Jamie Foxx remains to be emotional in regards to the darkest interval of his life.
The Oscar winner, 57, broke down in tears as he mirrored on his 2023 near-fatal stroke whereas accepting the Final Icon Honor on the 2025 BET Awards on Monday.
“Man, we used to take this thing for granted—that God is good, all the time. I cannot even begin to express the love that I feel from everybody out there,” Foxx mentioned whereas getting choked up.
“I gotta be honest — when I saw the ‘in memoriam’, I was like, man, that could have been me,” he added via tears. “But I don’t know why I went through what I went through, but I know my second chance—I’m not going to turn down.”
The “Back in Action” star recalled that he requested God for “one more crack” at life.
“I said whatever reason you put this on me, I promise I’mma do right,” he shared. I’mma do proper in entrance of y’all, as a result of I do know lots of occasions, after we get on we neglect about the place we come from.”
Foxx went on to shout out his “beautiful” daughter Corinne, 31, who was within the viewers along with her sister Anelise, 16, for supporting him throughout his well being disaster.
“You’ve always taken a backseat to everything. But when you needed to drive it, you drove,” mentioned Foxx. “And you made sure I was here. And at a certain point, I’m going to stop crying, but I’m not going to stop yet.”
The comic additionally emotionally recalled how Anelise was by his aspect whereas he was near dying within the hospital.
“When I was fighting for my life in there, they said, ‘We’re going to lose him because his vitals are bad,’” Foxx informed the viewers. “And I didn’t want my 14 year old to see me like that. But Anelise overheard the conversation and she snuck into my hospital room with her guitar and said, ‘I know what my Daddy needs.’”
“And as she played the guitar, my vitals (improved),” he recalled. “And I realized God was in her guitar. The nurses ran in and said, ‘What did they give him?’ My daughter said, ‘Shh, I’ve got him.’”
Foxx was hospitalized in April 2023 as a result of a mind bleed induced him to have a stroke.
In his 2024 Netflix stand-up particular, “What Had Happened Was,” Foxx defined that he had “a bad headache” earlier than he awakened in a wheelchair within the hospital after dropping 20 days of reminiscence.
The “Ray” star known as his restoration interval “the worst year” of his life.
However Foxx has since made a profession comeback. He even earned a Golden Globe nomination for his comedy particular.
