Jamie Foxx Says His Mystery Illness Started with a 'Bad Headache': 'I Was Gone for 20 Days'

Jamie Foxx is sharing more details about the mystery illness that landed him in the hospital last April.

The actor, 56, talked about the early days of his health scare in a video shared on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, by The Art of the Dialogue.

“Look, April 11th last year,” Foxx tells a group of people gathered around him at an outdoor café in Phoenix, “Bad headache. I asked my boy for an Advil.”

He snaps his fingers.

“I was gone for 20 days,” Foxx said. “I don’t remember anything.”

“So they told me — I’m in Atlanta — so they told me my sister and my daughter took me to the first doctor,” Foxx said of his sister, Deidra Dixon, and daughter, Corinne Foxx. 

“They gave me a cortisone shot,” he tells the woman next to him. (A cortisone injection, the Mayo Clinic explains, is used to "relieve pain, swelling and irritation.")

He continued: “The next doctor said something’s going on up there," pointing to his head.

“I won’t say it on camera,” the Academy Award winner said, earning laughs from the crowd.

“But it was…” he trailed off, shrugging, as the video ended.

Foxx has previously said his sister Deidra saved his life during his health crisis, sharing an Instagram post that said, “without you I would not be here … had you not made the decisions that you made I would’ve lost my life."

The actor, who recently returned to the FOX competition Beat Shazam after his illness caused him to sit out for season 6,  has also teased a return to stand-up comedy where he says he'll address what happened.

In February, Foxx referenced his health scare, saying, “Going to get on somebody’s stage somewhere near you. I got some jokes, and a story to tell…." 

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