CONCERN has been growing for beloved actor Morgan Freeman amid reports of a nasty illness.
So, how is the screen icon doing and what happened to him? Here’s everything you need to know.
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How is Morgan Freeman doing?
Morgan Freeman has sparked concern over his health after it was announced that he had fallen ill.
He is still acting, while also campaigning vocally on a number of issues.
On his Instagram profile, he has made several posts supporting stricter food safety legislation in California, despite living in Tennessee.
The bill seeks to ban particular “ultra-processed food additives”, which are prevalent in candy and cereals, among other products.
As of July 2023, it had been approved by the state senate’s Committee on Health and was awaiting final voting.
Freeman celebrated the news, writing: “Stay tuned as we work together to promote a healthier and more transparent food system.”
What happened to Morgan Freeman?
As The Sun exclusively revealed, Freeman was forced to pull out of a trip to the UK at the last minute after falling ill.
He had been set to make the journey to promote his new spy thriller Special Ops: Lioness.
The acting legend was due to appear alongside co-stars Nicole Kidman and Zoe Saldana on the press trip, but had to cancel after contracting a “contagious infection”.
Morgan’s representative told The Sun, “Mr Freeman was not able to attend his planned trip to the UK because he had a contagious infection. He is fine now.”
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This comes on top of his existing struggle with fibromyalgia, a condition that causes severe pain throughout the body and general fatigue.
He developed the issue after a near-fatal car crash in 2008, which also resulted in his left hand being paralysed, requiring him to wear a compression glove to maintain circulation.
During an interview with Esquire in 2012, interviewer Tom Chiarella explained: “It hurts when he walks, when he sits still, when he rises from his couch, and when he missteps in a damp meadow.
“More than hurts. It seems a kind of agony, though he never mentions it. Despite surgery to repair nerve damage, he was stuck with a useless left hand.
“It is stiffly gripped by a compression glove most of the time to ensure that blood doesn’t pool there. It is a clamp, his pain, an icy shot up a relatively useless limb.”
How old is Morgan Freeman?
Freeman is 86 years old, as of July 2023.
He was born in 1937 in Memphis, TN, to a teacher Mamie Revere and barber Morgan Freeman Sr.
Before becoming an actor, he served as a radar repairman for the US Air Force from 1955 to 1959.
He has been married twice, first to Jeanette Bradshaw from 1967-79 and secondly to Myrna Colley-Lee from 1984 to 2010.
The second marriage produced four children, while he also parented his step-granddaughter from his first marriage, E’dena Hines, who was murdered in New York City in 2015, aged just 33.
Hines was stabbed to death by her boyfriend Lamar Davenport as he lashed out while drunk and high on drugs.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the state Supreme Court in 2018.
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