The 55-year-old American actor was rushed to a health facility last spring. Monday evening, Jamie Foxx reappeared in public at a ceremony in Los Angeles.
Reassuring. If Oscar-winning American actor Jamie Foxx did not reveal the origin of the illness that has kept him away from the public in recent months , he made his first public appearance in Hollywood, revealing that he seemed to be doing much better.
Making a surprise appearance at a film and television awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Monday night, the actor said he “has been through a lot.” ” It’s crazy. I couldn’t even do that six months ago, I couldn’t walk,” he told the audience, without specifying the nature of the health problem that affected him .
Jamie Foxx became emotional while receiving the Vanguard Award from the Critics Choice Association in Los Angeles, his first public appearance since he was hospitalized in April 2023
Jamie Foxx, whose real name is Éric Marlon Bishop, spoke for the first time in a video in July, claiming to have “come back from hell” . Suffering from a “medical complication”, the 55-year-old actor was rushed to a medical establishment in Georgia, in the south of the United States, in April, where he was filming a film for Netflix.
Hollywood heavyweight Jamie Foxx
His daughter, Corinne Foxx, was keen to dispel the rumors a month later, assuring on Instagram that her father had “been out of the hospital for several weeks and (was recovering)”.
Jamie Foxx notably won the Oscar for best actor in 2005 for his stunning incarnation of singer Ray Charles, legend of soul, in the biopic “Ray”. He was also nominated for an Oscar for his role in “Collateral” the same year, and also made an impression by playing a slave conquering his freedom in Quentin Tarantino’s western “Django Unchained”