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 stuffed out. On June 7, 2014, Tracy, along with six others, was

traveling home from a stand-up performance. At 1am, 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.

Well, you and a coma for eight to ten days, you're basically knocking on the door.

Yeah, you're knocking on the door.

I can't remember. I don't know if I was in the coma or in and out of the coma. I just

came, but I remember just having like, just, I was talking to my dad. He had this green,

this green thing on. I just remember him saying, I'm not ready for you, son.

Really?

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