Jamie Foxx claims he thought his stroke was a hoax

Jamie Foxx, who had a stroke, woke up in the hospital believing he was being “pranked.”

After a brain bleed in April 2023 left the “Back in Action” hero comatose for nearly three weeks, he “didn’t remember anything.” When he awoke, he was certain he had been the victim of a complex joke.

During his appearance on “The Graham Norton Show,” he stated: “I was really ill, but I’m doing OK now. It helps you understand that in order to go through it, you need your loved ones by your side. 

Since I couldn’t recall anything that had happened, I believed I was being played when I woke up twenty days later. That was just insane.

The 57-year-old celebrity said that he delivered so many jokes that people started to fear he had gone “mad,” but he credited humor for helping him get through his trauma.

“I realized that the best way to get back was to be funny,” he continued. After I made so many jokes that people thought I was crazy, I would pretend to be someone else. For three days, I was Denzel Washington.

According to the “Creed III” star, he believes that his life was spared by his 16-year-old daughter Anelise’s guitar playing.

In the first 13 to 15 days of his hospitalization, Jamie, who has Anelise with Kristin Grannis and is also the father of Corinne, 30, from a relationship with Connie Kline, said that staff at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta were afraid they would “lose” him because his “vitals” were all over the place. However, they miraculously started going “down” when the teenager began strumming the instrument at her father’s bedside.

His Netflix presentation, “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was,” brought back memories of: They said that over the first 15 days, they were afraid I would die since my vital signs were out of control.

During the course of 13 or 14 days, they gave him every drug they could think of in an effort to keep him quiet. His vitals are so elevated that we risk losing him, therefore we need to keep him quiet.

The worst thing to have in a hospital room when you’re trying to remain composed, he joked. Family members who are Black.

God “was in that guitar,” according to the devout celebrity, and it served as his “spiritual defibrillator.”

Then a miracle occurred, and it was working via my youngest daughter,” he continued. She’s fourteen. “I know what my daddy needs … that’s my daddy,” she stated, sneaking into my hospital room with her guitar, against my wishes.

They reported my vitals dropped while she was playing. The nurses at the nursing station couldn’t understand. They gave him something like, “Wow, what?” She muttered, “Ssh,” as they dared to enter the room. “I got him.” Have you heard what I discovered? It was that instrument that held God. The spiritual defibrillator I use is that.

On January 17 at 10.40 p.m., watch Jamie’s interview on “The Graham Norton Show” on BBC One. obtainable on BBC iPlayer as well.