Jamie Foxx Shares Details On Mysterious Health Scare For The First Time: ‘Brink Of Death’

Comedian, actor and music artist Jamie Foxx shared details on his mysterious health scare that left him in a coma for months for the first time during his new Netflix comedy special.

Concerns over Foxx’s health took the internet by storm last year when he was suddenly hospitalized. Details over the actor’s medical condition were scarce, though it was reported that Foxx was in a coma and on the brink of death, something he confirmed earlier this year but provided few details on.

According to multiple audience members in the crowd for his new Netflix special, who spoke to TMZ, Fox News and a number of additional outlets, Foxx provided the first in-depth description of his condition.

The special, which was filmed in front of a live audience in Atlanta back in October, is set to release next Tuesday. One audience member, Demecos Chambers, told Fox News that the “Django: Unchained” star described that he was “on the brink of death” after passing out and slipping into a coma that lasted several weeks.

“His health was failing terribly bad, like Jamie was on the brink of death. His vitals were all down. Everything was going down. It got to the point where the doctors and everybody was telling the family like, ‘Look, he might not make it to pull out of this,’” Chambers told Fox News

Foxx speaks at the 2023 San Diego Comic Con

At the time of his medical scare, Foxx was in Atlanta working on the upcoming Netflix film “Back In Action” alongside Cameron Diaz.

Foxx explained that when he woke up, he thought he had been out for just a few seconds. He soon found out that he had actually been in a coma for several weeks when he woke up in a hospital room and found that he had grown a beard, Foxx explained, according to a separate audience member who spoke to TMZ.

“It was life-threatening, and it didn’t relate to anything with drugs. And it was serious. I don’t want to spoil it for everyone, but I do want to say that it was something that, literally he talks about the experience of when he was working on set in Atlanta, passed out, he woke up and thought he was like, ‘Oh, I just, you know, blacked out or just blacked out for a minute and woke up,'” Chambers told Fox News.

“But he’s like he woke up in a hospital bed … like, ‘Wow, I must be here for a couple hours.’ They was like, ‘No Jamie, you’ve been here for weeks. You were in a coma,'” she added.

Chambers stated that one of the actor’s daughters started to visit Foxx while he was in the hospital and strummed a guitar by his bedside, fearing that he would not recover. Foxx is father to Corinne and Anelise.

“And it was getting to a point where, so his daughter started coming in to the hospital and playing this song on his guitar. That’s like this cherished song between him and her,” Chambers explained, not mentioning which daughter it was.

“And ever since she started doing that, his vitals and everything started to pick up while he’s in his coma. So, the doctors can’t explain. Nobody can explain what’s going on. And even the daughter isn’t really cognizant [of] what’s going on. She’s just there to support her dad in a way that she knows fit. And, so, they’re saying the more she plays, the better and better he starts to recover from this coma until finally he wakes up.”

Foxx further told the audience that at one point, doctors were telling the family that his chances of survival stood at roughly 30 percent.

While portions of the special covered the serious health scare, Chambers added that the rest of it was actually very funny. “So, he talks about that story. And so the whole thing is like it’s really it is a very heartfelt, very serious, very funny story. But, at the same time, it shows how even much of a comedian life can be,” he said.

The highly anticipated Netflix schedule is set to release on December 10.

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