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The end: Myrna Colley-Lee and Freeman at an event

Just days after injuring himself in a serious car accident with a mystery woman, actor Morgan Freeman has announced he is divorcing his wife after 24 years of marriage. A spokesman for Freeman - who is in hospital recovering from a broken arm, a broken elbow and minor shoulder damage said he is seeking a divorce from his wife, costumer Myrna Colley-Lee.

"(They) are involved in a divorce action," the actor's Mississippi-based attorney and business partner Bill Luckett said. "And for legal and practical purposes,  have been separated since December of 2007."

The mystery woman in Freeman's car at the time it rolled has been identified as Demaris Meyer, a friend of Freeman's.

The jaws of life were required to cut both passengers from the wreckage when the car swerved off the road and rolled end-over-end on Sunday night, on a highway near Mississippi.

"He was lucid, conscious and was talking, joking with some of the rescue workers," said an onlooker.

Freeman's publicist Donna Lee said the Oscar winner would make a full recovery.