Rumor redux: Is Morgan Freeman marrying his step-granddaughter?
Morgan Freeman, 74, is reportedly set to marry 27-year-old step-granddaughter, E'Dena Hines.
Rumor redux: Is Morgan Freeman marrying his step-granddaughter?
Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Sideshow Columnist
Here’s a not-so-new report that’s been making the rounds a few years.
Nearly three years after the National Enquirer alleged that Morgan Freeman was dating his step-granddaughter (“Morgan Freeman ‘incest’ shocker,” read the understated headline), come reports that the 74-year-old Oscar-winning actor plans to wed the 27-year-old in the very near future.
Citing “insiders” in Morgan’s life, the Enquirer claimed in June 2009 that Freeman’s affair with the then-25-year-old E'Dena Hines had been going on for nearly a decade, implying he began sleeping with her when she was 15 or 16, adding to the creep-out factor.
The glossy tabloid claimed Myrna filed for divorce in 2008 over the affair.
E’Dena’s mother, Deena, was adopted by Freeman when he married her biological mother, Jeanette Adair Bradshaw in 1967. Their marriage ended in 1979 and Freeman wed Myrna Colley-Lee in 1984.
The same exact reports – that the alleged couple were to wed – surfaced in the fall of 2009 and in late 2010, when Freeman’s divorce with Myrna was finally finalized. (See Wendy Williams discuss the story on her show in July 2010.)
Freeman has not discussed the matter.
Believe what you will.
- you don't know it's true - good grief, grow up
— delawilson - Just another liberal incest lover who slams the right over all types of issues while he breaks every moral code while looking the other way. Hypocrite!
— blombard - OH GROSS,She may feel as if she hit the jackpot and probably he does too but this story is so gross! I guess as the saying goes incest is best.I feel bad that each of them seem so desperate but money can't buy you everything.— skyangl55
Another one on my "Freak List"— EGGHEAD.- What a pile of bigots or maybe they're all non-readers. Did all of you miss the word "step"- that removes any incest from your racist minds. There was no proof that sex started when she was 15. Jerry Lee Lewis married his cousin and not a lot of people were upset about that- even though she was 14. This woman is 27.— adlerman
- why do you all assume this is true just because a tabloid wrote it? I suppose you all read and believe the tabloids also! Glass half empty. You should all be ashamed.— delawilson
- Common you guys! Morgan Freeman is a very talented actor and if he choose this young lady, so what's wrong? they look perfect in that picture. AGES make no difference. Mother nature tell you the bull is always older and his frock always young. Nothing wrong. But can you imagine if Freeman choose a lady of his same age? he will need an iron to take care of the hundred of wrinkles that an old lady will have. My respects to a talented man.— marquito
- Morgan must be planning to move to Utah with his new bride. He will fit in well in Hilldale, Utah with the Warren Jeffs brigade.— MInuteManPete
- isnt he the producer of TV show Teen Moms? Thought he had some morals! Plus, he's too damn old to be messing with any female.— philly ereader
- He adopted her mother. That makes him her grandfather. It is his adopted granddaughter. If you say this is ok, yo are saying it is ok for adopted children to marry their parents. Even if he had not adopted her mom (which hed did ) he raised this granddaughter in his home, as a parent/grandparent. By saying it is ok, you are saying that it is ok for foster children and step children to have sex with their foster parents or step parents.— Eak
- Its not a perfect world and she doesn't look unhappy, so I wouldn't waste my time worrying bout her choices in life.— blueloudrums
He hopes SideShow will help citizens better understand the vicissitudes of the Consumerist-Military-Industrial-Infotainment Complex, or, in other words, why Britney Spears has a tendency to shave her head, Brangelina to adopt children, and Lindsay Lohan to crave imprisonment. Read SideShow every morning.
Reach Tirdad at sideshow@phillynews.com.
