Jamie Foxx Reveals Shocking Details About 2023 Medical Emergency
Jamie Foxx is breaking his silence on the harrowing medical emergency he faced last year.
In his newly released Netflix special, “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was,” the Academy Award winner revealed that a brain bleed led to a stroke, causing a health crisis that nearly cost him his life.
“It is a mystery,” Foxx shared. “We still don’t know exactly what happened to me.”
He recounted the moment everything changed on April 11, 2023. “I was having a bad headache, and I asked my boy for an aspirin,” he said. “And I realized quickly that when you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f—k to do.”
Fox revealed, “Before I could get the aspirin, I went out,” adding, “I don’t remember 20 days.”
The actor credited his sister, describing her as “4 foot 11 of nothing but pure love,” for driving him around Atlanta in search of a hospital. They eventually arrived at Piedmont Hospital, where doctors delivered a grim diagnosis — he was experiencing a brain bleed that had led to a stroke. “They said, ‘You’re gonna die if we don’t operate,’” Foxx recalled.
Following surgery, doctors warned that while he might recover, it would be “the worst year of his life.” His family shielded him from public view to avoid being turned into an internet meme, as he was “so dizzy” that his head would bob uncontrollably.
The road to recovery was steep. “Jamie Foxx don’t get strokes,” he remembered thinking, after waking up in a wheelchair unable to walk. He later underwent rehabilitation in Chicago, where he was told to shed his "arrogant" mindset to fully heal.
Looking back, Foxx described the experience as “an unexpected dark journey” but, he added, “I can see the light.”
