Jamie Foxx Will Address His 'Serious Health Scare' in an 'Intimate' One-Man Show: What We Know So Far

The show will take place in Atlanta on three nights, from Oct. 3 through 5

Jamie Foxx, winner of the Producers Award attends the AAFCA Special Achievement Honorees Luncheon at The Los Angeles Athletic Club on March 03, 2024
Jamie Foxx in Los Angeles on March 3, 2024. Photo:

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Jamie Foxx is getting personal.

On Monday, Sept. 2, the Oscar winner revealed more details about his upcoming "unforgettable one-man show," in which he will "[take] the stage to share his journey through a serious health scare, filled with humor, heart, and inspiration," he wrote on Instagram.

Titled One More Chance: An Evening with Jamie Foxx, the show will take place in Atlanta on three nights, from Oct. 3 through 5, with "ticket information coming soon."

Foxx's Instagram post consisted of a black box with the words "WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS," before going more into details about the show in his caption.

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"Experience Jamie Foxx like never before in this intimate and engaging performance, as he opens up about his struggles, triumphs, and everything in between," continued the caption on the Monday post shared by Foxx, 56.

It concluded, "Get ready for a night of laughter, reflection, and genuine connection."

Among those in the comments expressing their excitement for the Back in Action star's newly announced venture was Chance the Rapper, who wrote, "I'm there."

Added Questlove, "Damn I might have to roll to this jawn."

Jamie Foxx speaks onstage during The Critics Choice Association's Celebration Of Cinema & Television: Honoring Black, Latino And AAPI Achievements at Fairmont Century Plaza on December 04, 2023
Jamie Foxx in Los Angeles on Dec. 4, 2023.

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Foxx's announcement comes six months after he attended the 7th Annual AAFCA Special Achievement Awards, where he teased that he would finally discuss his health journey in an upcoming stand-up comedy special.

“Everybody wants to know what happened and I’m gonna tell you what happened but I got to do it in my way,” he said at the time, while accepting the AAFCA’s Producers Award for his company Foxxhole Productions.

Foxx was midway through production on the Netflix movie Back in Action in April 2023 when he suffered a "medical complication" and spent a number of months out of the public eye. He and costar Cameron Diaz were seen filming again in January, and Netflix announced late last month that the film will begin streaming on Jan. 17.

A few days before his appearance at the AAFCA Special Achievement Awards in March, Foxx shared that he planned to return to performing comedy live, as he posted a video from his 2002 HBO stand-up special I Might Need Security to Instagram.

"Going to get on somebody’s stage somewhere near you. I got some jokes, and a story to tell ... " the They Cloned Tyrone actor wrote in a caption to the video.

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Actor/Producer Jamie Foxx seen at THE BURIAL Special Screening at Linwood Dunn Theater on December 17, 2023
Jamie Foxx in Los Angeles on Dec. 17, 2023.

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In July, Foxx divulged more details about the mystery illness that landed him in the hospital, telling a group of people gathered around him at an outdoor café in Phoenix that he had a "bad headache" and "asked my boy for an Advil."

After snapping his fingers, as seen in a video shared by The Art of the Dialogue on X (formerly known as Twitter), the actor said, “I was gone for 20 days,” before adding, “I don’t remember anything.”

“So they told me — I’m in Atlanta — so they told me my sister and my daughter took me to the first doctor,” Foxx said of his sister, Deidra Dixon, and daughter, Corinne Foxx.

“They gave me a cortisone shot,” he told the woman next to him. (A cortisone injection, the Mayo Clinic explains, is used to "relieve pain, swelling and irritation.")

Pointing to his head, Foxx continued, “The next doctor said something’s going on up there. I won’t say it on camera. But it was ... ", before shrugging and trailing off as the video came to an end.

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