Jamie Foxx Reveals All About “Mystery Illness” In Netflix Special

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SPOILER ALERT! This story contains spoilers for Netflix stand-up special Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was… “What had happened was…,” a tearful Jamie Foxx starts saying a few minutes into his first stand-up special since he was struck down by a “mystery illness” in April 2023.

After being introduced to the stage by his daughter Corrine Foxx, the comedian revealed all about his medical emergency and the subsequent fallout. “It is a mystery, we still don’t know exactly what happened to me,” he said. “I was having a bad headache and I asked my boy for an aspirin.

Before I could get the aspirin, I went out. I don’t remember 20 days. What they told me was they took me to the first doctor and they gave me a cortisone shot and sent me home.

I don’t know if you can do Yelps for doctors but that’s half a star. My sister said ‘No’. Four foot eleven, and full of nothing but love, she said something’s wrong with my brother.” After paying tribute to his sister Deidra Dixon, Foxx said she took him to Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, which “put me back together”.