Jamie Foxx Thought He Was Being Pranked After Waking from Coma | Video

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*Jamie Foxx initially thought he was being pranked when he woke up from a coma after a health scare in early 2023. 

The 57-year-old Oscar winner suffered a brain bleed that led to a stroke in 2023 and spent 20 days in a coma. Foxx recalled this experience during a recent appearance on “The Graham Norton Show,” saying, “I had a bad situation happen, but I’m back now.”

“When something bad happens you need people that really, really care about you and love you to get you through that,” he added.

The comedian recalled waking up from his nearly month-long coma in disbelief at his condition.

Jamie Foxx - What Had Happen Was - Netflix
Jamie Foxx – What Had Happen Was – Netflix

“I said, ‘What? Where is Ashton Kutcher? Am I being Punk’d? So when it settled in, I was like … I really gotta try to try to get back, you know, and the only way I did get back was kind of being funny. I said in my stand up, if I could stay funny, you know, I could stay alive,” Foxx said.

“When they would come check on me. I was always telling jokes to the point to where they thought that something was wrong with me … I was never myself, I would always be somebody else. And for like days I was Denzel [Washington],” he continued. 

As we reported earlier, in his new Netflix special titled “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was,” Foxx opened up about his stroke and recovery. His ordeal began on April 11, 2023, when Foxx experienced a sudden severe headache and visited a doctor who initially attempted to treat him with a shot and send him home. However, his sister insisted on seeking a second opinion, leading them to another doctor who provided an accurate diagnosis.

“He said, ‘He’s having a brain bleed that’s led to a stroke,’” Foxx told the crowd during the Netflix special. “Damn. Me. Me, man. Me. Here’s the thing, when you dream about what you wanna be in life, you don’t dream tragedy. You dream everything is good. … You don’t dream that something could go wrong, but when something does go wrong, you need a sister, four-foot-eleven, full of nothing but love.”

Foxx was initially reluctant to share details of his medical setback.

“I want you to see me laughing, having a good time, partying, cracking a joke, doing a movie or television show,” he said. “I didn’t want you to see me with tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through.”

At the Golden Globes this month, Foxx told reporters: “I’m lucky to be alive.”

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