Jamie Foxx reveals 'mystery illness' that left him hospitalized for weeks in new Netflix special
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 has opened up in a new Netflix special about the illness that left him hospitalized last year and unable to remember a 20-day period from April to May 2023.
Foxx, 56, revealed in his Netflix special — “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was...” released on Dec. 10 — that he suffered “a brain bleed that led to a stroke.”
The news of Foxx’s “mystery illness,” as he referred to it in the special, first broke in April 2023, when his daughter Corinne Fox shared a statement announcing her father had been hospitalized after experiencing a “medical complication.” It was later revealed his condition was serious enough that family had traveled to be by his bedside.
Since then, the Oscar winner has sporadically shared some details, including that he had suffered from a bad headache prior to the incident and didn’t remember 20 days of his life.
In the special, he went into detail about what he did remember from that time period, found humor in his recovery and explained how he wouldn’t have gotten through it without his family, including his daughters, Corinne Foxx and Anelise Bishop, and his sister Deidra Dixon.
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