One ofTracy Morgan‘s caregivers in the hospital after his near-fatal 2014 car crash just received a huge honor from the comedian.
Gina Domingo, a nurse in the brain trauma unit at the Hackensack Meridian Health JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute who cared for the30 Rockstar during his recovery, was presented with the Tracy Morgan Award for Excellence in Rehabilitation Nursing this week after a show at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, New Jersey on February 21.
When presenting the nurse of 30 years with the accolade,Morgan remembered Domingo’s steadfast encouragement, even when he found it difficult to be positive.
“She wouldn’t even look at me, she said everything’s gonna be all right,” Morgan said, according to ABC 7. “She would take me outside and read and let me be outside in the air. I was so angry, I was so scared.”
Morgan hasspoken several timesabout thetragic accidentin June 2014 that left him in a coma for two weeks andkilled his friend and fellow comedian James McNair, 62.
Last year, Morgancommemorated the five-year anniversaryof the accident that changed his life forever.
Morgan told PEOPLE in 2017 that he wasmotivatedto get back on stage after the accident because he “had a story to tell.”
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“When anything ever bad happened to me, I made it funny and I turned it good,” he explained. “This was a bad thing that happened to me. I wanted to tell my story, but I also want to continue my standup career because all the great things that ever happened to me in my life came through standup.”
Morgan continued: “All the great things came through standup. I’m just continuing it. Why would I stop? [The accident] wasn’t going to stop me. As long as I could stand up and grab the mic, I was going to tell my story.”
source: people.com
