“I won’t say it on camera”: Jamie Foxx details health ordeal without revealing the cause
Hollywood actor Jamie Foxx has revealed more about what happened to him last year when he was hospitalised.
In April 2023, the Miami Vice and Horrible Bosses star was hospitalised, which kept him out of the public eye for months, leading to much speculation. Naturally, conjecture arose about the Oscar-winner’s condition as what happened remained a mystery. It all felt eerily under wraps, particularly when considering how open fellow A-lister Jeremy Renner has been about his own recent health battle.
The exact reason for Foxx’s hospitalisation remains unknown. However, the actor has now appeared in public once more after making an emotional return to public view in December 2023 and provided more details about his ordeal. He refused to say what caused his symptoms, though.
Filmed in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, Foxx detailed to a small group of people what happened to him. “April 11 last year, I had a bad headache, asked my boy for an Advil,” explained. “I was gone for 20 days. I don’t remember anything.”
He continued: “So, I’m in Atlanta, my sister and my daughter took me to the first doctor. He said ‘Nah’, gave me a cortisone shot. Next doctor said, ‘Something’s going on up there.’ I won’t say it on camera.” That’s all the information the video provides.
After returning to the public eye in December last year at the Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Cinema and Television: Recognising Black, Latino, and AAPI Achievements, to receive the ‘Vanguard Award’, Foxx returned to acting. In January, he resumed work on the Netflix action comedy, Back in Action, which had been interrupted due to his hospitalisation. It also stars Cameron Diaz.
Foxx has also returned to working on the musical game show, Beat Shazam, which he hosts with his daughter, Corinne. In late June, only days prior to him appearing in Phoenix to discuss his frightening experience, the younger Foxx discussed her father’s health.
“He’s doing so great, he’s doing amazing,” Corinne told Entertainment Tonight. “I’m so grateful to be able to work on [Beat Shazam] with him and spend so much time with him.” Adding: “He’s playing a lot of pickleball! That man and pickleball; it’s like he’s playing twice a day every day. It’s a whole thing. He’s fully in it.”
Elsewhere, in March this year, Foxx revealed that he will be turning his medical problems into a new show. During an appearance at the African American Film Critics Association’s Special Achievement Awards luncheon, he revealed it will give a first-hand perspective on his issues, and be fused with his background in stand-up comedy.
“It’ll be called What Had Happened Was, and it’s got all the things that happened, especially on our side of our community,” he explained. “I dove out of a car to save this Black woman’s purse. That ain’t no damn Jamie, that’s a clone!”
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