Tracy Morgan had a bout of food poisoning while in the front row at a New York Knicks game this week, the comedian revealed to fans on Instagram on Tuesday, assuaging concerns about his health after video of the incident went viral online.
“Thank you for all your concern! I’m doing ok now and doctors say it was food poisoning,’ Morgan wrote to his 915,000 fans on the platform. “Appreciate my MSG family for taking such good care of me and I need to shout out to the crew that had to clean that up. Thank you! More importantly, the Knicks are now 1-0 when I throw up on the court so maybe I’ll have to break it out again in the playoffs.”
A photo of Morgan giving a thumbs-up appears with his Instagram update. The 30 Rock Emmy winner has monitoring devices attached to his torso in the image, but he appears to be in good condition.
Morgan became ill during the third quarter of the game, People reported on Monday. The game was delayed for about 10 minutes while the actor was tended to by stadium staff.
Videos and photos posted online by those at the game at Madison Square Garden showed Morgan looking sick and vomiting before he was escorted out of the arena in a wheelchair while holding what appeared to be a white towel up to his face that was covered in red stains; he seemed to be bleeding, one commenter posted online.
This is not the first health scare for Morgan that’s taken place in public. In 2012, he collapsed outside a building in Park City while attending the Sundance Film Festival; he later wrote on Twitter that the high altitude in Utah “shook up this kid from Brooklyn.” His publicist, Lewis Kay, said at the time that the incident resulted from a combination of exhaustion and altitude. Morgan returned to work on 30 Rock just a couple of days later.
He also famously survived a near fatal car accident in 2014, when a Walmart truck slammed into the back of a limo-van carrying Morgan and two others. He was seriously injured but made a full recovery. But his friend comedian James “Jimmy Mack” McNair, died in the accident.
