Comedic actors — like Eddie Murphy — are so skilled at always making us laugh, that we sometimes overlook that they, too, may be going via life pains…just like the rest of us. Eddie’s past revelation about how his biological Father was viciously killed is a reminder of that reality.
Eddie once speak out, to Rolling Stone Magazine, shocking details of how his father, Charles Edward Murphy (not pictured), was killed when Eddie was a kid. First, Eddie explained this:
My mom (pictured above) and dad broke up when I was three, and he passed away when I was 8, so I have very dim memories. Every now and then, I wonder what it would be like if he was still here.
Eddie then described how his father was murdered at just 28 years old:
“He (Eddie’s father, Charles) was a victim of the Murphy charm chuckles. A woman stabbed my dad. I never got all the logistics. It was supposed to be one of those crimes of passion: ‘If I can’t have you, then no one else will’ kind of deal. Someone said to me one day, ‘That’s why you don’t trust women.’ Get the fu*k outta here. What are you, a fu*%ing psychiatrist?” said Eddie.
“I don’t think the 2 have anything to do with each other. But I was really fu*%ed up about his demise. It was really traumatic.”
Eddie also said, “I do have two fathers,” referring to his biological dad, Charles, and his stepfather, Vernon.
Eddie’s stepfather, Vernon Lynch Sr. (shown above with his wife/Eddie’s mom, Lillian), passed away in 2001 from lung cancer. He loved Eddie and his brother, Charlie, as his own, helping raise them since they were young kids. Vernon died in Eddie’s arms and family friends said that changed Eddie. He went from always smiling and crackin’ jokes on them, to very serious and withdrawn for a long time.
A family friend once opened: “As Vernon’s breathing became more and more shallow, Eddie began to cry and leaned over and whispered in his ear: ‘You’ve been a wonderful dad, and I hope I’m half the dad to my kids that you’ve been to me. I love you, man.’” Hie Father’s demise, combined with pain of losing his brother, Charlie Murphy are very sad indeed.. Thankfully, through it all, Eddie keeps proving this Old School saying true: ‘What doesn’t kill you, can only make you stronger.’h