Jamie Foxx is gearing up to share more details about his 2023 health scare.
“I said, ‘If I can stay funny, I can stay alive,’” Jamie, 56, could be heard saying in a clip introducing his forthcoming Netflix special, Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…, which is set to be released on Tuesday, December 10.
The 18-second clip showed a shadowy figure, presumably Jamie, standing on stage for his first live show since 2023. “I’m back,” his voiceover declared. The teaser trailer’s description referred to the special as “the story we’ve been waiting for.”
Foxx first teased the live show, One More Chance: An Evening with Jamie Foxx, last month with an Instagram post explaining what it was like to return to the stage.
“God is good … As I post these pictures, my heart and my soul is filled with nothing but pure joy,” he captioned a series of behind-the-scene photos on October 14. “On October 3 fourth and fifth I had an opportunity to tell my side of the story and there was no better place than Atlanta, Georgia.”
He added, “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.”
Aside from being a stand-up show, Jamie described the special as “an artistic explanation of something that went terribly wrong.” The actor gave a shout-out to the Piedmont Hospital, who allowed him to return to full health.
Jamie’s daughter Corinne Foxx announced in March 2023 that her dad had suffered a “medical complication.” He was released two months later. He has yet to share any information about what led to the months-long hospitalization. In December 2023, however, Jamie did say that he “couldn’t actually walk” for a bit after the health scare.
One year after news of his hospitalization went public, Jamie announced that his stand-up special was in the works. It appears the actor has recovered, for the most part, as he walked Corinne down the aisle in September during her wedding to Joe Hooten.
“It was incredibly special, considering his health scare last year. I walked down [the aisle] to a strings version of ‘Georgia on My Mind’ by Ray Charles,” she told Vogue of the father-daughter moment last month. “My dad won his Oscar for playing [Charles in Ray] in 2005. At 10 years old, I was his plus one and got to share that special moment with him. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house when we came down the aisle.”
