More than a year after being mysteriously hospitalized, Jamie Foxx is sharing details about his health scare. Not all the details. But some.
“Look, April 11th of last year. I had a bad headache. I asked my son for an Advil,” Foxx told a group at a Phoenix coffee shop, as seen in a video posted to TikTok by a viewer.
Foxx then snapped his fingers theatrically.
“I was gone for 20 days,” he recalls. “I don’t remember anything.”
He said his sister Deidra Dixon and daughter Corinne Foxx took him to a doctor, where he was given a cortisone shot. A cortisone shot treats a specific area of the body and can reduce inflammation, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Pointing to his head, Foxx added that another doctor said, “There’s something going on up there.”
As for specifics, Foxx was reticent.
“I won’t say it on camera,” he said, prompting laughter from those around him.
At an awards luncheon in March, Foxx promised he would speak about his hospitalization — on his own time and on his own terms.
“Everybody wants to know what happened, and I’m going to tell you. But I have to do it my way,” Foxx said, according to Variety. “I’m going to do it in a fun way. We’ll be on stage. We’ll go back to the roots of stand-up.”
“It’s going to be called ‘What Happened Was,’ and it’s going to be everything that happened, especially on our side of the community,” he said. The comedian said he would address all the speculation that has arisen because of his absence, including rumors of clone sightings and the fact that he “threw himself out of a car to save this black woman’s purse.”
Foxx resumed his gigs after his recovery. He returned as host of “Beat Shazam,” a musical game show, after Nick Cannon temporarily replaced him for Season 6.
