‘I saw the tunnel’: Jamie Foxx reveals he had a brain bleed and stroke
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(Gray News) – Jamie Foxx is opening up about the medical emergency he faced last year.
Foxx revealed that he suffered a “brain bleed that led to a stroke” while filming “Back in Action” in Atlanta in April 2023.
He said it started as a “bad headache” and he asked for an aspirin, but before he could get the aspirin, he “went out.”
“I don’t remember 20 days,” Foxx said.
He said his friends took him to a doctor who gave him a cortisone shot and then sent him home. He said it was his sister who “knew something was wrong.”
Foxx’s sister, Deidra Dixon, drove him to Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta where he says, “They put me back together again.”
At the hospital, a doctor told Dixon her brother was “having a brain bleed” that led to a stroke and that if he did not have surgery immediately, he would die.
Foxx said his sister “knelt down outside the operating room and prayed the whole time.
Foxx went on to talk about what it was like for him to be unconscious.
“Your life doesn’t flash before your face. It was kind of oddly peaceful,” he said. “I saw the tunnel. I didn’t see the light. I was in that tunnel, though. It was hot in that tunnel. ‘S***, am I going to the wrong place in this mother******?’ Because I looked at the end of the tunnel, and I thought I saw the devil like, ‘Come on.’”
Foxx said he woke up on May 4, 2023, and found himself in a wheelchair with no memory of what had happened in the previous 20 days.
Foxx was later flown to Chicago for rehab.
While he was recovering, Foxx’s family kept him out of the public eye because he was still struggling.
Foxx goes into all the details about his health in “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was” on Netflix.
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