The actor and comedian talks about the medical condition that hospitalized him in 2023 in the new Netflix special 'Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was...'
The actor and comedian talks about the medical condition that hospitalized him in 2023 in the new Netflix special"Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was..." — "Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was..." released on Dec. 10 — that he suffered"a brain bleed that led to a stroke.
He said that on April 11, 2023, he began experiencing a bad headache and asked a friend for an aspirin. At the time, he was working on the film “Back in Action” alongside Glenn Close and Cameron Diaz, which will be released on Netflix in January 2025. Foxx said he woke up on May 4 in a wheelchair and then was flown to Chicago to do his rehabilitation.
“You’re lookin at a man who is thankful… finally startin to feel like myself… it’s been an unexpected dark journey… but I can see the light,” he wrote.In the special, Foxx revealed that his headache, an early symptom of his brain bleed, was dismissed by the first doctor he saw, who gave him a cortisone shot and sent him home. He joked about wanting to give the doctor"half a star" in an online review.
“And fired back and said, ‘You can go in his head, but you’re not going to find anything, because I already talked to God.’”
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