*Jamie Foxx is opening up about the medical odds he beat after suffering a stroke in 2023 that nearly took his life. The 58-year-old actor shared new details on the podcast “Baby, This Is Keke Palmer” this week.
Foxx recalled a nurse at the Atlanta hospital where he was treated telling him just how rare his survival was. He said she told him, “less than 3 percent of people who come in here with what you had walk out here. We usually put them in a box.” She called him a “miracle.”
Foxx said her words stuck with him. “It makes you want to go get it,” he said, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Behind the recovery was a harder emotional battle. Foxx admitted he struggled to accept why he lived. “I couldn’t make sense of it, and I remember, the parts I do remember, like the rehab part, was frustrating,” he said. He resisted the idea of a second chance, recalling his response to doctors: “f— the second chance. What was wrong with my first chance?”
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Comedy became his coping mechanism throughout treatment. Foxx said his humor made it hard for medical staff to properly assess him.
“They couldn’t do wellness checks on me because I only had comedy to lean on. So I was joking all the time,” he said.
Watch Jamie”s conversation with KeKe in the clip below.
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