Jamie Foxx Reveals That Nurse Told Him He Had a 5% Chance of Survival After Medical Emergency

Jamie Foxx viewable that he used to be akin to dying all the way through his 2023 medical emergency. At the purple carpet at Sunday’s 2025 Blonde Globe Awards, Foxx told Variety‘s Mark Malkin that the caregiver who handled him in Atlanta dubbed him a “five-percenter,” in connection with the not up to 5% of community who live to tell the tale the type of vile mind bleed and stroke that the actor suffered that while.

For over a while Foxx, 57, didn’t disclose a lot in regards to the clinical incident that left him hospitalized, despite the fact that he did in the end visible up about it in his Blonde Globe nominated stand-up particular, What Had Came about Was once…, which used to be discharged in December. In it, Foxx were given emotional at issues, verging on tears describing the feared incident, noting that all the way through the primary two weeks of his remedy his medical doctors weren’t positive he would put together it.

In a testomony to his pleasure in surviving the scare, Foxx advised Malkin “this doesn’t matter,” in connection with the hoopla situation the glitzy, star-studded awards display. He illustrated that time via shouting out the caregiver who advised him he used to be a five-percenter, pronouncing that after she noticed who her affected person used to be she “rolled her sleeves up” and started working.

“I said, ‘thank you so much,’” he recalled.

“She said, ‘why are you thanking me? You’re not special,’” he stated. “I roll my sleeves up for everybody that comes in here. And so when it hits like that and all of the red carpet and the tuxes and this, come on man. And she said, ‘All of [this treatment] will get you to that, but right now you’re a patient and I got to get you right.”

Foxx attended the Globes along with his daughters, Anelise Foxx and Corinne Marie Foxx, who he praised for stepping up all the way through a troublesome occasion. “I say this all the time, when you dream about what you want to be, you don’t dream about tragedy,” he stated, commencing his sunglasses. “You dream the good things, you dream the greatest life in the world. But when tragedy happens, you need somebody there that really loves you.”

Corinne, particularly, took rate via to start with informing the arena about her dad’s “medical complication,” nearest giving an replace a number of weeks next. She stated on the occasion that the crowd were “preparing for the worst,” handiest to inform fanatics that her dad used to be out of the clinic and convalescing (and enjoying Pickleball), date thanking them for his or her assistance.

Latter July, Foxx spread out a little bit in regards to the clinical extremity that landed him within the Atlanta clinic for a generation date he used to be filming the Netflix film Again in Motion with Cameron Diaz, telling fanatics that he had incorrect reminiscence of the details. “Look, April 11 last year — bad headache. I asked my boy for an Advil,” Foxx stated. “I was gone for 20 days. I don’t remember anything.”

Foxx advised Malkin that he likes to mention that Corinne “turned into Michael Corleone,” guffawing that his daughter used to be no longer common with Al Pacino’s iconic flip as the pinnacle of a mob crowd in Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy. “I said, ‘you don’t understand. When Michael seen that his dad was in trouble, he stepped up.’ And she did, man. It was a lot of pressure on her, but she delivered.”

Keep watch Foxx speak about his clinical scare underneath.