Jamie Foxx Reveals Eerie Conversation He Had Right Before His 2023 Hospitalization: 'Crazy' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Jamie Foxx at the premiere ofNumber One on the Call Sheetin Los Angeles on March 12, 2025.Photo:John Salangsang/Shutterstock

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Jamie Foxxis recalling an eerie conversation he had about getting his affairs in order right before his 2023near-death medical emergency.

As the actor, 57, remembers, he asked his team, “‘What’s gonna happen to me?’ " — and not long after, he suffered abrain bleed that led to a strokewhile making his movieBack in Action.

“Boom! Gone,” says Foxx, referring to the time immediately following his health crisis when he went into a coma and didn’t wake up until weeks later.

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The Oscar winner goes on to say the incident was much different from what he had always imagined his death might be like, likening it to a certain scene in a 1998 action-crime flick.

“I used to watch the movieColors, when they had a shootout … I thought I was gonna go out like like Rocket [Don Cheadle], like go out in a shootout in the mall or something,” Foxx says. “I didn’t think I was just gonna go out asking for an aspirin.”

Foxx was in Atlanta filmingBack in ActionalongsideCameron DiazandGlenn Closewhen he suffered the medical emergency in April 2023. He later revealed there are 20 days after the incident that he can’t remember.

“When it happened, theamount of love that was poured, the amount of people that reached out, really meant something,” Foxx says, adding of the aftermath, “When I was talking to [God], he said, ‘Hey man, I’m gonna give you the second chance — what you gonna do with it?’ "

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Jamie Foxx performs stand up for his Netflix special ‘What Had Happened Was’ at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA.Parrish Lewis/Netflix

Parrish Lewis/Netflix

His answer? “I said, ‘I’m gonna put more smiles on people’s faces and I’m gonna do everything I can to.’ "

To that end, Foxx channeled his experience into a standup comedy special titledWhat Had Happened Was …, which premiered on Netflix in December 2024.

“People like, ‘Where are the jokes?’ I said, ‘Y’all know me; I’m funny, man, I gotta tell the real story,’ " Foxx tells PEOPLE. “There was some pushback on the God thing. I said, ‘Man, what y’all talking about? I gotta say what is.’ "

As for what’s next, “I got some new jokes coming, so I’m going out,” he says. “I’ll probably be in Houston doing my thing.”

source: people.com