He quipped on his Netflix special Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was ... “On April 11, I was having a bad headache and I asked my boy for aspirin. I realised quickly that when you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f*** to do.”
He shockingly spilled: “I don’t remember 20 days.”
He then said: “Your life doesn’t flash before you. It was kind of oddly peaceful.
Jamie Foxx as vampire hunter Bud Jablonski in the 2022 film Day Shift. Photo / Netflix
“I saw the tunnel, but I didn’t see the light. It was hot in that tunnel.”
Jamie quipped: “S***, am I going to the wrong place?”
He credits his sister, Deidra, with “saving [his] life” after she “aimlessly” drove him around before taking him to Atlanta’s Piedmont Hospital where he underwent a lifesaving procedure.
Addressing why his family wanted to keep details of his health scare to themselves, he said: “I was dizzy from the stroke, so my head would bob around and my family thought everyone would ‘meme the f***’ out of me.”
Jamie vividly remembers waking up on May 4 and being unable to walk.
“When I woke up, I found myself in a wheelchair. I couldn’t walk.”
Jamie didn’t want to believe he’d had a stroke and recounted his therapist telling him about his ego: “You need to kill the old Jamie so the new Jamie can thrive.”
He also reflected: “God blessed me with money and fame, but when I forgot about God, He blessed me with a stroke.”
