Jamie Foxx has opened up about the medical emergency he faced last year, revealing that he had a brain bleed that led to a stroke.
The Hollywood star detailed the struggles he had with his health last year in a Netflix special released on Tuesday titled: ‘Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was.’
‘It is a mystery,’ he said. ‘We still don’t know exactly what happened to me.’
‘April 11, I was having a bad headache and I asked my boy for an aspirin. And I realized quickly that when you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f**k to do,: he said.
‘Before I could get the aspirin I went out,’ he said. ‘I don’t remember 20 days.’
Foxx thanked his sister, who he said was ‘4 foot 11 of nothing but pure love,’ for driving him around Atlanta to find a hospital.
WHAT DOCTOR SAID
They ended up at Piedmont Hospital, where a doctor told them that Foxx was having a brain bleed that had led to a stroke and that he would die without an operation, the actor said.
After the operation, doctors said that Foxx might make a full recovery ‘but it’s going to be the worst year of his life,’ Foxx recounted.
Foxx’s family kept him out of the public eye because he was ‘so dizzy’ that his head would bob around and his daughter was concerned that people would turn him into an internet meme if they saw his condition, he said.
On May 4, he remembers waking up in a wheelchair and not being able to walk, and reacting in shock when his friend told him he’d had a stroke.
‘Jamie Foxx don’t get strokes,: the actor remembered saying.
He was then flown to Chicago for rehab, where he says he was told to drop the ‘arrogant’ act if he wanted to make a full recovery.
The actor was hospitalized in April 2023 after having a then-undisclosed health crisis while filming a Netflix film in Atlanta.
