Jamie Foxx is filled with “pure joy” after returning to the stage following his 2023 medical emergency.
The Django Unchained actor was hospitalized in April 2023 due to an unspecified health condition. After he and his family spent months staying silent about the details of the illness, a video emerged in July of the star telling fans he had been hit with a “bad headache” on April 11 and “asked my boy for an Advil” — leading to him being “gone for 20 days.”
Foxx has now updated fans again during one of his solo shows he started in Atlanta this month.
He uploaded an Instagram post on Oct. 14 showing a gallery of photos from his performance, one of which showed him appearing to wipe away tears.
Foxx also said on the social media platform his “soul is filled with nothing but pure joy.”
“I had an opportunity to tell my side of the story and there was no better place than Atlanta, Georgia. I have to thank you Atlanta; you showed up and you showed out. I haven’t been on stage in 18 years, but I needed the stage, and I needed an audience that was made up of nothing but pure love — and that’s what you were,” he added.
“I don’t remember anything … my sister and my daughter took me to the first doctor. They gave me a cortisone shot. The next doctor said, ‘There’s something going on up there,’ ” Foxx added. The video emerged in July 2024 about his illness.
“Everybody wants to know what happened, and I’m going to tell you what happened, but I gotta do it in my way. I’m gonna do it in a funny way,” Foxx said to the audience during the African American Film Critics Association Awards luncheon in March, indicating that he was going to address the incident on stage.
Foxx later announced a one-man show and teased that he would share his “journey through a serious health scare, filled with humor, heart and inspiration.”
However, in his Oct. 14 Instagram post, he cryptically described his show not as a stand-up comedy but “an artistic explanation” of something that “went terribly wrong.”
