Jamie Foxx Speaks About His Conversation With God During Life-Threatening Illness

After spending months away from the spotlight recovering from a life-threatening medical complication, Jamie Foxx is back in a big way.

The 57-year-old actor and comedian, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance in a Stand-Up Comedy on Television for his Netflix special, “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was,” showed up to the award ceremony this past weekend with his daughters Corinne and Anelise and a whole new outlook on life.

In a red carpet conversation with Extra’s Billy Bush, Foxx said that after surviving what he’s now revealing was a brain bleed that led to a stroke, he’s not taking life for granted. As a matter of fact, he says he’s living by a new motto, “no bad days.” He also got real about a conversation he had with God about how he’d live after making his triumphant comeback.

“When you’re in Hollywood, you know, God sometimes slips away,” he said. “But when I spoke to him, he says, ‘Listen, I need you to sit over here for a second. When you get back out there, I ain’t telling you to be an angel, but just – you know – you have a different thing.’”

Although Foxx didn’t take home the statue that night, he says he has a new appreciation for the family and friends who were there for him during one of the darkest moments of his life.

“When you dream about what you want to be, you only dream about the good things – the career, the house. You never dream tragedy,” Foxx told Billy Bush in their interview. “When tragedy happens in a real way, you need solid family and friends, so the two ladies that are with me tonight, Corinne Marie Foxx and Anelise, held me down in a way that is hard to interpret in these settings. You have to show up and really take over everything, and she did that and that’s why I’m here.”