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Eddie Murphy was 13 when his girlfriend told him he'd be famous. She could read a newspaper just by touching it. He cared for her for years while she was bedridden. Then, while he was filming The Nutty Professor, every light on the set suddenly went out. On the walk back to his trailer, someone stopped him with news. In the video below, Eddie Murphy tells it himself. Wait for how he sums up the moment. Her name was Sherry Bell. Murphy says she was his girlfriend when he was 13 or 14, and the first person who made him truly believe he'd be famous. She had a neurological condition that kept her bedridden through her 20s, and he looked after her from high school until she passed away during The Nutty Professor. Complex reports it was the first time he had spoken about her publicly.