Jamie Foxx has finally gone into detail about the medical emergency he suffered back in 2023. During his new Netflix special, Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was..., he revealed that he suffered a "brain bleed that led to a stroke," which nearly cost him his life.
“April 11, I was having a bad headache, and I asked my boy for a aspirin. I realized quickly that when you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f--- to do,” Foxx began, as noted by PEOPLE. "Before I could get the aspirin [clicks his fingers] I went out. I don’t remember 20 days." From there, he revealed that his friends took him to a doctor who simply gave him a cortisone shot and sent him on his way. "What the f--- is that?” Foxx joked. “I don’t know if you can do Yelps for doctors, but that’s half a star.”
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Foxx's sister, Deidra Dixon, however luckily "knew something was wrong" and said, "'That ain't my brother right there.'" She took him to the nearby Piedmont Hospital, where he received life-saving care. Foxx explained that a doctor told Dixon, "some horrible news about her big brother. He said, ‘He’s having a brain bleed that has led to a stroke,' and that if they didn't operate on him as soon as possible he would die. 'If I don’t go in his head right now, we’re going to lose him.'"
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Reflecting on the experience of being unconscious, he added: "Your life doesn’t flash before your face. It was kind of oddly peaceful. I saw the tunnel. I didn’t see the light. I was in that tunnel, though. It was hot in that tunnel. S---, am I going to the wrong place in this mother------? Because I looked at the end of the tunnel, and I thought I saw the devil like, ‘Come on.’" Check out a full trailer for Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was… on Netflix below.
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