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

Mar. 15, 2025

Jamie Foxx in Los Angeles on March 3, 2024.Photo:Kayla Oaddams/Getty

Kayla Oaddams/Getty

Jamie Foxxis getting personal.

On Monday, Sept. 2, theOscarwinner 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.

TitledOne 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’sInstagram postconsisted 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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It concluded, “Get ready for a night of laughter, reflection, and genuine connection.”

AddedQuestlove, “Damn I might have to roll to this jawn.”

Jamie Foxx in Los Angeles on Dec. 4, 2023.Leon Bennett/Getty

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Foxx’s announcement comes six months after he attended the 7th Annual AAFCA Special Achievement Awards, where he teased that hewould finally discuss his health journeyin 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 movieBack in Actionin April 2023 when he suffered a “medical complication” and spent a number of months out of the public eye. He and costarCameron Diazwere 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 heplanned to return to performing comedy live, as he posted a video from his 2002 HBO stand-up specialI Might Need SecuritytoInstagram.

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

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Jamie Foxx in Los Angeles on Dec. 17, 2023.Eric Charbonneau/Getty

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In July, Foxx divulgedmore details about the mystery illnessthat 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.”

“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, theMayo Clinicexplains, 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.

source: people.com