Jamie Foxx to get on stage, reveal what really happened to him last year

Jamie Foxx is all set to step up on the stage for the first time since his health troubles last year.

Speaking about what to expect when he addresses all rumours around his health, Jamie said, “Everybody wants to know what happened, and I’m going to tell you what happened. But I’ve gotta do it in my way. I’m gonna do it in a funny way. We’re gonna be on the stage. We’re gonna get back to the standup sort of roots.”

Jamie recently appeared at the African American Film Critics Association’s (AAFCA) Special Achievement Awards luncheon where he gave a sneak peek into what can be expected from his material. Jamie attended the event to accept AAFCA’s Producers Award alongside his Foxxhole Productions partner Datari Turner.

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The year 2023 was big for his company, thanks to the back-to-back successes of Netflix’s They Cloned Tyrone and Amazon’s The Burial. But while his company had a continuous string of successes, Jamie dealt with a life-threatening ailment.

What had happened to Jamie Foxx?

Jamie Foxx had to be hospitalised nearly a year ago for a mysterious illness. It led to speculations about his health and mystery ailment that people close to him were not ready to talk about.

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Jamie revealed that it will be called, What Had Happened Was.

He said that it will put all rumours to rest – like one time when he came out of his car to save a woman’s purse and netizens said, “That ain’t no damn Jamie, that’s a clone,"he recalled.

Jamie made his first appearance post-hospitalisation in December 2023

Last December, Foxx made his first public appearance in months at the Critics Choice Association’s special celebration of Black, Latino and AAPI achievements, where he surprised guests by taking the stage to accept the Vanguard Award.

Then, in January, he was pictured with Cameron Diaz on the set of Back in Action. He will also be seen co-hosting Beat Shazam with his daughter Corinne Foxx. And last weekend, he appeared alongside fellow honorees — filmmaker Deon Taylor, choreographer Fatima Robinson, the creative team behind Killers of the Flower Moon and the family of the late social justice campaigner Michael Latt. The invite-only luncheon was held at the Los Angeles Athletic Club in downtown Los Angeles.