Jamie Foxx celebrated his comeback on the 2025 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 5.
The actor, 57, stepped out for the occasion on the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Chatting with Zuri Corridor throughout E! Dwell From the Pink Carpet, the comic stated that he’s feeling unimaginable after recovering from his 2023 well being scare.
“You know the way you’re taking an image in your mobile phone and also you hit that first filter and it brightens up? That’s the way in which life appears now. Every little thing is altered,” Foxx stated, noting that the cliché of residing daily prefer it’s your final has extra that means for him now. “When it really occurs to you, you recognize it extra, I recognize these moments extra. My two daughters within the again saved me alive … I’m simply blessed, man.”
Foxx famous that he “drew upon” comedy greats George Carlin and Richard Pryor for his Netflix particular, Jamie Foxx: What Had Occurred Was, which is nominated for Greatest Efficiency in Stand-Up Comedy on Tv on the awards present. Nikki Glaser, Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, Ali Wong and Ramy Youssef additionally acquired nods within the class.
After the heavy material of What Had Occurred Was, Foxx famous that he needs to make one thing “humorous humorous” this yr. “I had to do that first although,” he defined. “I needed to let folks know [what happened] in my approach.”
Previous to Sunday’s ceremony, Foxx was already a Golden Globe winner, having secured a trophy in 2005 for Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Movement Image – Musical or Comedy for his position as late musician Ray Charles within the biopic Ray. That very same yr, Foxx was additionally nominated for Greatest Actor in a Miniseries or Movement Image – Tv for Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story and for Greatest Supporting Actor – Movement Image for Collateral.
Foxx’s look on the 2025 Golden Globes comes practically two years after he suffered a medical emergency that left him hospitalized in April 2023. In his December 2024 Netflix particular, he revealed for the primary time that he had a mind bleed that led to a stroke.
Foxx defined that he skilled a nasty headache on the time and requested a pal for some drugs. “Earlier than I might get the aspirin, I went out,” he stated.
“I don’t keep in mind 20 days. What they informed me was that they took me to the primary physician and that first physician gave me a cortisone shot and despatched me residence,” he continued. “What the f— is that? I don’t know if you are able to do Yelps for docs, however that’s half a star, n—-.”
Foxx’s youthful sister, Deidra Dixon, finally sought a second opinion at Atlanta’s Piedmont Hospital, the place a physician knowledgeable her of Foxx’s mind bleed and stroke and informed her, “If I don’t go into his head proper now, we’re gonna lose him.”
After working on Foxx, the physician informed his sister, “He could possibly make a full restoration, but it surely’s gonna be the worst yr of his life.” He awakened from a coma after 20 days after which went to Chicago for rehab.
Foxx divulged that his sister and his daughter Corinne, 30 — whom he shares with ex Connie Kline — saved him out of the highlight amid his restoration. (Foxx can also be the daddy of daughter Anelise, 16, with ex Kristin Grannis.)
“They held me the f— down. ‘No person sees him!’ They minimize all of it off,” he recalled. “They didn’t need you to see me like that and I didn’t need you to see me like that. There’s another excuse, too, why my daughter didn’t need no person to see me. I used to be dizzy from the stroke. I used to be so dizzy, so my head would [shake]. She stated, ‘They gon’ meme the f— out of this motherf—er.’”