Jamie Foxx Shares How Daughter Saved Him Throughout Well being Battle As He Reveals Thriller Sickness

In his new Netflix particular, Jamie Foxx: What Had Occurred Was…, which premiered on Tuesday, the actor detailed his well being battle for the primary time, revealing that he suffered a stroke.

Foxx — who shares Anelise with ex Kristin Grannis — mentioned that in his first two weeks within the hospital, docs had been involved due to his deteriorating vitals. Nonetheless, he mentioned after Anelise “snuck into” his room, a “miracle” occured.

“They mentioned at one level, the primary 15 days, they thought they had been going to lose me as a result of my vitals had been uncontrolled,” he mentioned in the course of the particular. “There was a 13- or 14-day interval the place they mentioned, we have gotta hold him calm and we have given him each treatment that they might. It isn’t working, we gotta hold him calm as a result of his vitals are so excessive we will lose him.”

“Are you aware what the worst factor to have in a hospital room whenever you’re attempting to maintain calm in a hospital room? Black relations,” he jokingly added.

Foxx mentioned his daughter visited him in his hospital room, and introduced her guitar.

“That is when a miracle occurred, and that miracle was working by means of my youngest daughter. She’s 14,” he recalled. “I did not need her to see me like that however she snuck into my hospital room along with her guitar, and she or he mentioned, ‘I do know what my daddy wants … that is my daddy.'”

Foxx started to get emotional whereas sharing how his daughter taking part in the guitar helped him.

“They mentioned when she was taking part in, my vitals went down,” he mentioned, tearing up. “The nurses on the nurses’ station had been baffled. Like, ‘Wow, what did they provide him?’ They rushed into the room and she or he mentioned, ‘Ssh. I obtained him.’ … Are you aware what I discovered? It was God was in that guitar. That is my religious defibrillator.”

Anelise then joined her father on stage. Foxx cried whereas hugging his daughter, earlier than Anelise and Foxx carried out collectively.

“Play, play, play,” he emotionally advised Anelise as she strummed the guitar. “Allow them to see your expertise, shine Anelise, shine. Shine child.”

“Anelise, thanks a lot for stepping up when all was misplaced,” Foxx added, to which Anelise replied, “You needed to make it as a result of I all the time dreamed that we might carry out collectively onstage at some point.”

The daddy-daughter duo carried out an emotional track about Foxx’s well being scare. Foxx rapped and sang, whereas Anelise performed the guitar.

“God do not take me, let me keep awhile / My oldest daughter’s getting married, please let me stroll her down the aisle,” he sang at one level. As he referenced strolling his older daughter Corinne, 30, who tied the knot in September 2024, down the aisle, a photograph of the candy second appeared behind him on stage.

Foxx additionally broke down the medical emergency itself in the course of the comedy particular, recalling how he practically misplaced his life after struggling a stroke.

On the time, he was filming Again in Motion with Cameron Diaz in Atlanta. Then at some point, Foxx mentioned he had a “unhealthy headache.”

“April 11, I used to be having a foul headache, and I requested my boy for an aspirin,” he recalled. “And I noticed shortly that, whenever you’re in a medical emergency, your boys do not know what the f–k to do.”

“Earlier than I might get the aspirin,” he continued, “I went out. I don’t bear in mind 20 days. What they advised me was that they took me to the primary physician, and that physician simply gave me a cortisone shot and despatched me house.”

Regardless of being despatched house, Foxx mentioned his sister, Deidra Dixon, knew there was one thing severely “improper” with him.

“4-foot-eleven, and stuffed with nothing however pure love, she mentioned, ‘One thing’s improper with my brother,'” he recalled. “She came visiting to see me, and so they advised me I used to be torpid. She says, ‘Get him within the automobile. That ain’t my brother proper there.'”

Dixon drove her brother to Piedmont Hospital, which Foxx famous was “simply 400 yards away” from the place his particular was filmed on the Alliance Theatre. In line with Foxx, docs advised his sister that he was “having a mind bleed that has led to a stroke.”

Foxx was rushed into surgical procedure.

“I noticed the tunnel. I did not see the sunshine. I used to be in that tunnel, although,” he recalled. “It was scorching in that tunnel. ‘S–t, am I going to the improper place on this motherf–ker?’ As a result of I seemed on the finish of the tunnel, and I assumed I noticed the satan — like, ‘Come on.'”

After being in a coma for weeks, Foxx awakened on Could 4, solely to find that he was in a wheelchair.

He finally made a full restoration, sharing that his humor saved him going.

“I misplaced all the things,” Foxx mentioned, including that “the one factor I might maintain onto was my humorousness.”

“‘If I can keep humorous, I can keep alive,'” he recalled telling himself.

A day earlier than Foxx’s Netflix particular, Jamie Foxx: What Had Occurred Was…, dropped on the streaming service, he obtained a 2025 Golden Globe nomination for Finest Efficiency in Stand-Up Comedy on Tv.

See all the nominations right here, and take a look at Foxx’s particular, right here.