Jamie Foxx Shares New Details About Health Crisis That Left Him ‘Out for 20 Days’

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Jamie Foxx has yet to publicly reveal what caused his hospitalization last year, but shared more details during an encounter captured on video.

The Oscar-winning actor was hospitalized in April 2023 with a health crisis while filming the Netflix movie “Back in Action” in Atlanta.

In a video posted to TikTok this week, Foxx tells a group of unidentified people that he had a “severe headache” on April 11, 2023. He recalls asking his friend for an Advil and then “being out for 20 days.”

“I don’t remember anything,” he said in the video, recorded June 29 in Phoenix.

Foxx then explained in the video that he was told his sister and daughter took him to a doctor, who gave him a cortisone shot. Another doctor told him there was something going on “up there,” Foxx said, pointing to his head.

“I won’t say it on camera,” he said in the video.

The star is known for being very private about his personal life, and he disappeared from the limelight at the time following what his daughter Corinne Foxx described on social media as a “medical complication”.

In July 2023, the “Ray” star explained that he chose not to divulge further information because he didn’t want the public to “see me like that.”

“I want you to see me laughing, having a good time, partying, making a joke, making a movie, a TV show. I didn’t want you to see me with tubes coming out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it,” he said in a video posted to Instagram at the time, adding that he felt like he had been “to hell and back.”

Foxx shared another health update on his verified social media in August 2023.

“You see a man who is grateful… who is finally beginning to feel like me…” he wrote at the time. “It’s been a dark and unexpected journey… but I can see the light.”

He then said he was “grateful to everyone who reached out to him and sent him their wishes and prayers.”

According to IMDB, “Back in Action” is currently in post-production.