Jamie Foxx shares new details about health crisis that left him ‘gone for 20 days’

Lisa Respers France, CNN

(CNN) — Jamie Foxx still hasn’t publically disclosed what caused his hospitalization past twelvemonth but has shared much specifications during an brushwood captured connected video.

The Oscar-winning character was hospitalized successful April 2023 for a wellness situation while he was filming nan Netflix film“Back successful Action” successful Atlanta.

In a video posted to TikTok this week, Foxx tells an unidentified group of group that he had a “bad headache” connected April 11, 2023. He recalls asking his friend for an Advil and past “I was gone for 20 days.”

“I don’t retrieve anything,” he said successful nan video, recorded connected June 29 successful Phoenix.

Foxx went connected to explicate successful nan footage that he was told his sister and his girl took him to a doctor, who gave him a cortisone shot. Another expert told him thing was “going connected up there,” Foxx said, pointing to his head.

“I won’t opportunity it connected camera,” he said successful nan footage.

The prima is known to beryllium guarded astir his backstage life, and he vanished from nan limelight astatine nan clip pursuing what his girl Corinne Foxx past referred to arsenic a “medical complication” connected societal media.

In July 2023, nan “Ray” prima explained he chose not to disclose much accusation because he didn’t want nan nationalist “to spot maine for illustration that.”

“I want you to spot maine laughing, having a bully time, partying, cracking a joke, doing a movie, tv show. I didn’t want you to spot maine pinch tubes moving retired of maine and trying to fig retired if I was gonna make it through,” he said successful a video posted to Instagram astatine nan time, adding that he felt for illustration he had gone “to hellhole and back.”

Foxx shared different wellness update connected his verified societal media successful August 2023.

“You’re lookin astatine a man who is thankful… yet startin to consciousness for illustration myself…” he wrote astatine nan time. “It’s been an unexpected acheronian journey… but I tin spot nan light.”

He went connected to opportunity that he was “thankful to everyone that reached retired and sent good wishes and prayers.”

According to IMDB, “Back successful Action” is presently successful station production.