Jamie Foxx is opening up about a stroke that nearly killed him.
The actor and comedian made headlines in April when he suffered what was at the time an unspecified medical emergency while on the Atlanta set of his Netflix movie "Back in Action," which led to several weeks of hospitalization. While information about the ordeal has been limited, Foxx finally said it was "brain bleed that led to a stroke."
"April 11, I was having a bad headache, and I asked my boy for an aspirin. I realized quickly that when you're in a medical emergency, your boys don't know what the [expletive] to do," the Academy Award winner, 56, said during his comedy special "Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was...," according to People. "Before I could get the aspirin [clicks his fingers] I went out. I don't remember 20 days."
Foxx said that after receiving a cortisone shot from a doctor in Atlanta, he was sent home. However, it was his sister, Deidra Dixon, who realized something was wrong. She drove him to Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, just 400 yards from where his special was filmed.
A doctor told Dixon that her brother was "having a brain bleed that has led to a stroke."
"If I don't go in his head right now, we're going to lose him," Foxx recalled his sister being told by the doctor.
"We didn't find where it was coming from, but he is having a stroke," Foxx quoted the doctors as saying to Dixon. "He may be able to make a full recovery, but it's going to be he worst year of his life."
Weeks after the incident, Foxx opened up about his experience on Instagram.
"I went through something that I thought I would never, ever, go through," Foxx said, adding that although he knew people wanted to see him amid his recovery, "I didn't want you to see me with tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through."
He expressed gratitude to his sister and daughter Corinne Foxx, as well as to God and the medical professionals who saved his life.
"I cannot tell you how great it feels to have your family kick in in such a way. ... And y'all know they kept it air tight, didn't let nothing out. They protected me and that's what I hope that everyone could have and moments like these," he said.