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Eddie Murphy’s Humor Was Fueled by His Foster Care Experience
Eddie Murphy and his older brother Charlie Murphy lived in foster care for a year and a half until the “Coming to America” star was 8. Eddie told Rolling Stone the pair was taken into foster care when their mother was hospitalized for tuberculosis, which followed her split from his father when Eddie was 3; the experience fueled Murphy’s humor throughout his career.
He told Rolling Stone the brothers weren’t allowed to watch the TV of Ms. Jenkins, their foster mother, and that “she beat on Charlie. She didn’t beat on me, I was too little.”
