Morgan confessed he feels an ‘attachment to the sea’. Speaking to The Guardian he explained: ‘I always wanted an earring. It has to do with my attachment to the sea.
He said: ‘When I was a kid, I saw a pirate movie with Burt Lancaster, who wore an earring. I thought that was sexy. Then I learned that sailors wore gold earrings to pay for funerals if they died in foreign lands. I’m a sailor, so that nailed it’ (pictured 2024)
‘Why was Morgan Freeman wearing a black glove? #Oscars2025.’
However the star has been spotted with the glove for several years to help alleviate an agonising health issue.
The Se7en star previously revealed he suffers from fibromyalgia — a condition for which there is no cure — following nerve damage after a serious car crash.
In 2008, the vehicle he was driving flipped multiple times near his home in Charleston, Mississippi, with the actor having to be cut free by emergency workers before being airlifted to a hospital.
Morgan, who was 71 at the time of the accident, was reportedly ‘hospitalised for four days after the collision and his injuries included a broken arm and elbow’.
He told Esquire magazine in 2012 that it had also left his hand paralysed, with the condition causing pain ‘up and down the arm’.
‘That’s where it gets so bad. Excruciating.’
Fibromyalgia is thought to affect between 1.8million and 2.9million people in the UK and roughly 4 million adults in the US.
What causes the condition is unknown. But it is believed to be related to misfiring brain signals changing the way the nerves carry pain messages around the body.
It causes a range of symptoms including increased pain sensitivity, muscle stiffness, fatigue and problems concentrating, as well as low mood, according to the NHS.
There are limited treatments for fibromyalgia — and campaigners have long been fighting for further research into the condition.
