Jamie Foxx reveals scary details behind his mysterious 2023 medical crisis

Jamie Foxx says he doesn't remember 20 days after his medical emergency last year, and one day woke up in a wheelchair but didn't know how he got there.

Jamie Foxx has finally revealed the cause of the mysterious medical crisis that left him hospitalized last year.

In his new standup comedy special, Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was, the actor and comedian reveals that his health scare was caused by a brain bleed that resulted in a stroke.

In the special, which debuted on Netflix Tuesday, he details a period that was “touch and go” for him, sharing that his “vitals were out of control” during the first couple weeks following the stroke and that doctors struggled to stabilize him.

He said he had a bad headache one day and asked for an aspirin but before he could take it, he “went out (blacked out). I don’t remember 20 days.”

He told the audience he was working in Atlanta when he fell ill, and was initially sent home by medics after they gave him an injection of cortisone. However, he still wasn’t feeling well when his sister came over a short while later and she took him to Piedmont Hospital.

Once there, he said the doctor revealed to his sister he was having a brain bleed that led to a stroke, adding: “If I don’t go in his head right now, we’re going to lose him.”

He also said that he remembers a few things about being unconscious: “Your life doesn’t flash before your face. It was kind of oddly peaceful. I saw the tunnel. I didn’t see the light. I was in that tunnel, though. It was hot in that tunnel.”

He then quipped: “S–t, am I going to the wrong place?”