On multiple occasions, Jamie Foxx has praised his daughters for helping him during his 2023 health scare. Initially, Jamie’s family didn’t share any details about what happened to the comedian with the public. He later told his story via his December 2024 Netflix special, Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was …
It was Jamie’s daughter who made this possible for him.
Jamie was able to keep the details of his health scare private for so long because of his eldest daughter, Corinne Marie Foxx, 31. On Wednesday, March 12, the actor, 57, told Us Weekly that Corinne “took care of me and made sure I was protected.” During his Netflix special, Jamie said his daughters, Corinne and Anelise Bishop, 16, really looked out for him after he suffered a brain bleed that led to a stroke. “They didn’t want you to see me like that. And I didn’t want you to see me like that,” he said. “I want you to see me like this.”
In addition to protecting his privacy, his daughters also “kept [him] alive,” he previously told E! News.
In February, Jamie wished Corinne a happy birthday and thanked her once again.
“May your day be amazing…” Jamie wrote in a February 15 Instagram post for his eldest daughter. “You deserve joy, love, and happiness abundantly … Watching you grow from a little girl to a beautiful woman has been amazing … Thank you for saving my life … you make the world a better place!!!”
He also recently shared more information about his health scare.
On March 12, Jamie also detailed a conversation he had just before his health scare that now seems creepy in retrospect. Not long before he suffered a brain bleed, people urged him to “go over some papers just in case something happens.”
“You know what’s crazy?” he said to People. “Before it happened, I was talking to my people that handle my stuff [and they asked], ‘Jamie, wanna go over some papers just in case something happens?'” When they asked him this question, he wondered what they were talking about and asked, “What’s gonna happen to me?”
Jamie nearly died from the brain bleed.
The comedian previously revealed that medical staff at the hospital told him he had about a 5% chance of survival. A nurse referred to him as “a five-percenter” because “less than 5% of people that have what you have walk out of here.”
Initially, Jamie thought he was getting special treatment because he’s famous, but a nurse assured him that that was not the case. When the nurse told Jamie that she “rolled [her] sleeves up” when he came into the hospital, he thanked her, thinking he was getting special treatment. “She says, ‘Why are you thanking me? You’re not special. I rolled my sleeves up for everybody that comes in here,’” Jamie previously told Variety.
The health scare has changed his perspective.
At the hospital, medical staff told Jamie’s family that “he may be able to make a full recovery but it’s going to be the worst year of his life.” For some time, he couldn’t do anything on his own.
Now, though, everything feels brighter in comparison to that dark time in his life. “You know how you take a picture on your cellphone and you hit that first filter and it brightens up?” he previously said to E! “That’s how life looks now. Everything is altered.”
