Jamie Foxx will get emotional in his new Netflix particular, What Had Occurred Was…, as he opens up for the primary time about his current well being battles, revealing that he suffered a near-fatal stroke.
The comic bought teary-eyed as he defined what led to his hospitalization in April 2023, telling the viewers, “Please, Lord, let me get by means of this.”
“April 11, I used to be having a foul headache, and I requested my boy for an Aspirin. I spotted shortly that whenever you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f*** to do,” Foxx mentioned, per Folks. “Earlier than I might get the Aspirin [clicks his fingers], I went out. I don’t keep in mind 20 days.”
Foxx, who was in Atlanta filming his Netflix film Again in Motion on the time of his medical emergency, mentioned that his pals took him to a physician who gave him a cortisone shot and despatched him house.
“What the f*** is that?” Foxx joked. “I don’t know if you are able to do Yelps for medical doctors, however that’s half a star.”
The Oscar-winning actor revealed it was his sister, Deidra Dixon, who realized one thing was incorrect and took him to Atlanta’s Piedmont Hospital as “she had a hunch that some angels [were] in there.” It was at Piedmont the place a physician revealed Foxx was “having a mind bleed that has led to a stroke” and that he might die if not operated on as quickly as doable.
“If I don’t go in his head proper now, we’re going to lose him,” Foxx recalled the physician saying, noting that his sister “knelt down outdoors the working room and prayed the entire time.”
Foxx went on to explain his near-death expertise, taking a shot at Sean “Diddy” Combs within the course of.
“Your life doesn’t flash earlier than your face. It was type of oddly peaceable,” he shared. “I say this on a regular basis, I noticed the tunnel, I didn’t see the sunshine. It was scorching in that tunnel. I believed, s*** have I gone to the incorrect place? I seemed on the finish of the tunnel, and I believed I noticed the satan saying ‘come on’… or was that Puffy?”
“I’m f****** round,” he continued, “but when that was Puffy he had a flaming bottle of Johnson and… no I’m simply kidding. ‘Come on in right here, n*****!’ No, I’m simply kidding.”
Combs, who’s dealing with costs of kidnapping, drugging, and sexually abusing quite a few men and women at his notorious “freak-out” events, additionally got here up earlier in Foxx’s set.
“The web was saying that Puffy was making an attempt to kill me. I do know what you’re pondering… Did-he?!” Foxx quipped, referencing the web hypothesis that Combs performed an element within the actor’s hospitalization.
“Hell no,” Foxx added. “I left them events early. I used to be out by 9… one thing don’t look proper, n*****. It seems slippery in right here!”
Jamie Foxx: What Had Occurred Was…, Streaming, Netflix