Morgan Freeman and E’Dena Hines: Odd, Questionable, or Dead Wrong?

January 30th, 2012 - By Brande Victorian

This weekend I watched “Lean on Me” and “Driving Miss Daisy” back to back on OWN and I thought, I love Morgan Freeman, I forgot he’s such a good actor. Then I saw reports that he may have actually married his 27-year-old step-granddaughter, E’Dena Hines, or at least plans to, and I thought, I’m disgusted by Morgan Freeman, I forgot he’s such a creeper.

Rumors of this sordid, decade-long love affair have swarmed for several years and many assumed it was the cause of Morgan’s divorce to his second wife, Myrna Colley-Lee, which was finalized in September 2010 with a settlement (hush money) of $400 million. Reports that Morgan was now free to marry his step-granddaughter and had plans to do so were never confirmed, but they were never denied either. What the reports did was get people talking about the actor and his personal life, asking whether his rumored relationship is wrong, questionable, or simply odd.

On one hand, E’Dena isn’t actually his blood relative, and since she would have been about 17 when they began this alleged relationship that puts her at the age of consent—and him out legal trouble. On the other hand, he’s still family and assumedly played a father-like role in her life. Dating an older man is one thing. Dating a man nearly 50 years older than you who was once married to your grandmother and who raised you is another.

Inappropriate would be an understatement to describe the transition from father-figure to lover, and it certainly suggests other inappropriate behavior could have gone on long before the age of 17. After all, what would spark that sort of attraction at that age—for both Morgan and E’Dina.  She would have had to have some sort of influence that made her think a relationship with her former step-grandfather would be OK and some think Morgan was that influence. Even when you think about Morgan as a man in his mid-70s, dating a younger woman is one thing, and not uncommon in Hollywood. But a young woman you helped rear? That raises more than eyebrows and side eyes.

Morgan’s been likened to Woody Allen who married Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his previous girlfriend Mia Farrow, when he was 56 and she was 21. Although Woody was never Soon-Yi’s legal stepfather, it can be assumed he had a fatherly influence over the course of his 12-year relationship with Mia. Once, when Woody was questioned about the relationship which he claimed wasn’t scandalous in any way, he said equality is not necessarily a requirement in a relationship and that “The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to those things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.”

You may not be able to help who you fall in lust with, but love is an emotion that grows with time and shouldn’t be nurtured in a romantic way with someone of an inappropriate age and relationship like Soon-Yi was when Mia found his nude pictures of her daughter. Morgan Freeman may not have crossed the line in that way, but his relationship with E’Dena is still questionable at the very least. Some things the heart just ought not want or have.

What do you think about Morgan Freeman and E’Dena Hines? Does the age difference and familial relationship matter if she was of age when they began dating and they’re not blood related?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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  • Demosthenez_69

    let’s get this straight. morgan freeman the actor is different from morgan freeman the man. people who say they lose respect for him as an actor (because of what he did that is offensive to them) is no different from losing respect for a man who tells them he’s gay (because they hate gays).  i won’t lose respect to his abilities as an actor, he’s very good and is among the best actors we’ve ever had, just as i never lost any respect to one of my friends who told us she was a lesbian. yes, i do not agree with the ethics of his relationship, but my opinion is he’s free to do what he wants within the law, and if he did anything illegal then the truth of that will come out and he will pay the consequences. 

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  • Churubas Trubas

    I couldn’t care less…

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  • Rhonda

    So many of these liberal relationships have begun because there is a lack of respect for morality. There has been a rapid decrease in morality for a few decades and in-your-face evidence during the Super Bowl half-time shows. There are lines one should not cross; Hollywood celebrities and politicians have unfortunately set the tone with their sense of entitlement. Then folks wonder why we have so many more problems with drop-outs, gangs, teen pregnancies; it’s because those behaviors have been glamorized. The womens movement has told women they have the same desires as men but that is false. Women want commitment and are surprised when they give-it-up before they get that commitment and the fella leaves to find another woman. Men like the womens movement because it gives them free sex without having to “work for it”. The womens movement has messed up years of most the lives of young women, myself included. Thanks Gloria Steinem for making your statements without regard for future consequences but that is typical of the liberal thinkers. They make decisions without thinking things through. Let’s all remember the adage, “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions”.
    I would most definitely say that Mr Freeman has made his decision based on his rather selfish desire for a very young woman without regard for down-the-road consequences nor propriety. It demonstrates an insecurity, a need to be worshiped  & a lack of tact, class and self discipline. I suspect he had desire for the young woman long before she turned 17.

  • Mg

    COME ON YOUR STEP-GRAND-DAUGHTER!!! THAT’S NASTY MORGAN!!!! 

  • Shelia

    If this is true I nolonger respect or admire Morgan Freeman.  He is a creepy old man.

  • Shelia

    If this is true I nolonger respect or admire Morgan Freeman.  He is a creepy old man.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3J7SSUJ63MGXXXT24WSZ33Y6TU Steve

    Morgan if this is TRUE and indeed your step-granddaughter, then u both are sick. I don’t care if she is not of your blood. You were with her grandmother. Man this world is f***** up for real. You are no role model for sure and both of you are a disgrace to the black community. Nasty a****

  • Krissy Lynn

    Still a damn good actor. Don’t care who is married to, not married to, doing, or not doing. It ain’t none of my business. Whether or not it’s Approproate is. Of your decision to make. If he is happy and she is happy, then kudos. Would you want a bunch of people you don’t know critizing you for your relationship? No? Then why do it to him? Do you personally know Morgan freeman? Do you personally know, first hand, how this relationship came to be? No? Then why pass judgements? Just sayin’

  • Selainm

    This is just plain ole wrong I don’t care how u dress it up wrong is wrong period

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  • sam66

    And when is a freakin rumor crediable.  I just read another article that said he is with another young girl.  Get your facts straight before you start spreading gossip becaust that’s  all this is.

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