Jamie Foxx is opening up about his 2023 medical disaster.
In the Netflix comedy particular Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…, the Academy Award-winning actor and comic mentioned he suffered a “mind bleed that led to a stroke” in Atlanta in April 2023 whereas filming the film Back in Action. He tackled the subject with coronary heart and humor, together with making jokes about Sean “Diddy” Combs.
“I used to be having a nasty headache,” Foxx mentioned of the emergency, which started on April 11. He requested for an aspirin, however earlier than he might get it, “I went out.” Describing his time in a coma, he mentioned, “I don’t keep in mind 20 days.”
Jamie Foxx on the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. (Parrish Lewis/Netflix)
For the primary 15 days, medical doctors thought they’d “lose [me],” Foxx mentioned. Medications weren’t working, and his important indicators had been unstable.
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Foxx talked about being taken first to a health care provider who misdiagnosed him, gave him a cortisone shot and despatched him residence. He was later taken to Piedmont Atlanta Hospital, the place he underwent emergency surgical procedure. He mentioned repeatedly all through the episode, “Atlanta saved my life.”
He additionally credited his sister Deidra Dixon and his daughters, Corrine Foxx and Anelise Bishop, for serving to guarantee his privateness as he recovered, recounting how they mentioned, “‘Nobody sees him!’” after which shut out the world as he tried to get well.
Foxx mentioned he woke on May 4 in a wheelchair, unaware of the earlier three weeks, after which went to rehab in Chicago to get well, joking a few nurse who needed to bathe him, wipe him after he used the toilet and see his personal elements.
“What form of outdated man shit is that?” he quipped.
Foxx bought emotional speaking about how he fought again from a stroke that just about ended his life. (Jamie Foxx through Instagram)
Foxx mentioned he wasn’t simple on his therapists as he coped with emotions of anger.
“‘I’m Jamie Foxx. I don’t want no f***ing therapist…’ I used to be conceited… I do not want nothing… ‘Why did this shit even occur to me within the first place?’” he recalled considering. “I felt like Wesley Snipes in New Jack City when he was on the desk on the finish, and Gee Money would stroll up, ‘Yo, get the f*** out.’”
He admitted, “I gave up” at first. A therapist named Holly was known as in and turned issues round with robust love, telling him to knock off his “conceited bullshit.” She helped Foxx, who was experiencing dizziness that left him unable to steadiness or stroll, get again on his ft. She reminded him how blessed he was, noting the many individuals within the facility “who wouldn’t get out.”
Foxx, who spoke quite a bit about faith getting him via, mentioned the ordeal reconnected him to his religion and himself.
“It’s about blessings. God blessed me with this expertise. He blessed me with all this cash and this fame, and after I forgot about God, he blessed me with a stroke,” he mentioned.
Foxx — who did impressions of Denzel Washington, Dave Chappelle, Jay-Z, Donald Trump and Mike Tyson in the course of the particular — additionally credited his humor, saying he instructed himself, “If I can keep humorous, I can keep alive.”
Foxx touched on conspiracy theories round his well being, together with feedback made by comic Katt Williams and hypothesis he was a clone. (He sang a complete track, repeating “F*** you” in response to the latter.)
There had been emotional moments but additionally numerous laughter. (Netflix)
He additionally poked enjoyable at Combs, who’s in jail on costs of intercourse trafficking, and addressed unsubstantiated web rumors that the music mogul tried to poison Foxx.
“The web mentioned Puffy tried to kill me,” Foxx joked. “I do know what you’re considering: Did he? Hell no, n*****. I left these events early. I used to be out by 9, n*****. Something don’t look proper, n*****. It’s slippery in right here.”
He additionally talked about Combs when he mentioned he didn’t see a light-weight however noticed a tunnel when he was in a coma — and that it was “scorching,” making him marvel if he was going to the unsuitable place.
“I believed I noticed the satan, like, ‘Come on,’ or was it Puffy? If it was Puffy, he had a flaming bottle of Johnson’s [baby oil]… No, I’m simply kidding.”
Foxx taped the particular at Alliance Theatre in Atlanta in early October, together with his daughters and sister in attendance. There had been musical interludes — together with his daughter Anelise taking part in the guitar whereas Foxx sang — and tears.
It ended with Foxx giving thanks for his life, his household, the medical professionals who saved him, his followers and all of the help.
Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was… is now streaming on Netflix.
