Jamie Foxx credited three special women for saving his life during a 2024 Golden Globes red carpet chat with “Variety” on Sunday, January 5.

At the awards ceremony, the Academy Award winner opened up to “Variety” correspondent and editor Marc Malkin about his near-fatal medical emergency from April 2023. In his recent Netflix special, “What Had Happened Was,” Foxx disclosed that the health scare was a brain bleed that resulted in a stroke, which landed him in the hospital.

Foxx began by thanking his daughters, Corinne, 30, and Anelise, 16, for being by his side during the medical complication.

"When you dream about what you wanna be, you don't dream tragedy. You dream the good things,” Foxx began. You dream greatest life in the world, but when tragedy happens you need somebody there that really loves you. My daughter Anelise and my daughter Corinne stepped up."

Foxx jokingly likened his eldest daughter to “The Godfather” protagonist Michael Corleone, as she was the first to break the news about her father’s emergency before any news outlet. However, there was “a lot of pressure on her.”

On how fearful he was about the outcome of his health, Foxx said he was initially “very scared.” But coming to his aid was a nurse who ensured that he wouldn’t lose his life.

“This girl in Atlanta, one of my nurses–shout out to her–she says, ‘Jamie, you're a five-percenter,’” Foxx continued. “I said, 'What does that mean?’ [She said,] ‘Less than 5 percent of people that have what you have walk out of here. But when I saw that it was you, I rolled my sleeves up.’ 

“I said, ‘Well thank you so much.’ She says, 'Why you thanking me? You're not special, I roll my sleeves up for everybody that comes in here,’” he said.

Before Foxx could hit the Golden Globes, Foxx said his nurse explained that he’s a “patient” and that she needed to make sure he was “right.”

Anelise joined her father in “What Had Happened Was,” when she performed guitar onstage after Foxx recalled that her playing the instrument in the hospital kept him stable.