Jamie Foxx Finally Reveals What Led To His Mysterious Hospitalization

Jamie Foxx has finally revealed the reasoning for his sudden 2023 hospitalization . A video of the actor speaking to a group of restaurant patrons went viral on Monday (July 1), where Foxx claimed that it all started with someone giving him an Advil for a headache.

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But he insisted that everything that happened after that was allegedly a blur, saying, “Look, April 11 last year, bad headache, asked my boy for an Advil [and] I was gone for 20 days. I don’t remember anything. I’m in Atlanta, they told me—my sister and my daughter took me to the first doctor.”

“The next doctor said, ‘There’s something going on up there,'” he added, speaking to the crowd as he pointed to his head. “I won’t say it on camera… but it was.”

The incident in question first rocked the news cycle in April 2023, when his daughter, Corinne, broke the news. She took to Instagram in a now-deleted post with an update on her father’s status, one of which she described as a “medical complication.” While vague, Corinne insisted that “quick action and great care” essentially saved the actor from more dire consequences.

The acclaimed actor would then make his first public appearance later that year in December 2023. Jamie Foxx appeared at the Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Cinema and Television and vaguely addressed what happened to him.

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“I couldn’t do that six months ago, I couldn’t actually walk to [the stage]. And I’m not a clone, I’m not a clone. I know a lot of people saying that I was cloned out there,” he joked at the time. “It feels good to be here. I cherish every single minute now, it’s different. I wouldn’t wish what I went though 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. It was hot in that tunnel, too, I don’t know where I was going. ‘Sh*t, am I going to the right place?'”

Then, in May 2024, while accepting the Producers Award from the African American Film Critics Association, the 56-year-old multihyphenate expressed that he would talk in full detail about his health scare in a new comedy special .

“Everybody wants to know what happened, and I’m going to tell you what happened, but I gotta do it my way. I’m going to do it in a funny way. I’m going to be on stage. We’re going back to the stand-up sort of roots,” he told the audience.

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