Jamie Foxx talks about his medical crisis in 2023.
In the Netflix comedy special Jamie Foxx: What happened was…the Academy Award-winning actor and comedian said he suffered a “brain hemorrhage that led to a stroke” in April 2023 in Atlanta while filming the movie Back in action. He tackled the subject with heart and humor, including making jokes about Sean “Diddy” Combs.
“I had a severe headache,” Foxx said of the emergency, which began April 11. He asked for an aspirin, but before he could get it, “I went outside.” Today he said, “I can’t remember twenty days.”
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Foxx mentioned surgery at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. He said repeatedly during the episode, “Atlanta saved my life.”
He also credited his sister, Deidra Dixon, and daughter, Corrine Foxx, for ensuring he had privacy as he recovered. They said, ‘No one sees him!’ and shut out the world while he tried to recover.
Foxx said he woke up in a wheelchair on May 4, unaware of the past three weeks. He went to rehab to recover and joked about a nurse pushing him into a wheelchair and telling him to wash him.
“What kind of old man shit is that?” he joked.
Foxx joked about conspiracy theories surrounding his health, including comments from Katt Williams. He also joked about Combs, who is in jail for his sex trafficking case, amid baseless internet rumors that Combs tried to poison Foxx.
“The internet said Puffy tried to kill me,” Foxx joked. “I know what you’re thinking: Did he do that? No, n*****. I left those parties early. I was out at nine o’clock, n****. Something’s not right, n****. It’s slippery here.”
Jamie Foxx: What happened was… is now streaming on Netflix.
