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Morgan Freeman is firing back against the woman who was in the passenger seat the night he crashed his car in Mississippi, saying she was partly to blame for the near-fatal accident.
The woman, Demaris Meyer, is suing the 71-year-old actor in U.S. District Court in Oxford, Miss., claiming he was negligent when the car he was driving ran off the side of a road in the Mississippi Delta and flipped several times.
Freeman's attorney, Jack H. Hayes Jr., responded to the lawsuit Friday in a four-page court document denying almost all the allegations or saying Freeman doesn't know enough about them to form an opinion, reports the Associated Press.
The film star admitted driving the car, and that it left the road and "sustained significant damages." The filing said he "would show (Meyer) is comparatively negligent," though it did not describe what that means.
Both Meyer and Freeman were seriously injured in the August crash, which happened on a two-lane highway about five miles west of Freeman's home in Charleston.
Meyer, who lives in Memphis, Tenn., sued Freeman in February for medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost wages, permanent disability and property damage. The lawsuit alleged Freeman was drinking that night, though it stops short of saying he was intoxicated. No charges were filed.
