Jamie Foxx has revealed that he had quite the bizarre thought when he first woke up after spending 20 days in a coma.
The actor, 57, gave us all a scare back in April 2023 when reports began to emerge claiming he had been hospitalised and was fighting for his life.
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The details of his health woes were shrouded in mystery, with the Django Unchained star’s family deciding to keep his condition under wraps.
Foxx later told fans he had been to ‘hell and back’ in social media post in July last year, before revealing what really went down in his Netflix special, which was released back in December.
In Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was, the father-of-two explained that he had suffered from a bleed on the brain and subsequently, a stroke.
He said the whole saga started with just a ‘bad headache’, but he quickly realised something more sinister was going on before he was rushed to Atlanta’s Piedmont Hospital.
Foxx underwent life-saving surgery upon his arrival and spent nearly three weeks in a coma as his body recovered, while rumours circulated that he was ‘paralysed‘.
According to the ‘Slow Jamz‘ singer, doctors still have no idea what brought on the stroke to this day.
And neither does he, for that matter – as during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show on Friday (17 January), Foxx recalled how he told one of his pals: “Come on bro, I’m Jamie Foxx – Jamie Foxx don’t have strokes!”
While sat alongside his Back in Action co-star Cameron Diaz as well as actress Michelle Yeoh and Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey, the actor discussed what happened when he woke up in hospital.
“When it happened, I didn’t remember it happened,” Foxx said. “I had a brain bleed that led to a stroke. Me! Like, that don’t happen to me!
“I didn’t even realise what had happened, because I had missed 20 days of my life. When I came to, I said, ‘Yo, what am I doing in this wheelchair?'”
The Collateral actor was left unable to walk and had to learn how to use his legs again, seeing him undergo specialist rehabilitation in Chicago.
The comedian explained that one of his pals had warned him not to attempt and get out of the wheelchair due to this issue, but Foxx ended up finding this out the hard way as he admitted that he tried and ‘fell’.
Revealing his first words post-coma, he continued: “I said, ‘What?! Where is Ashton Kutcher, like is this…am I being Punk’d?”
Foxx said he soon realised he needed to concentrate on his recovery after the initial shock of the stroke had wore off – and he reckons laughter really is the best medicine.
“The only way I did get back was, kind of being funny,” he told talk show host Graham Norton. “I kept saying, if I stay funny, I can stay alive.”
The funnyman revealed that he decided to flex his comedic muscles while he was still in hospital, as he teased the medical staff who came to check on him.
Foxx laughed: “I never answered like…I was never myself, I would always be somebody else. For three days, I was Denzel [Washington].”
Reflecting on his health scare, Foxx also added: “I had a bad situation happen – but I’m back now, I feel good.
“But at that time…like I tell people, you don’t dream of tragedy when you dream.
“You just dream the best – I’m going to have the house and the cars and everything, but you don’t dream that something bad is going to happen.
“And when something bad happens, you need people that really really care about you and love you to get you through that.”
