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More than a year after his health emergency, actor and comedian Jamie Foxx is ready to explain it all and make his fans laugh in the process.
Foxx’s Netflix Special What Had Happened Was released today, and he humorously broke down what exactly happened. The special started with him exclaiming, “I’m back!” as he emerged onstage.
Soon after, he got serious, admitting he had a brain bleed that led to a stroke. He recounts the moments before the incident, saying it all started with a headache.
“It is a mystery. We still don’t know exactly what happened to me. April 11, I was having a bad headache and I asked my boy for an aspirin. And I realized quickly that when you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f-ck to do,” he said.
Foxx said one of his friends gave him an aspirin to deal with a bad headache, but before he could even pop it, he blacked out, which led to a weeks-long coma.
“Before I could get the aspirin, I went out,” he said. “I don’t remember 20 days.”
Afterward, Foxx says he was told he was taken to a doctor who did nothing but give him a cortisol shot, and he makes sure to let the audience know the doctor could have done more.
“What the f-ck is that?” Foxx quipped. “I don’t know if you can do Yelps for doctors, but that’s half a star.”
Foxx thanked his sister, who he described as “4-foot-11 of nothing but pure love,” for saving his life and knowing that he wasn’t truly himself and needed more medical attention.
“She says, ‘Get him in the car. That ain’t my brother right there,’” Foxx said. “She drove around — she didn’t know anything about Piedmont Hospital, but she had a hunch that some angels [were] in there.”
That’s when it was learned he was suffering from a brain bleed and stroke, but Foxx still found a way to joke about his medical emergency.
“I saw the tunnel. I didn’t see the light. It was hot in that tunnel. Shit, am I going to the wrong place in this motherf-cker? Because I looked at the end of the tunnel, and I thought I saw the Devil like, ‘C’mon.’ Or is that Puffy?” Foxx quipped.
Foxx goes on to explain that his family kept his condition private until he recovered out of fear that he’d become a meme. But since, he was moved to a facility in Chicago to complete rehab before being released,
See how social media is reacting to the admission below.
