Jamie Foxx reveals new details about mystery illness that hospitalized him
Jamie Foxx has shed new light on the health scare that hospitalized him in April 2023, revealing it all started with a headache that escalated to a medical emergency.
In a newly surfaced video circulating on social media, Foxx talks to people in downtown Phoenix reliving the start of the scare.
“Bad headache. Asked my boy for an Advil,” he says, and then he snaps his fingers. “I was gone for 20 days. I don’t remember anything.”
He says that he was in Atlanta and that his sister and his daughter took him to a doctor, from whom he received a cortisone shot, an injection used to treat inflammatory conditions, swelling, pain and irritation, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“Next doctor said, ‘There’s something going on up there,’” he says, motioning to his head. But he doesn’t want to give details, saying, “I won’t say it on camera,” before the recording stops.
It’s not immediately clear when the video was recorded. Foxx’s representatives didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Foxx, 56, has never disclosed what his mystery illness was.
He experienced the emergency working on the film “Back in Action” alongside Glenn Close and Cameron Diaz in Atlanta and has since then largely kept out of the public eye.
In July 2023, he took to Instagram in an emotional video to describe the ordeal, saying he “went to hell and back” but was “coming back.” At a Critics Choice Association event in December, he revealed he was at one point unable to walk.
Also in December, he shared an Instagram post on his birthday calling it “a special one.”
“I NEEDED EVERY PRAYER… you lifted me through… I was able to make it to today because of your prayers,” he wrote.
Foxx has frequently thanked and credited his daughter, Corinne Foxx, and his sister, Deidra Dixon, with saving his life.
They “kept it airtight, they let nothing out, they protected me. And that’s what I hope everyone could have in moments like these,” he said last July.
