I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the most

valuable gifts you can give yourself is time. Taking time to be more fully present. Your journey

to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.

There's an old saying that laughter is good for the soul.

For Tracy Morgan, laughter literally saved him.

It was a gift, he believes, was given to him by God.

Being funny was the key that freed him from a home life racked by addiction and the

loss of his father. He says it was his gift for comedy that took him out of the housing projects

all the way to the height of fame and success. And then that gift, that light, was almost snuffed out.

On June 7, 2014, Tracy, along with six others,

was traveling home from a stand-up performance.

At 1 a.m., their van was struck from behind on the New Jersey Turnpike

by a Walmart tractor trailer and overturned.

Tracy's friend and fellow comedian Jimmy Mack was killed.

Tracy was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, where he would remain in a drug-induced

coma for nearly two weeks.

So you have the greatest story to tell because you're one of the, I think, one of the blessed ones.

Anybody who's been able to live and go to the other side

and come back, you have the greatest story to tell.

When you're in a coma for eight to ten days,

you're basically knocking on the door.

Yeah, you're knocking on the door.

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