Actor Tray Chaney saw his son celebrate his 19th birthday from a hospital bed in the ICU this Sunday but he had a glimmer of good news on Tuesday ... telling TMZ his son's on the mend!!!
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00:00you actually live outside of atlanta am i correct yeah i'm in uh locust grove henry county
00:09yeah i'm in locust grove henry county yeah well that's that's where i lived
00:15yeah lived um well you survived a tornado um i see i see you've been praising god every step
00:24of the way your wife and your son they're recovering as well uh can you run us through
00:30those events the other day i'm proud to announce that um malachi is in stable condition and after
00:37spending six days in the icu at grady hospital he's now moved to a regular room so he's not in icu no
00:47more um but it's going to be a long journey and a long road to recovery we're not out of the
00:58hospital he's still in the hospital but he's in another room because right now with the broken
01:04ribs with every bone in his face fractured we're talking about head we're talking about
01:11the upper body cuts all over his upper body he didn't have no cuts on his legs or anything
01:18because he had on sweatpants thank god um but
01:23we went to wool with a tornado you know and came out on top father and son and malachi cheney is
01:33he's my hero and in in in the tough part is watching him be stable and respond the best way he can
01:43and every single day he doesn't know what happened we're not telling him you were thrown 300 feet out
01:51of a out of our house we we no longer have a house and we almost died you know but
01:58i just i i i thank jehovah man i thank jehovah god he had to spend his 19th birthday which was
02:08june 1st in icu man we had a great day it was a great day leading up to uh 230 we went we went to
02:18get something to eat around 230 you know after we left ticket between 12 and 1 and um went in the house
02:27and malachi just doing what he regularly do man he like dad showing me videos on the gram and
02:34and talking about how much fun he was having in college and he just got his license you know
02:40last year and he we were talking about you know the cars that he whatever car he wanted wanted you
02:46know he got a job and and then he was just like dad why i look so gloomy outside that's exactly what
02:53he said i said man i don't know it's been raining all day malachi's birthday was june 1st sunday so
02:59um we had a trip plan to go back home to where we from washington dc to like surprise the family my
03:05niece graduated and we just was talking like all right man i'm gonna go pack and i sat on my bed
03:10at like three o'clock you know because i'll never forget sitting on my bed just i was gonna pack and
03:19then i was gonna take a little nap before my wife got home so we could go to airport and um
03:23i heard the wind but it just it just didn't sound like wind it was just like
03:31like a you know i'm saying you you hear that and you like all right well i don't know what that is
03:37then the rain the rain didn't sound like rain if you can understand what i'm saying and uh
03:46it's more like a hail sound more like more hard it was more like a hail sound and it sound like
03:52a train was coming was in my backyard
03:56and um i just remember turning to my right and my walls and my tvs and my dressers
04:07and my bed turned upside down and i levitated in the air
04:12and um
04:15so i i levitated in the air
04:20and i just remember covering covering covering like this yelling my son's name out next thing
04:29you know i just i woke up with my face in the mud with covers wrapped around my body but my face was
04:38in the mud and i felt like i was suffocating so i was just trying my best to like get out of the
04:44covering like you were trapped in the covers and it was like i was trapped in the cover yeah it was
04:49like it was over me but with my face in in mud and dirt and um when i finally
04:58when when the cover finally came off
05:03i looked to my left and i and i looked at nails from bricks
05:10my tv my my refrigerator my kitchen and my roof was gone
05:20and
05:24and i jumped up i jumped up and i said where's my son my head was bleeding this i came away with
05:32a scratch on my head but it was a knot
05:34and it was bleeding and and and and i gotta really really thank my neighbors because every neighbor
05:42in my neighborhood
05:46was was was was flying to just come to my aid and when the neighbors got there i jumped up and um
05:58i said where's my son at and my neighbors like trey you gotta relax because
06:02you gotta relax because you know i don't know if you understand what just happened but
06:08you a tornado just just just took you took your house but i wasn't thinking about nothing i wasn't
06:16thinking about nothing i was thinking about malachi i think you had a lot of adrenaline pumping you know
06:21it's yeah
06:23my house came down my house is done nothing
06:28so my next door neighbor my house was the house on the end so my next door neighbor
06:40the windows in his house the roof of another neighbor's house as i'm remembering
06:46was was damaged but i'm sitting i'm sitting in
06:51a neighbor's house right now my man dre from game changers magazine network
06:58he said a brick from my house flew in his house his window is damaged another horrific
07:06picture of my wife getting out of her truck me on the ground from vomiting at least three times my body's in
07:15shock i'm looking for my son i can't find him and me locking eyes with her
07:22and watching her collapse in my neighbor's arms luckily my neighbors were surrounded around her
07:26when she pulled up because i don't know my wife could have fell out hit her head
07:30whatever the woods all the way in the back of my house
07:33three of my neighbors trey we found him we found him he's right here he's right here
07:43i said is he breathing yes he's breathing because i couldn't i couldn't go over there i couldn't i i
07:52i couldn't yet by that time the paramedics were running over there with with what they ran over there with and um
08:06watching them watching me hear my son scream it was it was a great sign that he was alive he was living
08:15but then watching him watching them push him and put him up in an ambulance while me and my wife was standing there
08:25how much distance would you estimate he got your son got thrown from the house it was it was 300 feet
08:33that's what that's what i was told from the paramedics from the police and every day you know you
08:40you hear people be strong be strong but it's like be strong but i'm human you know i'm saying like
08:50period so so so even it's cool you know yeah all right i'm strong i'm i'm i'm i'm one of god's
08:59kids you know i'm god's child but at the same time if if you ain't waking up under no house with no
09:07bricks on your back and your son ain't been or your loved one ain't been throwing 300 feet
09:12i can't really talk to you about nothing out of the shack too man shack shaquille o'neal man he he did a
09:19video for malachi yesterday man and like i said malachi stable he in a lot of pain so he might be on
09:25the medication but during this time he was able to open his eyes a little bit he like dad i love you
09:31dad i said kyle i got something for you uncle shack shack got on there man i showed kyle that and my son
09:38smiled i know what it did to him i know what it did to him his smile just lit up shout out to the
09:46president of savannah state university his school his college day it and like i said man this is it's only
09:55six days me my wife aisha and my son malachi we got a long long we got a lifetime to go because i don't
10:04know i don't know what's what's what's headed or what's coming or and i'm not trying to figure it out