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Morgan Freeman may accept played God on the big screen. But did he aloof accommodated his maker? And did he absolutely do an audio arrangement of Fifty Shades of Grey afore he kicked the bucket?

Word advance like bonfire bygone that the 75-year-old acting fable had aback anesthetized away, acknowledgment to a Facebook folio that's so far garnered 66,000 likes. At the aforementioned time, a YouTube video alike aftermost Sunday purportingly featuring Freeman address some annoying selections from E.L. James bondage-themed best-seller.

Well, E! Account has looked into these rumors and can absolutely say the acknowledgment is...

Who dead Morgan Freeman?

So false!

"Morgan is animate and well, and joins the continued account of actors who accept been victimized by this hoax," a rep for Freeman tells us.

This isn't the aboriginal time the amateur has been dead off by the Internet. Two years ago, the Twitterverse lit up with rumors of his abortive demise, which acutely angry out to be false.

Morgan Freeman and step-granddaughter abjure assurance rumors

No agnosticism the account that he's A-OK will appear as a abatement to his countless of fans, abounding of whom took to announcement comments cogent their abuse over the ruse. Those activity bamboozled ability accept additionally ample it out a little earlier, by the way, if they'd agitated to apprehend the Facebook page's "about section," which states: "He's still animate and well, stop assertive what you see on the Internet."

As for the Fifty Shades blow (we'd appearance you the vid, but it's NSFW), as it turns out, the audio excerpts are absolutely the assignment of actor-comedian Josh Robert Thompson, who's acclaimed for celebrity impressions including Matthew McConaughey, Robert De Niro and, yes, Morgan Freeman.