Morgan Freeman Getting Divorce

James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Wednesday, August 6, 2008

I noted that when Morgan Freeman’s car accident took place, he was riding with a female “friend.”

Now, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story:

Days after he was involved in a serious car accident, a friend of “Dark Knight” star Morgan Freeman confirmed to Access Hollywood that the actor is getting a divorce. Freeman and his wife of 24-years, costumer Myrna Colley-Lee, “are involved in a divorce action,” the actor’s Mississippi-based attorney and business partner Bill Luckett told Access Hollywood. “And for legal and practical purposes, (Freeman and Colley-Lee) have been separated since December of 2007.”

Freeman was involved in an accident late Sunday night, during which the car he was driving flipped end-over-end. The actor and his female passenger, identified as Demaris Meyer, were driving on Mississippi Highway 32 in a rural area of Tallahatchie County at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday evening, when Freeman’s car went off the right side of the road and flipped over. Freeman and Meyer, who has been described as the actor’s friend, were on the way to Freeman’s home when the accident occurred.