Morgan Freeman was a presenter Sunday evening on the 2023 Oscars — and viewers have been left questioning why he was sporting a black glove on his left hand.
Whereas folks have been involved, sporting a glove isn’t out of the extraordinary for Freeman, and there’s a purpose behind it.
Freeman, 85, was in a critical automobile accident in 2008 when his automobile flipped a number of instances on a Mississippi freeway.
The accident was practically deadly and left his hand paralyzed.
“They’d to make use of the jaws of life [hydraulic cutters] to extract him from the car,” a newspaper editor said in The Guardian on the time. “He was lucid, acutely aware. He was speaking, joking with a number of the rescue staff at one level.”
Freeman suffered extreme nerve harm and wears a compression glove to maintain the blood flowing.
“I suffered nerve harm and it hasn’t gotten higher. I can’t transfer it,” he told People in 2010.
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He wore the elbow-length glove as he escorted Margot Robbie, 32, onto the stage on the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to mark 100 years of Warner Bros.
