The lead singer of the Four Tops said a Detroit-area hospital restrained him and ordered a psychological exam after refusing to believe that he was part of the Motown music group.
Alexander Morris, who is Black, filed a lawsuit Monday against Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital in Warren, alleging racial discrimination and other misconduct during an April 2023 visit for chest pain and breathing problems.
Hospital staff “wrongfully assumed he was mentally ill when he revealed his identity as a celebrity figure,” the lawsuit says.
Morris is not an original member, but he joined the group in 2019.
The lawsuit says a nurse finally believed Morris was in the Four Tops and the psychological exam was canceled.
The hospital offered a $25 gift card as an apology, but Morris refused to accept it, the lawsuit says.
So wrong on so many levels
let me count the levels:
What was the relevance of him mentioning to hospital staff about being a celebrity in a singing group? Is it like people who run marathons can’t not tell everybody they ran a marathon? Is it like vegans who can’t not tell everybody they’re vegan?
He joined the singing group in 2019. That’s kinda like telling everyone you’re Elvis Presley even though you’re just an Elvis impersonator 50 years after he died.
And of course the obvious reasons this whole story was wrong, which everyone is already talking about. The fact that the hospital staff decided he was insane, then were proven wrong and tried to apologize with a $25 gift card.