Jamie Foxx opens up: 'I was gone for 20 days'

Jamie Foxx speaks out about health scare

Jamie Foxx opened up about a health scare that left him hospitalized in April 2023, revealing that it began with a headache. (Credit: Dr. Brenda Combs via Storyful)

Oscar-winner Jamie Fox recently shared details about a health scare that put him in the hospital last year.

The 56-year-old actor revealed that his medical emergency started with a headache as he addressed a group of people outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Phoenix on June 29.

"Look, April 11 last year, bad headache, asked my boy for an Advil. [Snaps fingers] I was gone for 20 days. I don’t remember anything," Foxx said in the video.

In a video filmed by Dr. Brenda Combs and shared with the social news platform Storyful, Foxx shared that while he was in Atlanta, his sister and daughter took him to several doctors, with the first giving him a cortisone shot.

The "Collateral" star added that another doctor told him "something was going on up there," motioning to his head. Still, Foxx didn’t disclose anything else from his conversation with the doctor.

Foxx's daughter Corinne said the actor suffered a "medical complication" on April 11, 2023.

Last year, Foxx said in an Instagram post that a health problem he experienced sent him "to hell and back," but he’s never publicly stated the illness he was dealing with.

This story was reported from Washington, D.C.