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Jamie Foxx tear 2025 Bet Awards When he reminded his recent stroke.
“Man, we used to take this for granted – that God is good,” Foxx, 57, said when he accepted the honor of the Ultimate icon at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Monday, June 9.
“All the time,” he continued. “I can’t even start expressing love I know everyone out there. “
He added, “I have to be honest – when I saw“ in memoriam ‘ [portion of the awards show]I was like ‘man, it could have been me.’ But I don’t know why I went through what I went through, but I know my other chances [to] Turn down. I’m not going to reject. “
The Oscar-winning actor reminded, asking for “another crack” in life.
“I said for any reason that you put this to me, I promise to be right,” he told the audience. “I’m doing just about everyone because I know many times when we get on, we forget where we come from.”
In April 2023 Foxx suffered from medical emergency It left him in the hospital. He revealed in December 2024 in his Netflix specialty that he had a A brain leak that led to a stroke.
Foxx explained that he had experienced a bad headache at the time and asked a friend for a medicine.
“Before I got the aspirin, I went out,” he said. “I don’t remember 20 days. They told me they took me to the first doctor and that the first doctor gave me a cortisone shoot and sent me home,” he continued. “What f *** it is? I don’t know if you can do it to the doctors, but it’s half to the top.”
Foxx’s younger sister, Deidra DixonI was looking for another opinion on the Atlanta Piedmont Hospital, where the doctor informed him of Foxx’s brain leak and stroke and told him, “If I don’t go to his head right now, we will lose him.”
After working on Foxx, the doctor told the sister, “She may be able to improve the perfect recovery, but it’s the worst year of her life.” He woke up from a coma after 20 days and then went to Chicago for rehabilitation. He stayed away from the spotlight for months as he recovered from the fear of health.
In his speech on Monday, Foxx thanked his team “for pulling me through. I have experienced. I don’t want to say I’m old but old. So usually at this age, at this age, you play that dad at Disney. Do you know that you have that big-a ** sweater and coffee mug? But luckily I have a big team that stabilized me.”
He added that he showed his peers in the black community: “The icon prize is the most important award because it comes from us.”