Jamie Foxx shared that he suffered from such intense head pain that he couldn’t walk, a near-death experience that caused him to lose his memory for 20 days.
The 56-year-old actor, who was promoting his new Netflix film Back in Action in Atlanta, USA, described the incident as a “medical complication.” Corrine, Jamie’s daughter, talked about the event in April 2023 on her social media.
However, the details of what happened remained a mystery… until now. The actor recorded a new comedy special at The Alliance Theater in Georgia, just 365 meters from the hospital where he was treated for the serious health issue, and he opened up about what happened.
During What Happened Was…, the actor recalled that on April 11, 2023, he had such intense head pain that he asked his son for aspirin. “I quickly realized that when you’re in a medical emergency, your kids don’t know what to do,” he joked.
Before he could take the medicine, Foxx remembered passing out and not remembering anything for 20 days. Initially, he was taken to a doctor who gave him a cortisone injection and sent him home. But Foxx’s younger sister took him to Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta for further tests.
It was there that he received the news that he had had a brain bleed that caused a stroke. The cause of the bleeding remains a mystery, he said. “We still don’t know exactly what happened to me. All I can say is that I appreciate every prayer because I needed every prayer.”
He went into a coma and woke up in May of that year, but he was bound to a wheelchair and couldn’t walk. His vital signs weren’t giving the doctors much hope, but he shared that visits from his teenage daughter, Anelise, helped him regain his strength.
Foxx was eventually sent to Chicago for rehabilitation and shared how he used comedy to cope with his health scare. “I lost everything, but the one thing I was able to hold on to was my sense of humor,” he explained.
“I couldn’t walk very well, I couldn’t talk very well, but I didn’t let go of my grace… I was always telling jokes, so much so that the nurses thought I was really losing my mind.”
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