More than a year after he was struck down with a mystery illness, Jamie Foxx spoke about his hospitalisation.
Foxx, who suffered a “medical complication” in April 2023 while he was filming the Netflix show Back in Action in Atlanta revealed the new details during his Netflix special, Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was, confirming his hospitalisation was due to a “brain bleed that … led to a stroke.”
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Did Jamie have a stroke?
Previously, Jamie Foxx has remained tight-lipped on details. While he didn’t share details of what happened at the time, in July that year, the Ray star referred to having “tubes running out of me” and wondering if he was “gonna make it through”.
In August of that year, having turned a corner, he revealed on social media that he was “a man who is thankful”, having undergone “an unexpected dark journey.” He later confirmed he would share details in his Netflix special.
“Everybody wants to know what happened, and I’m going to tell you what happened. But I’ve gotta do it in my way,” he said, according to Variety earlier this year.
“I’m gonna do it in a funny way. We’re gonna be on the stage. We’re gonna get back to the stand-up sort of roots.”
Now, the actor has revealed more details, sharing in his Netflix show that a bad headache was actually a brain bleed, which led to emergency surgery.
When he came to 20 days later, he was in a wheelchair.
“I was like, ‘Why the f**k am i in a wheelchair?’ I’m just coming out of s**t,” he recalled, admitting the whole scenario felt “like a f**king prank.”
The 56-year-old actor previously told fans he took a painkiller after suffering from a headache – and that’s when his health deteriorated.
“I was gone for 20 days,” he recalled. “I don’t remember anything.”
