Jamie Foxx celebrated his comeback at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 5.
The actor, 57, stepped out for the event at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Speaking to Zuri Hall during E! Live From the Red Carpet, the comedian said that he’s feeling incredible after recovering from his 2023 health scare.
“You know how you take a picture on your cell phone and you hit that first filter and it brightens up? That’s the way life looks now. Everything is altered,” Foxx said, noting that the cliché of living every day like it’s your last has more meaning for him now. “When it actually happens to you, you appreciate it more, I appreciate these moments more. My two daughters in the back kept me alive … I’m just blessed, man.”
Foxx noted that he “drew upon” comedy greats George Carlin and Richard Pryor for his Netflix special, Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was, which is nominated for Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television at the awards show. Nikki Glaser, Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, Ali Wong and Ramy Youssef also received nods in the category.
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After the heavy subject matter of What Had Happened Was, Foxx noted that he wants to make something “funny funny” this year. “I had to do this first though,” he explained. “I had to let people know [what happened] in my way.”
Prior to Sunday’s ceremony, Foxx was already a Golden Globe winner, having secured a trophy in 2005 for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his role as late musician Ray Charles in the biopic Ray. That same year, Foxx was also nominated for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture – Television for Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story and for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Collateral.
Foxx’s appearance at the 2025 Golden Globes comes nearly two years after he suffered a medical emergency that left him hospitalized in April 2023. In his December 2024 Netflix special, he revealed for the first time that he had a brain bleed that led to a stroke.
Foxx explained that he experienced a bad headache at the time and asked a friend for some medicine. “Before I could get the aspirin, I went out,” he said.
“I don’t remember 20 days. What they told me was that they took me to the first doctor and that first doctor gave me a cortisone shot and sent me home,” he continued. “What the f— is that? I don’t know if you can do Yelps for doctors, but that’s half a star, n—-.”
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Foxx’s younger sister, Deidra Dixon, ultimately sought a second opinion at Atlanta’s Piedmont Hospital, where a doctor informed her of Foxx’s brain bleed and stroke and told her, “If I don’t go into his head right now, we’re gonna lose him.”
After operating on Foxx, the doctor told his sister, “He may be able to make a full recovery, but it’s gonna be the worst year of his life.” He woke up from a coma after 20 days and then went to Chicago for rehab.
Foxx divulged that his sister and his daughter Corinne, 30 — whom he shares with ex Connie Kline — kept him out of the spotlight amid his recovery. (Foxx is also the father of daughter Anelise, 16, with ex Kristin Grannis.)
“They held me the f— down. ‘Nobody sees him!’ They cut it all off,” he recalled. “They didn’t want you to see me like that and I didn’t want you to see me like that. There’s another reason, too, why my daughter didn’t want nobody to see me. I was dizzy from the stroke. I was so dizzy, so my head would [shake]. She said, ‘They gon’ meme the f— out of this motherf—er.’”
