As you know, actor Morgan Freeman was seriously injured late last night when a 1997 Maxima he was driving flipped several times and landed in a ditch.
We now know from TMZ.com that Freeman was lucid and “joking” with his rescuers at the scene of the accident.
So now all attention is focused on the passenger in the car, a woman named Demaris Meyer. We don’t know the extent of Meyer’s injuries, but we know this much about her from TMZ:
48-year-old Meyer is from Memphis, works as an executive assistant at Fed-Ex and is an avid gardener. One source tells us that Meyer is a very close friend of Morgan’s wife Myrna and is often seen at their house for get-togethers.
Freeman, 71, has been married to his wife Myrna Colley-Lee since 1984.
The jokes are flying all over the Internet, and most of them are not funny at all. But why was Freeman driving her car? Surely that’s not a good sign.
Women don’t usually give up the keys to their cars that easily unless there’s some type of emotional bond between the two of them. When a woman lets a man drive her car, she’s saying she’s more than comfortable with giving him complete control.
Maybe she was drunk and he was trying to help get her home. And exactly what was he “joking” about? At his age, it a miracle he made it through an accident like that. Glad to hear he made it.
No its not funny. neither is perpetuating it.
LB Says:
No its not funny. neither is perpetuating it..
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Amen to that…
I read he was joking to the Paps saying “No Freebies!” about them taking pictures. Makes me think he wasn’t so bad off. But he could have been driving the lady home from their house if she was drunk, who knows. Doesn’t always have to be some sort of who’s messing with who thing.
I wish him a speedy recovery. And how come we aren’t reading/hearing much about the lady’s condition? I guess she wasn’t hurt then..?
I’ve gotten to drive many of my female friends’ cars since I was 18 and at least 4 of them get my keys whenever they want to so I don’t buy into that argument about there being something going on when a lady hands a guy her car keys.
Why do we do this to each other? Maybe the lady was sick. Do folks always have to think the negative first? Can’t the media just wait to see if these 2 will be okay and then start asking questions?
In my opinion, he was being a gentleman and offered to drive her specially since it was late at night. just like the media to make something out of nothing. BTW, i didn’t know he was that old. damn black people age good.
you must not know many women because i know of very few who are willing to drive a car any long distance when there is an able body man in the car.
as long as i been old enough to drive most women will give me the keys to drive in a NY minute. my aunts cousins, sister and of course friends would call me up and ask me what was i doing and could i drive them to this place or that place. i never in all of my almost 40 yrs here on earth been in a car and never asked to drive when it came to long distances. whats the use of have a clean and sober brotha with licenses in the car and not have him drive. now if she was a family friend or a good friend of his wife, he probably volunteered to drive her back. i know i once volunteered to drive this elderly couple back home and i took the bus back. when you are a nice person you do nice things.
@ teecee … thank you …
Sandra you know you my Auntie and all .. but DAYUM .. there are just NO good black men in your eyes … give it a rest..
I do not drive when there is a Man who can drive and I ain’t Miss Daisy …
GOOD MORNING SR FAMILY !!
ur views on men n women is totally warped. i want say i c y u r a lesbian, but im sure this isn’t representative of them. what hat did u pull this crap out of? if u were a counselor this world would b f’ed up, 4 real. now women have to have some type of emotional attachment 2 hand over her keys, LMAO. its crazy since u may actually care about the person, but u make it sound so damn intimate.
Well I hope they will be okay.
On another note, I love for a man to drive me around…in their car. I will hand over my keys to a “selected few” but NOT everybody.
I’m really wondering, how in the hell did he flip the car? I mean I’ve almost broken my neck on a steering wheel during a long drive, b/c my dude hit a deer (that I never saw BTW), but flipping the car??????? Did he fall asleep? Was he avoiding something in the road? Was he distracted while changing the station or talking on the phone? Was he startled?
What happened Morgan? Do tell.
Good Mornign All!
SR you are again reaching with this story. I hope for a speedy recovery for Mr. Freeman. SR did something happen to you as a child or in your adult past – that makes you feel/think so negatively on the male population. Its like they are always up to something. Its far an in between taht you make a nice comment about men … seriously. Its your blog and your entitled to have your view but sometimes I really wonder … what happened to Sandra to make her this way?
Im in memphis and dont know why it matters who the passenger was and who she works for?
I really wish people wouldn’t assume.
From what i know, it was late at night. Is so far fetch to think that he was being a gentlemen and drving her home. If a man offers to drive me, even if it is my car, i wouldn’t mind. its the gentlement thing to do….
ugh, i hate when people just assume. I wish morgan a speedy recover. One of my favorite actors.
“When a woman lets a man drive her car, she’s saying she’s more than comfortable with giving him complete control.”……
Or possibly, like others have mentioned, she just didn’t feel like driving. Bizarre I know.
Umm I hate driving, especially on GA roads with their non-driving, I-got-my-license-in-a-parking-lot-azzes.. so I’ll give my keys to a licensed and insured driver to drive me around anytime, no emotional bond necessary!
On a different note, isn’t Morgan Freeman known for creeping with pink toe women?? So aren’t these “jokes” likely to be closer to the truth?
The Driving miss daisy comment was totally no called for but ya know… If my ass was a little saucy I would DEFINITELY let a sober man take the wheel if the dude is with me..
My thoughts exactly msmullens…Perhaps old girl was drunk or tipsy and being a good friend of the family, Morgan offered to drive her home.
Let’s just be thankful brother Morgan and Ms. Meyer are okay.
This accident truly isn’t something to joke about.