Jamie Foxx reveals he had a stroke in 2023

In an emotional chat with the audience for Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…, recorded in Atlanta, the city where he was working when he fell ill, Foxx said he was initially sent home by medics after being given a cortisone injection.

His sister then came over to see him and felt that he wasn’t himself so she took him in her car to Piedmont Hospital.

It was then that a doctor told him he was having a brain bleed that had led to a stroke, adding: “If I don’t go in his head right now, we’re going to lose him.”

He said his sister prayed the whole time during his operation outside the theatre.

Doctors couldn’t locate the origin of the brain bleed.

Foxx also told the audience that “your life doesn’t flash before your face, it was kind of oddly peaceful, I saw a tunnel, I didn’t see the light.”

He joked: “It was hot in that tunnel, am I going to the wrong place?”

Foxx said the doctor told his family: “He may be able to make a full recovery but it’s going to be the worst year of his life.”