Jamie Foxx feels ‘pure joy’ as he returns to the stage after a health scare

Jamie Foxx is back on stage.

The Oscar-winning actor and comedian, 56, did a series of one-man shows in Atlanta this month, where he talked about the medical emergency he experienced last year. In an Instagram post on Monday, Foxx shared a gallery of photos from her performance, one of which showed her appearing to wipe away tears, and wrote that her “soul is filled with nothing but pure joy.”

“I had the opportunity to tell my side of the story and there was no better place than Atlanta Georgia,” he wrote. “I have to thank you Atlanta for showing up and showing up, I haven’t been on stage in 18 years but I needed the stage and I needed an audience that was nothing but pure love and that’s what you were.”

Foxx was hospitalized in April 2023 due to an unspecified health emergency. The actor and his family shared few details at the time, but a video circulated on social media in July showing the “Django Unchained” star revealing more information to fans. In the clip, she said she experienced a “headache” on April 11, 2023, and “asked my boy for an Advil.” After that, he said, he “was out for 20 days.”

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“I don’t remember anything,” Foxx said. “I’m in Atlanta … My sister and my daughter took me to the first doctor. They gave me a cortisone shot. The next doctor said, ‘There’s something up there.'”

In March, Foxx revealed that he planned to address the incident on stage. “Everybody wants to know what happened, and I’ll tell you what happened, but I have to do it my way,” he said while speaking at an African American Film Critics Association awards luncheon. “I’ll do it in a fun way.”

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Foxx later announced a one-man show, saying he would “share his journey through a serious health scare, filled with humor, heart and inspiration.”

But in his Instagram post on Monday, Foxx described his show not as a comedy, but “an artistic explanation” of something “that went terribly wrong.” He also thanked “the great people of Atlanta, especially Piedmont Hospital,” who “allowed me to come back and be on stage and do what I love to do.”

Gayle King attended one of Foxx’s shows and spoke with him backstage in a video she shared on Instagram. The comedian told her that opening her “wounds” was “worrying,” noting that he was worried when he took the stage because he wasn’t sure what the audience would be laughing at. Foxx also confirmed that the show was being taped, and King said in the caption of his video that it’s for a Netflix special.

“I will never go through this again,” Foxx added in King’s video. “My next jokes will start: ‘Knock knock’.”

Contributor: KiMi Robinson, USA TODAY

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