Jamie Foxx opens up about his previous health scare that left him hospitalized for more than two weeks.
During Foxx’s newly Netflix special released on Tuesday titled: “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was,” the comedian shares he suffered a brain bleed that led to a stroke. “It is a mystery,” he said. “We still don’t know exactly what happened to me.”
“April 11, I was having a bad headache and I asked my boy for an aspirin. And I realized quickly that when you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f**k to do,” he said.
“Before I could get the aspirin I went out,” he said. “I don’t remember 20 days.”
Foxx thanked his sister, who is “4 foot 11 of nothing but pure love,” for driving him to the nearest Atlanta hospital. Foxx say they ended up at the Piedmont Hospital, where a doctor told him that he would die without an operation, the actor said.
Following the operation, a doctor revealed that Foxx might make a full recovery “but it’s going to be the worst year of his life,” Foxx recounted.
The comedian added, “I lost everything, but the only thing I could hold onto was my sense of humor. If I could stay funny, I could stay alive.”
Back in 2023, Foxx revealed he stayed out of the public eye because he didn’t want his fans to see him in such conditions. “I know a lot of people were waiting or wanting to hear updates but to be honest with you, I just didn’t want you to see me like that, man,” he said in an Instagram video. “I want you to see me laughing, having a good time, partying, cracking a joke, doing a movie, television show. I didn’t want you to see me with tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was gonna make it through.”
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