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Jamie Foxx Taped a Netflix Special About His Health Scare


“It was an excruciating time, opening those wounds every single day.”

In the 22 years since Jamie Foxx put out his last new stand-up special — 2002’s musical-comedy classic, I Might Need Security — the public has watched the comedian become an Oscar-winning actor, a Grammy-winning pop superstar, and most recently, the subject of widespread death rumors. In April 2023, after the comedian was hospitalized for a mysterious illness, speculation about his health status circulated all over the internet, causing widespread public confusion. Over a year later, we know now that Foxx is alive and well, but details of what actually happened to him during this period are limited to one public comment he made in July about a “bad headache” that caused him to black out for 20 days.

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