Thursday August 7, 2008
Morgan Freeman visits "Late Show with David Letterman" on June 23, 2008 in New York.
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Morgan Freeman was discharged from a Tennessee hospital Thursday following surgery from a weekend car crash, the Associated Press reports.
"I left the hospital today just after 12 noon, Memphis time," he tells Entertainment Tonight exclusively. "I'm doing very well. I feel real good. I just really, I thank the staff at Elvis Presley [medical facility] and many, many thanks to my many well-wishers. It's great to know people care about you."
Freeman, 71 — who suffered a broken arm, broken elbow and shoulder damage after his car flipped over on a Mississippi highway on Sunday — underwent surgery on Monday.
On Tuesday, his rep said he was "doing well," even chatting with family members who visited him.
The Dark Knight star exits the hospital a day after his business partner announced that the actor and his wife of 24 years, costumer Myrna Colley-Lee, "are involved in a divorce action."
See photos of Hollywood's ugliest divorces.
Mississippi-based attorney Bill Luckett said "for legal and practical purposes, [Freeman and Colley-Lee] have been separated since December of 2007."
The couple met in 1976 when both were working off-Broadway.
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