Jamie Foxx Tear up at the 2025 BET Awards When he recalled his recent stroke.
“Man, we used to take this thing for granted – God is good,” Foxx, 57, said in his acceptance of Ultimate Idol honors at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9.
“Always,” he continued. “I can’t even start expressing my love for everyone there. ”
He added: “I have to tell the truth – when I see ‘in Memoriam’ [portion of the awards show]I was like, “Man, that might be me.” But I don’t know why I went through everything I went through, but I know my second chance wouldn’t be there [to] turn down. I won’t refuse. ”
The Academy Award-winning actor recalled his life’s request for “re-cracking”.
He said to the audience, “I say something and put it on me, and I promise I’m right.” “I’m doing it in front of everyone because I know a lot of times, when we keep moving forward, we forget where we are from.”
April 2023, Fox Suffering from a medical emergency That made him hospitalized. He revealed on the December 2024 Netflix special that he has one Blood in the brain causes stroke.
Foxx explained that he had a bad headache at the time and invited a friend to take some medicine.
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“I went out before I got the aspirin,” he continued, “I don’t remember for 20 days. What they told me was that they took me to the first doctor, the first doctor gave me a shot and sent me home.” “What is that? I don’t know if you can yell at the doctor, but it’s half a star.”
Fox’s sister, Deidra Dixonseeking a second opinion at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, where the doctors told her Foxx about his brain bleeding and stroke and told her: “If I weren’t in his mind right now, we would have lost him.”
After operating on Foxx, the doctor told his sister: “He can recover completely, but it will be the worst year of his life.” Twenty days later, he woke up from a coma and went to Chicago for recovery. While recovering from his health panic, he stayed away from the spotlight for months.
During his speech on Monday, Foxx thanked his team for “making me a place. I’m very experienced. I don’t want to say I’m older, but I’m older.
Speaking to his peers in the black community, he added: “The Icon Award is the most important one because it comes from us.”
