Jamie Foxx used his new Netflix special to finally reveal shocking details behind a mystery illness that almost cost him his life last year. The Oscar winner credited his sister Deidra Dixon with rushing him to a hospital in Atlanta, where a doctor diagnosed him as having “a brain bleed that’s led to a stroke.” They also said he would die without surgery, Foxx recounted in his special, Jamie Foxx: What Happened Was. He said the ordeal began with a headache, saying he’d asked a friend for an aspirin but ended up being “gone” for 20 days. “I don’t remember anything,” Foxx said. When he woke up on May 4, he said, he was in a wheelchair and unable to walk. Foxx also recalled his shock when friends told him what happened to him, joking: “Jamie Foxx don’t get strokes.” He continued his recovery at a rehab facility in Chicago. At the time of his illness, Foxx had been filming a Netflix movie in Atlanta—his daughter, Corinne, wrote on social media that her dad had suffered a “medical complication” but did not immediately disclose the severity of his emergency.
