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Jamie Foxx Reveals That Nurse Told Him He Had a 5% Chance of Survival After Medical Emergency
Jamie Foxx said a nurse told him he had a 5% chance of survival after suffering a severe brain bleed that led to a stroke in 2023.
On the red carpet at Sunday’s 2025 Golden Globe Awards, Foxx told Variety ‘s Mark Malkin that the nurse who treated him in Atlanta dubbed him a “five-percenter,” in reference to the less than 5% of people who survive the kind of severe brain bleed and stroke that the actor suffered that year. For over a year Foxx, 57, did not reveal much about the medical incident that left him hospitalized, though he did finally open up about it in his Golden Globe nominated stand-up special, What Had Happened Was …, which was released in December. Last July, Foxx opened up a bit about the medical emergency that landed him in the Atlanta hospital for a month while he was filming the Netflix movie Back in Action with Cameron Diaz, telling fans that he had no memory of the particulars.
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