Eddie Murphy has recently exposed the dark side of Hollywood in a new documentary.
The Nutty Professor actor revealed that he used to pay funeral costs for celebrity friends including musician Rick James, comedian Redd Foxx, and William Thomas Jr. in a Netflix documentary, Being Eddie.
In the documentary, Eddie recalled, “When Redd kicked out, I had to bury Redd. I had to bury Redd. I had to bury Rick. I bought Buckwheat a tombstone. Buckwheat didn’t have no tombstone.”
“I’m always burying these people,” said the 64-year-old.
Shrek star shared that sometimes it “tripped” him out because these “show business people when, they pass away, there’s not even the money to bury these people”.
“Where are their families? Where are these people? It’s a lot of people like that,” mentioned Eddie.
Remembering Redd, who died of heart attack in 1991, the Harlem Nights co-star described the late actor “funny effortlessly” in the documentary.
“To work with somebody, you idolise… On the outside, I’m unflappable. On the inside, I was like… ‘Ahh!’ When we were doing ‘Harlem Nights,’ I wanted to do a movie with some of my old heroes,” stated Eddie.
Another late actor Rick, who collaborated with Eddie on his 1985 single, Party All the Time, died of heart failure in 2004. William, on the other hand, died of a heart attack in 1980.
Earlier in an interview with USA Today, The Pickup actor pointed out that he “has paid for a lot of funerals, but I don’t go to funerals”.
Meanwhile, Eddie had attended only two funerals in his lifetime and they were of his biological father, Charles Edward Murphy, and his stepfather, Vernon Lynch.
