Eddie Murphy covered funeral costs for celebrity friends who died

Eddie Murphy pulls again the curtain on the darkish aspect of Hollywood.

Within the Netflix documentary “Being Eddie,” the 64-year-old actor and comic opened up about his determination to financially cowl funeral prices and a gravestone for well-known associates, together with musician Rick James, comic Redd Foxx and William Thomas Jr., who famously performed Buckwheat within the movie collection “The Little Rascals.”

“When Redd acquired kicked out, I needed to bury Redd. I needed to bury Redd. I needed to bury Rick. I purchased Buckwheat a gravestone. Buckwheat did not have a gravestone,” Murphy stated within the movie. “I at all times bury these individuals.”

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Eddie Murphy has lined the funeral prices of a number of well-known associates, together with Rick James. (Getty Pictures)

“It tripped me up, these individuals who you… present enterprise and all that, after which after they die, there’s not even the cash to bury these individuals?” he added. ‘The place are their households? The place are these individuals? There are lots of people like that.’

Redd Foxx, finest recognized for his position as Fred Sanford in “Sanford and Son” died within the Nineteen Seventies of a coronary heart assault on October 11, 1991. He was 68.

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William Thomas Jr. (left) died in 1980. Redd Foxx (proper), finest recognized for his position as Fred Sanford on “Sanford and Son” within the Nineteen Seventies, died of a coronary heart assault on October 11, 1991. He was 68. (Getty Pictures)

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“Redd was simply effortlessly humorous. I like Redd,” Murphy, who co-starred with Foxx in “Harlem Nights,” stated within the documentary. “To work with somebody you idolize… On the skin I am unflappable. Inside I am like… ‘Ahh!’ After we did ‘Harlem Nights,’ I needed to make a film with a few of my outdated heroes.”

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James, who collaborated with Murphy on his 1985 single “Celebration All of the Time,” died of coronary heart failure in 2004. Thomas died of a coronary heart assault in 1980.

“I’ve paid for lots of funerals, however I do not go to funerals,” Murphy stated not too long ago USA todayMurphy stated: The one funerals Murphy has attended are these of his organic father, Charles Edward Murphy, and his stepfather, Vernon Lynch.

Eddie Murphy stated he would not need his household and associates to have a funeral for him after he dies. (Michael Kovac/Getty Pictures for Area of interest Imports)

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“If I kick out, I haven’t got a funeral and I lie there and folks come and take a look at me and decrease me into the bottom,” he says. “I’ve to be cremated instantly. And there is no funeral, and there is no memorial or none of that stuff. Simply let it go on. None of that trauma. … It is approach too rattling a lot, a funeral.”

‘I do not give a fuck what they do with it [my ashes]’ he continued. ‘So long as no individuals stand close to my ashes. …I attempt to not be within the urn whereas everybody else is crying. I do not need that second.”

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“Crying is allowed,” he added. “I am simply speaking about the entire ritual of a funeral, that is simply an excessive amount of for me.”