Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was...

Jamie Foxx suffered a very serious medical emergency.

Bad enough that family members flew in.

Actor Jamie Foxx is asking for prayers

as the actor has now spent more than two weeks

in an Atlanta hospital.

Foxx literally died and had to be revived. That's what the health emergency was.

Somebody in the clone department gettin' lazy, bro.

It's not Jamie Foxx.

My gut feeling is telling me that Jamie Foxx is dead.

Dead. Dead. Dead.

Please put your hands together for Corinne Foxx, y'all!

Hi.

Hi.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This is a very special moment for me and my family.

It is a blessing to even be here.

So, ladies and gentlemen, give it up for my dad,

the real Jamie motherfuckin' Foxx!

Thank you.

Atlanta, make some noise!

You have no idea how good this feels.

Jamie! Jamie! Jamie! Jamie! Jamie!

Come on, Atlanta!

I'm back!

I'm back! Keep it playin'!

Jamie! Jamie! Jamie! Jamie! Jamie!

You have no idea how good it feels, Atlanta.

I was fightin' for my life, but I'm here in front of you.

If I dance all night, don't mind me.

I'm happy to be alive.

Jamie! Jamie! Jamie!

Jamie! Jamie!

Give it up for my daughter, man. Give it up.

This shit feel good as fuck, man.

I don't know if…

I'm still sexy, though. You see that sexy shit.

Still sexy, motherfucker. You say, "I love you" still.

You have no idea, Atlanta. Y'all saved my life.

Just 400 yards away from here, at Piedmont Hospital,

they put me back together again.

God be the glory.

Yeah!

God is good.

Yeah!

- And all the time! - God is good!

Man, I ain't gonna make it through this shit.

Atlanta saved my life.

Atlanta saved my life. The internet tried to kill me, though.

They said I was paralyzed.

- That's right. - Said I couldn't walk. But look at me now.

I can do this now. Hold on a minute.

Okay, okay, okay, okay. That's good.

That's enough. That's too close.

Stop, stop, stop.

That's too close. Y'all good?

Atlanta saved my life.

The internet was trying to kill me, though.

The internet said that Puffy tried to kill me.

That's what the internet was saying. I know what you're thinking, "Did-he?"

Hell naw, nigga. I left them parties early .

I was out by nine, nigga.

"Somethin' don't look right, nigga."

"It's slippery in here, nigga."

Atlanta saved my life.

The internet tried to kill me.

Katt Williams!

Katt Williams got in on it.

Did y'all see the special?

Katt Williams said he knew.

"Jamie Foxx got so much money."

"They say he's sufferin' from a mystery illness."

"A mystery illness?"

"What the

That shit sound just like that, nigga.

That nigga said… "Goddamn, that sound…

…a mystery illness."

"What the fuck?"

That nigga turned into the Wicked Witch of the West.

"A mystery illness."

"I'll get you my little Jamie and your little dog Toto too."

Katt will say 2,000 things that don't make sense, right?

But then say four things that make sense and put "sir" after it.

"The glass is half full, sir. I just filled it to the top, sir."

"Man goes to bed with an itchy ass, he wakes up with a smelly finger, sir."

I know, man.

Y'all know me, man.

And I'm so glad to see y'all here.

I'm so glad to be here.

This is what I needed, man.

You got a lot of people that prayed to make sure I was here.

- Yes. - Yes.

And I appreciate every prayer, man.

Now, what's interesting is Katt Williams might be onto something.

Because it is a mystery.

We still don't know exactly what happened to me.

All I can tell you is that I appreciate every prayer.

Because I needed… every prayer.

I appreciate every well-wish, Atlanta.

Uh… to the world, I… I can't thank you enough,

even when I see people on the street,

and they roll their window down and yell out, "Man, we glad you here."

As I look out, and I see my family and I… see my friends.

I can't tell you how good it feels.

If you could see it through here…

it feels amazing.

It actually happened here in Atlanta.

A little history, Atlanta,

I started doing stand-up comedy back in 1991, right here in Atlanta.

So it's fitting that I came back here to tell you, uh, the story

because…

what had happened was…

We love you.

- Atlanta saved your life. - Hey, hello. You did.

Wow. Man, please, Lord. Let me get through this.

- Please. - All right, you got it!

You got it!

April 11th, I was having a bad headache, and I asked my boy for a aspirin,

and I realized quickly that when you in a medical emergency,

your boys don't know what the fuck to do.

And I was like, "Damn."

But I was having such a bad headache.

So, I asked my boy, I said, "Listen, I need a… a… a aspirin."

Before I could get the aspirin…

…I went out.

I don't, um…

I don't remember 20 days.

Oh, man.

What they told me was, was that…

…they took me to the first doctor.

And that doctor just gave me a cortisone shot

and sent me home.

Yeah, I don't know… What the fuck is that?

I don't know if you can do Yelps…

…for doctors, man.

That's half a star, nigga.

You know? "No, he good. Give him that."

Man, what the fuck?

But my sister… said, "No."

All right.

Four foot 11… of nothin' but pure love

said that something's wrong with my brother.

She came over to see me, and I was…

They told me I was leth… lethargic.

And she says, "Get him in the car. That ain't my brother right there."

My little sister who's always played the background,

now gotta play the lead.

Amen.

They say she drove around Atlanta, sorta aimlessly.

She didn't really know where the hospitals was.

But as she was drivin' around, she came up on Piedmont Hospital.

Give it up for Piedmont.

What's interesting about it is that as she drove around,

she didn't know anything about Piedmont Hospital,

but she had a hunch that some angels is in there.

Mm-hmm.

'Cause she said, "That's what we gon' need."

All right.

- Yes! - Hallelujah!

- Love you. - Love you.

- Atlanta saved your life! - Atlanta saved my life.

So they tell me my sister took me into the hospital.

And this cool white boy, Dr. Schuette…

Cool white boy. They say he had on a Laker jersey.

Just cool as shit, you know?

But… he told my sister

some horrible news about… her big brother.

He said…

"He's havin' a brain bleed…

…that's led to a stroke."

Damn.

Me.

Me, man. Me.

Wow.

Here's the thing.

When you dream about what you want to be in life,

you don't dream tragedy.

- No. - You dream everything is good.

"I… I got the life. I got the cars."

"I got all that."

You don't dream that something would go wrong.

But when something does go wrong…

you need a sister.

- Four foot 11. - Mm-hmm.

Full of nothin' but love.

The cool doctor with the Laker jersey, white dude, said, "Listen."

"He's havin' this brain bleed that led to a stroke,

and if I don't go in his head right now, we're gonna lose him."

What I was told was my sister fired right back

and said, "You can go in his head,

but you ain't gonna find nothin'."

He said, "Why you say that?"

She said, "Have you seen how big this nigga's head is?"

My sister made a joke

because sometimes you gotta laugh…

- To keep from crying. - …to keep from cryin'.

What actually happened was

the doctor said, "If I don't go in his head,

we're gonna lose him, and she fired back and said,

"You can go in his head, but you're not gonna find anything