Jamie Foxx Sets Release Date for Comedy Special About His Health Scare: 'The Story We've Been Waiting For'

Mar. 15, 2025

Jamie Foxxis sharing a laugh with fans very soon.

Last month, Foxx wrote on Instagram about hisemotional experience discussing his April 2023 health scareon stage.

Jamie Foxx on March 3, 2024.Kayla Oaddams/Getty

Kayla Oaddams/Getty

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He said, “My heart and my soul is filled with nothing but pure joy” after he “had an opportunity to tell my side of the story” at the gig in Atlanta.

Foxx suffered his medical emergency on April 11, 2023, while in Atlanta filming the Netflix movieBack in Action, which stars Cameron Diazand is out Jan. 17.

Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx in “Back in Action”.John Wilson/Netflix

John Wilson/Netflix

“I have to thank you Atlanta you showed up and you showed out, 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,” he wrote in the Instagram post.

“When people ask me is this a stand up comedy show I say no it’s an artistic explanation,” explained Foxx. “Of some thing that went terribly wrong, but thanks to the great people in Atlanta especially piedmont hospital you enabled me to come back and be on stage and do what I love to do the most.”

Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…is on Netflix Dec. 10.

source: people.com