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Jamie Foxx is lucky to be alive. In his new Netflix special, What Had Happened Was…, the actor, 57, finally reveals what led to his shock hospitalization in 2023 and just how close he came to dying. “April 11, I was having a bad headache, and I asked my boy for an aspirin,” he recalled. “Before I could get the aspirin, I went out.”
Jamie was rushed to Atlanta’s Piedmont Hospital, where a doctor delivered “some horrible news” to his family. “He said, ‘He’s having a brain bleed that has led to a stroke,’ ” the Oscar winner shared, holding back tears. “‘And if I don’t go in his head right now, we’re gonna lose him.’”
On May 4, Jamie woke up and was transferred to a rehabilitation center in Chicago, where he learned to walk again. “It’s changed him,” a source exclusively tells In Touch of the health scare. “Jamie feels like he’s been given a second chance. Life is too precious and he doesn’t want to waste a single minute.”
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