash, Oscar winner Morgan Freeman is splitting from Myrna Colley-Lee, his wife of 24 years.
Photo by Jasper Juinen
2007 AP file photo
MCLEAN, VA
(USA Today)
August 7, 2008:
By Jerry Mitchell, Special for USA TODAY
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman and his wife of 24 years, Myrna Colley-Lee, a costume designer for theater, have filed for divorce, Freeman's business partner says.
The news comes after Freeman, 71, and a female passenger, Demaris Meyer, 48, of Memphis were in a car accident Sunday night near Freeman's home in Tallahatchie County, Miss. The actor suffered a broken arm, broken elbow and minor shoulder injuries.
Bill Luckett, who co-owns a restaurant and blues club in Clarksdale, Miss., with Freeman, says he and Freeman have been friends for some time with Meyer, a top executive assistant at FedEx in Memphis.
Luckett says the divorce was in the works before the accident.
Freeman had surgery Monday on his left arm and hand, but his recovery is expected to take months. Luckett says Freeman will have to wear a neck brace for six to eight months, and his arm will take several months to heal.
"The doctors have said it will be six months to a year before he plays golf again," Luckett says. "He hates that."
Some reports saying Freeman had a severed nerve in his arm were incorrect, Luckett says. "Nothing was severed. A nerve can be bruised or stretched. It was injured but not severed."
On Tuesday, Freeman received visits from family members. He could be released in the next few days from the Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Center at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, known as The Med.
Mitchell reports for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss.
© 2008 USA TODAY
