Jamie Foxx offers some details on last year’s health scare
“I asked my boy for an Advil,” Foxx said as he snapped his fingers. “I was gone for 20 days.”
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Jamie Foxx still isn’t divulging much information about his health scare last year. Though he was hospitalized for nearly a month, the Oscar winner has remained tight-lipped on his extended absence from his numerous professions. Speaking outside the Hyatt Regency in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, Foxx gave what appears to be an impromptu health update to a group of lucky Phoenician onlookers. The clip, posted to TikTok by motivational speaker Dr. Brenda Combs, sees Foxx going into greater detail on the episode, explaining that he lost his memory during the worst of it.
“Look, April 11 last year—bad headache. I asked my boy for an Advil,” Foxx said before pausing and snapping his fingers, “I was gone for 20 days. I don’t remember anything.” He picks up the story, saying his sister Diedra Dixon and daughter Corinne Foxx took him to a doctor in Atlanta, who gave him a cortisone shot. Foxx then pointed to his head and said the next doctor told him, “There’s something going on up there.”
@drbrendacombs Saw @Jamie Foxx ☑️ in downtown Phoenix today. He said April 11th 2023 he had a bad headache and asked a friend for an Advil. Woke up 20 days later with no memory of what happened😢🙏🏽His resilience is truly inspiring! 🙏#JamieFoxx #Inspiration #Hope #nevergiveup
“I won’t say what on camera,” Foxx said to laughs from the crowd.
Last April, Foxx was quietly and mysteriously hospitalized for about a month before spending time at a rehab facility that specializes in strokes and brain injuries. In March 2024, Foxx told Variety that he would share his experiences “in a funny way,” noting that it would be “on the stage” and “back to the stand-up sort of roots[…]It’ll be called ‘What Had Happened Was,’” which will also go into rumors of a Foxx being a “clone” and that he “dove out of a car to save this Black woman’s purse.”
“I’ve been through something. I’ve been through some things. You know it’s crazy, I couldn’t do that six months ago, I couldn’t actually walk,” he said last December. “And I’m not a clone. I’m not a clone. I know a lot of people saying that I was cloned out there.”