Jamie Foxx is again and higher than ever.
After he suffered from a thriller sickness final yr which left him hospitalized in a weekslong coma, Foxx, 55, set the document straight on his well being disaster.
Throughout his Netflix comedy particular, “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was,” he detailed what led to his medical emergency. The particular was filmed in Atlanta in October.
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Grammy winner Jamie Foxx suffered a “medical complication” in April 2023 whereas filming “Back in Action” with Cameron Diaz. (Jason Kempin)
Foxx emotionally broke down in tears a number of occasions all through the particular as he defined to followers what led him to a weekslong coma.
“I was fighting for my life,” Foxx started to elucidate. “April 11, I was having a bad headache and I asked my boy for an aspirin… before I could get the aspirin… I went out. I don’t remember 20 days.”
The “Beat Shazam” host stated he was on the point of loss of life after he handed out and went right into a coma that lasted a number of weeks. Foxx’s well being was failing terribly, and his vitals have been down.
After Foxx went to the primary physician, they gave him a cortisone shot and despatched him house. Nonetheless, his sister Deidra Dixon recalled Foxx being “lethargic” and knew one thing was “wrong” with him. She continued to search out different hospitals and urged medical doctors to assist her brother additional.
Jamie Foxx gave an evidence behind his well being scare after his thriller sickness left him in a weekslong coma. (Getty Photographs)
Medical doctors shared with Foxx’s household on the time of his hospitalization that “he’s having a brain bleed that’s led to a stroke.”
“If I don’t go in his head right now, we’re going to lose him,” the physician at Piedmont Hospital declared.
After Foxx’s surgical procedure, his physician stated to his sister, “You were right, your prayers are answered. We didn’t find where it was coming from, but he is having a stroke. He may be able to make a full recovery, but it’s going to be the worst year of his life.”
Foxx continued, “I was so dizzy from the stroke… 20 days I don’t remember. On May 4, I woke up. When I woke up, I found myself in a wheelchair. I couldn’t walk.”
“The “Django Unchained” actor thought his stroke was a “prank” at the time. He refused to see a therapist during his recovery until one healthcare worker demanded Foxx to snap out of it, since he was convinced, “Jamie Foxx do not get strokes.”
“Pay attention, you gotta knock this s— off, this complete Jamie Foxx s—, cease this boastful bulls—, that stroke doesn’t give a f— about who you might be,” the therapist told him.
Foxx claimed that moment gave him a reality check as he snapped out of it and worked hard toward his recovery.
At the time of the medical scare, Foxx was in Georgia working alongside Cameron Diaz for the upcoming Netflix film, “Again in Motion.” He received care in a hospital in Georgia, as he was “having checks run.” Foxx returned to the “Again in Motion” set in January 2024.
Jamie Foxx’s has two daughters, Corinne and Anelise. (Gregg DeGuire)
Foxx said his daughters, Corinne and Anelise, and his sister “held it down” at the hospital. Corinne refused to let anyone else visit Foxx since she did not want anyone to see him hospitalized. He revealed doctors gave him “each medicine” but it was not “working.”
Foxx added that he leaned heavily on his faith during his near-death experience until he witnessed a miracle.
Anelise strummed the guitar for him while he was in a coma. Once her guitar-playing became a regular routine in the hospital, Foxx’s vitals miraculously began to pick up.
“My vitals are so unhealthy, they will lose me. That’s when a miracle occurred, and that miracle was working by means of my youngest daughter. She’s 14 – I didn’t need her to see me like that, however she snuck into my hospital room with my guitar. ‘I know what my daddy needs,’” Foxx explained.
“When she was enjoying, my vitals… went down… it was God in that guitar. Religious defibrillator.”
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While doctors could not explain what exactly happened to Foxx, he finally woke up from his coma after his daughter continued to play the guitar for him.
Meanwhile, during his Netflix special, Foxx compared Sean “Diddy” Combs to the devil.
“Your life doesn’t flash earlier than your face. It was form of oddly peaceable. I noticed the tunnel. I didn’t see the sunshine,” Foxx said.
“It was form of scorching within the tunnel… am I going to the flawed place? I regarded on the finish of the tunnel, and I assumed I noticed the satan… Or was that Puffy? I’m f—ing round but when that was Puffy, he had a flaming bottle of Johnson and … no, I’m simply kidding.”
Foxx referenced the claims that Combs was responsible for his hospitalization.
“Web stated ‘Puffy tried to kill me.’ I do know what you’re pondering ‘Diddy?’” Foxx joked. “Hell naw – I left them events early. I used to be out by 9:00 – one thing don’t look proper. It’s slippery in right here.”
The comedian, throughout his special, said, “If I can keep humorous, I can keep alive,” as he did several impressions, including President-elect Donald Trump in his stand-up.
Foxx’s medical scare rocked headlines in April 2023.
Corinne revealed on April 12 that her father was recovering from a medical complication.
“Fortunately, on account of fast motion and nice care, he’s already on his method to restoration,” she wrote on social media at the time. “We all know how beloved he’s and admire your prayers. The household asks for privateness throughout this time.”
Nick Cannon, left, shared he had Jamie Foxx’s blessing to speak about his health. (Johnny Louis/WireImage)
In May 2023, Nick Cannon filled in for Foxx as the host for the musical game show, “Beat Shazam.” The next month, Foxx skipped out on his film premiere for his new movie, “They Cloned Tyrone.” On the time, his co-stars revealed he was not responding to telephone calls amid his medical thriller.
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Three months after he privately battled his “medical complication,” he spoke out about the matter in a video he posted to Instagram where he admitted he went to “hell and again.”
Jamie Foxx said he went “to hell and again” during his health scare. (Karwai Tang)
Foxx previously mentioned that his sister Deidra and daughter Corinne saved his life.
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“I can’t let you know how nice it feels to have your loved ones kick-in in such a approach … ya’ll know they saved it hermetic. They did not let nothing out. They protected me, and that is what I hope everybody can have in moments like these.”
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Foxx also addressed rumors that spread while he was in the hospital claiming he had been blinded or paralyzed, and said the allegations were not true, but that he had gone “to hell and again.”
“My highway to restoration had some potholes as properly, however I am coming again, and I’m capable of work,” he said at the time.
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Jamie Foxx first found fame on “In Residing Coloration” before starring in his own self-titled sitcom. (ABC Photo Archives)
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The Grammy winner has eight projects slated for the future, according to IMDb, and wrapped filming on “Again in Motion” this year after production was halted following his medical scare.
A long-awaited Mike Tyson biopic has been in the works for nearly a decade. Tyson will serve as an executive producer with Foxx for the film, in addition to Antoine Fuqua and Martin Scorsese.
Born Eric Marlon Bishop, he changed his name as a tribute to comedian Redd Foxx, a pioneer in the civil rights movement who found television success portraying Fred G. Sanford on “Sanford and Son.”
Foxx shares Corinne, 30, with ex Connie Kline. The “Ray” star also has daughter Anelise Bishop, 15, with ex Kristin Grannis.
Foxx ended his Netflix special highlighting all of his projects through the span of his successful career — from “In Residing Coloration,” his role in Michael Mann’s biopic, “Ali,” “Rio,” “Django Unchained” and his character Ray Charles in the Oscar-winning biopic, “Ray.” Foxx concluded his special by performing his popular songs, such as “Gradual Jamz” and “Gold Digger,” with Kanye West.
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Fox News Digital’s Tracy Wright contributed to this report.
