--- title: Tracy Morgan Gives First Post-Crash Interview on TODAY description: The comedian sat down with Matt Lauer in his first live interview since the fatal car accident canonical: https://time.com/3903049/tracy-morgan-interview-nbc-crash/ author: Megan Gibson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-01T12:37:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:20:32.164Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Tracy Morgan Gives Emotional First Interview Since Fatal Car Wreck og:description: "I can't believe I'm here" og:url: https://time.com/3903049/tracy-morgan-interview-nbc-crash/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tracy Morgan Gives Emotional First Interview Since Fatal Car Wreck twitter:description: "I can't believe I'm here" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Tracy Morgan Gives Emotional First Post-Crash Interview by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Jun 1, 2015 12:37 PM UTC by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Jun 1, 2015 12:37 PM UTC Tracy Morgan opened up about the fatal car wreck that almost took his life Monday, in an emotional interview [with TODAY’s Matt Lauer](http://www.today.com/popculture/tracy-morgan-speaks-today-show-matt-lauer-first-interview-crash-t23521). “I can’t believe I’m here,” he said. The _30 Rock_ actor told Lauer he couldn’t recall the June 2014 accident, when a limousine Morgan and friends were traveling in was rear-ended by a Walmart truck on a New Jersey highway. The accident left Morgan with severe brain trauma, a broken leg and broken ribs, and killed his friend, comedian James McNair. “Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal,” Morgan told Lauer. Last week, Morgan settled with Walmart in a lawsuit over the crash for an unspecified amount. A criminal complaint alleges that the truck driver, Kevin Roper, had not slept for more than 24 hours and was speeding at the time of the accident. Morgan’s attorney, Benedict P. Morelli, told Lauer that Walmart took “full responsibility” for the accident. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3903049/tracy-morgan-interview-nbc-crash/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3903049/tracy-morgan-interview-nbc-crash/"},"headline":"Tracy Morgan Gives Emotional First Post-Crash Interview","datePublished":"2015-06-01T12:37:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:32.164Z","description":"\"I can't believe I'm here\"","url":"https://time.com/3903049/tracy-morgan-interview-nbc-crash/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3903049/tracy-morgan-interview-nbc-crash/","name":"Tracy Morgan Gives Emotional First Post-Crash Interview"}}]}] ```