Jamie Foxx Describes Being “Gone for 20 Days” Amid 2023 Health Scare

Jamie Foxx hasn’t said a lot about the “medical complication”—as his family called it—that he experienced in April 2023.  

But he shared a few more harrowing details about that still-unspecified health scare with a group of people at an event in downtown Phoenix, according to The Art of Dialogue, which posted a snippet of undated video of the conversation to X (formerly Twitter).

Foxx fell ill while he was in Atlanta to film the Netflix movie Back in Action, costarring Cameron Diaz in her first role since they were in 2014’s Annie together.

On April 11, 2023, the Oscar winner had a “bad headache,” he shared in the clip. “Asked my boy for an Advil.”

Foxx snapped his fingers. “I was gone for 20 days,” he said. “I don’t remember anything.”

He said that his sister Deidra Dixon and daughter Corinne Foxx took him to a doctor who gave him a cortisone shot. Then, he continued, a second doctor told him, “‘There’s something going on up there.'”

Foxx pointed to his head.