Jamie Foxx Opens Up About Last Year’s Medical Scare

Jamie Foxx is opening up about his medical scare final 12 months, revealing for the primary time how the entire thing began.

In a video shared to X, as reported by PEOPLE, the 56-year-old actor spoke to a gaggle of individuals in Phoenix, AZ about how his sudden hospitalization started.

Within the clip, Foxx explains that it began someday in April 2023 when he had a foul headache, asking his buddy for some Advil. What occurred after that, nonetheless, is considerably of a thriller to the star, who says he got here to twenty days later with no recollection of what occurred.

“I requested my boy for an Advil,” the Spider-Man: No Approach House star revealed earlier than snapping his fingers to point a time skip. “I used to be gone for 20 days.”

He continued, “I don’t bear in mind something. So that they instructed me — I’m in Atlanta — so that they instructed me my sister and my daughter took me to the primary physician. … They gave me a cortisone shot.”

Foxx went on to say that docs ultimately defined to him that “one thing’s happening up there,” pointing to his head.

“I gained’t say it on digital camera,” he added.

The actor’s 30-year-old daughter, Corrine Foxx, publicly introduced her father’s hospitalization in an Instagram submit on April 12.

“We wished to share that my father Jamie Foxx skilled a medical complication yesterday,” she wrote on the time. “Fortunately as a result of fast motion and nice care he’s already on his method to restoration. We all know how beloved he’s and admire your prayers. The household asks for privateness throughout this time.”

Whereas the star nonetheless hasn’t spoken a lot about his hospitalization, he did present some perception into his journey, thanking his sister, Deidra, for saving his life.

“With out you I might not be right here,” Foxx wrote in a birthday message to his sister again in August. “Had you not made the selections that you simply made I might’ve misplaced my life.”

Although particulars have been saved non-public, the Beat Shazam host has hinted that he’ll open up about his well being scare extra whereas studying a return to stand-up comedy.