*Will Smith chopped it up with his longtime pal DJ Jazzy Jeff about the music producer’s recovery from what he suspects was the potentially deadly novel coronavirus.
Jazzy opened up on Smith’s Will From Home Snapchat series about being diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs.
“I came home from my trip. I was like, ‘I feel like I’m coming down with something’ and got into bed, and I don’t remember the next 10 days,” Jazzy Jeff recalled during his virtual interview with Smith. “I had a temperature that reached 103. I had the chills. I lost sense of smell. I lost sense of taste.”
Complicating matters was the fact that he couldn’t get tested for the contagion despite showing symptoms of the respiratory illness, PEOPLE reports.
“They gave me a flu test,” he said. “And when I went and got the chest X-ray, she came in and said, ‘You have pneumonia in both your lungs.’ ”
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The cultural icon also noted, “Unfortunately, people think we’re at the end [of the pandemic], and I think we’re really at the beginning.”
Earlier this month, the Grammy winner addressed rumors that he was in critical condition, telling fans in an Instagram video, “Don’t believe everything that you hear on the internet because a lot of it wasn’t true. Now I really was sick. I was sick though. I was real sick.”
He said at the time, “And I gotta send a huge shoutout to my family, especially my wife, for taking care of me when I was sick. But I’mma let you know I ain’t sick no more.”
On Monday, Jazzy Jeff encouraged followers across his social media to practice social distancing, writing, “Be grateful that you are here… Be grateful for what you have.. You have more than a lot of people!!! Now take yo ass in the house! #KeepYoAssInTheHouse.”
He also shared an image that read: “I’m bored as sh*t…. But I’m alive…
According to the latest COVID-19 reports, there are 580,878 confirmed cases in the United States, and 23,607 deaths related to the illness.
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