Friday, February 3, 2012
Tracy Morgan's Mom Goes Public with Family Fight
Posted by Kyle Swenson on Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:02 PM
“Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face,” is how the SNL and 30 Rock funny man laid it out himself while sitting down with NPR’s Terry Gross in 2009 for a surprise kleenex-soaker of an interview upon the release of his hard knocks memoir, I Am the New Black. Barely damming the waterworks while Gross uncharacteristically fumbled around for responses, Morgan detailed his tough life growing up in Brooklyn, a situation that came to a dramatic climax when he chose to leave behind his mother and live with his recovering drug-addict dad.
“It was a terrible situation, and it wasn’t my mother’s fault. Something just went off in me and I just went off,” he said at the time referring to the decision to leave. “I heard my mother cry, and it just broke me down. I never meant to hurt my mother.”
Whatever exorcism Morgan got from taking his broken home situation public, the comedian is in for another round of media attention spotlighting his family life. Morgan’s mother, Alice Warden, a 61-year-old cancer survivor now living in Youngstown, has been making the media rounds recently, telling everyone from the New York Daily News to the Youngstown Vindicator about how her son won’t open his wallet to fend off an incoming foreclosure.
Warden has been living on Youngstown’s rough south side since ’95. Last year, she lost her job at the Mahoning-Youngstown Community Action Program. Her unemployment benefits have run out, and she can’t handle her mortgage payments.
As a last resort, she asked Morgan to help her out. The actor initially agreed, but later Warden was contacted by an accountant who offered to hand over a one-time payment of $2,000. Warden owes about $25,000 on the property. She turned down the offer.
Morgan has released the following statement:
“I am saddened that these untrue stories about me have people questioning my commitment to my family,” he said. “For reasons that are between us, I have not seen my mother in 11 years and outside of a random call here and there have had little to no contact with my sister. We all have personal family issues that we have to deal with in life, but I choose to deal with mine in private and not through the media.”
Now, we’re going to say the obvious here, but we’re only getting one side of the story — it’s hard to imagine what’s gone on between mother and son. If you spend some time wading through the Gross interview, you get the sense we’re talking about some heavy shit. That said, when you ink the deal with the Dark Forces to become rich and famous, we’re pretty sure there’s a clause in there that requires you to take care of your mom when she’s about to be tossed out on the street.
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The 5th Commandment says to Honor thy Father AND thy Mother.
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dislikeYeah take care of your mother no matter what the issues are.You only get one mother in life so put aside the bull and help your mother out.You might get down and out who else going to take care of you.Peace
$2,000? What an insult. $25,000 is nothing on a successful actor/commedian's income. He's got to be taking in at least $250,000 a year. He should be grateful.
I prefer to stay neutral because we, don't know the circumstances. To make a judgement call about honor, respect, we don't know the issues or what happened in Tracy's personal life. It's all words and the public has no right to past judgement unless they know the flip side of the coin.
Denzel Washington directed a movie where the young man search for his mother and when he finally located her, he oberved how she lived, and he know the answer.
The answer is obvious, she didn't love herself. So, how could she give love to him? His comment resonate in my mind today and always will; I'm still standing. Everyone is not meant to be a parent.
In conclusion, GREED! His mother thinks her son owes her something. He does not owe his mother "NOTHING" She owes him.
Not one of you has any idea how Tracy Morgan's family dynamic works. Just because people are family does not mean that they are good people worthy of assistance. Too often people are willing to villanize those that throw their famiy to the wolves without knowing the background story. I have family that subsides off nothing but family help. Their hands are always out. Am I or he supposed to provide for them in addition to my immediate family solely because we are blood. No. Not one bit. Family can be some of the biggest enemies of an individual because they expect that help instead of doing their part to help themselves. Judge as l I gaurantee you all will--none of you, nor myself walks in his shoes.
