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Jamie Foxx Shares Scary Details About Being "Gone for 20 Days" Amid Health Crisis
View Date:2024-12-23 19:09:57
Jamie Foxx hasn't said a lot about the "medical complication"—as his family called it—that he experienced in April 2023.
But he shared a few more harrowing details about that still-unspecified health scare with a group of people at an event in downtown Phoenix, according to The Art of Dialogue, which posted a snippet of undated video of the conversation to X (formerly Twitter).
Foxx fell ill while he was in Atlanta to film the Netflix movie Back in Action, costarring Cameron Diaz in her first role since they were in 2014's Annie together.
On April 11, 2023, the Oscar winner had a "bad headache," he shared in the clip. "Asked my boy for an Advil."
Foxx snapped his fingers. "I was gone for 20 days," he said. "I don't remember anything."
He said that his sister Deidra Dixon and daughter Corinne Foxx took him to a doctor who gave him a cortisone shot. Then, he continued, a second doctor told him, "'There's something going on up there.'"
Foxx pointed to his head.
"I won't say it on camera," the Django Unchained star added. "But it was…"
He trailed off with a shrug.
But the 56-year-old might still be working out how he wants to tell the whole story.
"PRINCE singing the Brady Bunch theme song was a moment… I’m planning on bringing more moments," Foxx captioned a throwback video of himself impersonating Prince warbling a story of a lovely lady and a man named Brady. "Going to get on somebody's stage somewhere near you. I got some jokes, and a story to tell… #backonmyfunnys--t."
The Beat Shazam host had thanked his sister for saving him in an Aug. 1 birthday post, writing on Instagram, "'D'… you are magical you are beautiful you are the courageous lionesses #leoseason And without you I would not be here… had you not made the decisions that you made I would've lost my life…. I love you forever and ever."
While he's never shared his exact diagnosis, Foxx has said that his condition took away his ability to walk at one point.
"It's crazy, I couldn't do that six months ago," he said, making a surprise appearance to accept the Vanguard Award at the Choice Association‘s Celebration of Cinema & Television Honoring Black, Latino & AAPI Achievements in December. "I couldn't actually walk."
Thanking everyone in the room, he continued, "I've been through something. I've been through some things."
"I cherish every single minute now — it's different," Foxx added. "I wouldn't wish what I went through on my worst enemy because it's tough when it's almost over. When you see the tunnel, I saw the tunnel — I didn't see the light."
Which makes his return to work all the more miraculous-sounding.
Though production on the aptly named Back in Action was delayed during Foxx's ordeal, Diaz said they had a great time working together again—contrary to rumors they butted heads.
"Jamie is the best, I love that guy so much," the Charlie's Angels star said on the Dec. 19 episode of the Lipstick on the Rim with Molly Sims podcast. "He's such a special person, and he's so talented, so much fun. I really hate all the things that were being said about our set, which at the time you just want to scream at the top of your lungs like, 'Guys! What are you talking about?'"
Calling him "a professional on every level," Diaz said that, when they were on set, they were "on it."
They experienced normal "hiccups" during production, she noted, "but nothing got delayed other than obviously towards the end, and that's not my place to speak about."
She did say, however, that Foxx was "thriving."
And he just might be working on new material that will really drive home how far he's come.
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