“April 11 [2023], I was having a bad headache, and I asked my boy for an aspirin. I realized quickly that when you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f–k to do,” he said on What Had Happened Was, released Dec. 10. “Before I could get the aspirin, I went out. I don’t remember 20 days.”
Following his hemorrhagic stroke, the actor underwent surgery and later had to relearn skills like walking and talking at a rehabilitation facility.
“Twenty days I don’t remember, but on May 4th I woke up,” he said. “And I when I woke up, I found myself in a wheelchair. I couldn’t walk, in a wheelchair, and I was like, ‘Why the f–k am I in a wheelchair?'”
Foxx, father of daughters Corinne Foxx, 30, and Anelise Bishop, 16, credits his family for keeping his medical condition private.
“They didn’t want you to see me like that. And I didn’t want you to see me like that,” Jamie said, getting emotional. “I want you to see me like this.”
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