Tracy Morgan Considered Suicide After Crash

Tracy Morgan mulled suicide after the car crash that nearly killed him 21 months ago.

But he describes in a new interview how his sense of humor ultimately healed.

“If my funny ever went away, I’d die,” the “Saturday Night Live” veteran tells Rolling Stone in an emotional profile. “And I thought I was going to die for a long time. My thoughts — I was in a very dark place. I was sitting right here, contemplating suicide.”

He faced a long road to recovery after emerging from an eight-day coma. He had multiple broken bones caused by a Walmart truck slamming into the Mercedes party bus in which he was riding. Doctors didn’t know if Morgan would survive — or, if he did, whether or not he would recover full brain function.

The gruesome six-car collision on June 7, 2014 also left his friend, James (Jimmy Mack) McNair, dead.

“Emotionally, it’s hard for me to deal with,” the 47-year-old Morgan told the magazine. “I asked one. “I asked everybody to be there that night. I have to live with that. But I had to forgive myself. I know Jimmy would want it like that."

During the down times, it helped to listen to Bob James’ melancholy jazz tune, “Angela,” best known as the theme from the sitcom “Taxi.”

Morgan believes he crossed over into the afterlife during his coma, but that it just wasn’t his time to die.

“Maybe when I was in heaven, Richard Pryor said something to me,” Morgan said. “I feel funnier than I ever felt.”

Since the tragic accident, Morgan has clawed his way back. He hosted “SNL” last October and launched a comedy tour this spring.

But there are times when the high-profile comedian simply isn’t in a joking mood. Like the time last summer when another driver yelled at him for driving a Lamborghini after his emotional interview on the “Today” show.

“You were just on Matt Lauer a week ago, crying, and now you’re driving this f------ fancy car,” the driver admonished.

Morgan says he got out of his car to face his accuser.

“I said, ‘Yo, you woulda took that f-----’ hit for me? You’d have jumped in front of a Walmart truck doing 65 miles per hour? You’d have lost your best friend for me? Motherf-----, you would’ve took that for me?,’” Morgan recalled to Rolling Stone.

“He said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘A man died. And you’re worried about a f------ car?’”

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