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Jamie Foxx finally breaks silence on his mysterious hospitalization and near-death experience: ‘I was gone for 20 days’
Jamie Foxx has finally broken his silence on what led to his mysterious hospitalization in April 2023.
The 56-year-old actor was hospitalized for an unspecified medical emergency while filming Back in Action with Cameron Diaz in Atlanta – with the star later revealing he was left unable to walk and ‘saw the tunnel but not the light’ as he battled for survival.
Foxx was filmed in Phoenix opening up to fans about his his medical emergency – revealing it began with ‘a bad headache’ which saw him ‘ask for Advil’- before he woke up almost three weeks later with no memory of what had happened.
Oscar-winner Foxx snapped his fingers and said: ‘I was gone for 20 days’ as fans around him gasped – and added he ‘does not remember anything.’
The Ray star said his sister and daughter took him to his ‘first doctor’ and said: ‘Next doctor said, “[There’s] something going on up there”‘ – while pointing at his head.
He then said: ‘I won’t say it on camera.’
In December 2023 Foxx revealed he ‘saw the tunnel but not the light’ as he opened up about his near-death experience for his first public appearance since his shock health scare at the Critics Choice Association’s event.
The actor was visibly moved as he accepted the Vanguard Award in a 12 minute speech at the association’s Celebration of Cinema & Television: Honoring Black, Latino and AAPI Achievements in Los Angeles.