In an emotional chat with the audience for Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…, taped in Atlanta, the city where he was working when he fell ill, Foxx said he was initially sent home by medics after receiving a cortisone injection.
His sister then came to him and felt he was not her own, so she drove him to Piedmont Hospital in her car.
The doctor then told him he had a bleed on the brain that had led to a stroke, adding: “If I don’t get into his head now, we’re going to lose him.”
He said his sister prayed the whole time during his operation outside the theatre.
Doctors could not determine the cause of the brain hemorrhage.
Fox also told the audience that “your life doesn’t flash in front of your face, it was kind of strangely calm, I saw a tunnel, I didn’t see a light.”
He joked: “It was hot in that tunnel, am I going there wrong?”
Fox said the doctor told his family, “Maybe he can make a full recovery, but it’s going to be the worst year of his life.”
