For the first time, Jamie Foxx discusses his mysterious health complication in detail during an emotional Instagram video.
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Speaking to his 16 million followers, he said his sister Deondra Dixon and daughter Corinne Foxx, 29, saved his life.
“To them, to God, to a lot of great medical people, I’m able to leave you this video,” Foxx said.“I cannot tell you how great it feels to have your family kick in in such a way, and y’all know they kept it airtight — they didn’t let nothing out, they protected me — and that’s what I hope that everyone could have in moments like these. But, I’m coming back, and I am able to work.”
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In April, his daughter Corinne did say that her father fell very ill during production of an upcoming film “Back in Action.”
In the Instagram video, Foxx describes his ordeal, by saying “I went through something I thought I would never, ever go through.”
Just a day before, he posted an Instagram picture of himself sitting on a BETMGM gold race car and writing, “Thankful for my @betmgm family and a great few nights in Vegas. We got BIG things coming soon,” Foxx captioned.
In Saturday’s video post, he said he isn’t “paralyzed” or “blind,” but described the medical ordeal as “hellish.”
Here’s some of what he said in the instagram post.
“I know a lot of people were waiting or wanting to hear an update, but to be honest with you, I didn’t want you to see me like that, man,” he said. “I want you to see me laughing, having a good time, partying, cracking a joke, doing a movie or a television show. I didn’t want you to see me with tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through.”He later says, “I just want to say I love everybody, and I love all the love that I got.”
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