JAMIE Foxx has revealed how ‘excruciating’ it was opening up old wounds for his upcoming one-man show for Netflix.
The 56-year-old Django Unchained actor told CBS Morning’s host Gayle King that it was the worry that had affected him most.
His stand up show for the subscription streaming giant has already been praised as a “humorous but emotional one-man show”.
Called ‘What Happened Was’, it takes a deep dive into the actor’s recent health scare.
The star was hospitalised after a ‘bad headache’ last year, with Jamie saying it had seen him go ‘to hell and back’.
Speaking to Gayle backstage after wrapping up the recording of his show in Atlanta, the Collateral actor admitted to her that it was “an excruciating time to be able to open those wounds every single day for three nights”.
He added: “Usually, when you do a stand-up special, you go out for a year and work every nook and cranny, then you tape it.
“You don’t just show up in Atlanta and turn the camera. It was excruciating because the worry is what gets you.”
“We’ve got a great show in the room, but we don’t know what they may laugh or what they may not laugh at.”
“Any comedian will tell you that’s the thing, the worry is the thing.”
Gayle is heard saying she had never seen a show where the audience is laughing and crying simultaneously, telling Jamie: “Only you could’ve done that”.
Jamie then told her his next stand-up show will consist of “knock, knock” jokes instead of having any focus on his personal life.
“It’s a personal journey, and I hope I never have to … I am never going to go through this again. My next jokes will start out, ‘Knock, knock!’” he said. “I’ll do an hour and a half of ‘Knock, knock’ jokes.”
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Jamie is then seen raising a toast saying: “Let’s sit back, watch it, and build toward a newer, brighter and healthier future.”
Jamie was rushed to hospital in April 2023 after suffering what his daughter Connie had told press in a statement was a severe ‘medical complication.’
While no further details were released the scare was serious enough to place Jamie in a physical rehabilitation centre months later after the actor was left unable to walk.
Much speculation and theories circulated online with Jamie telling fans after his recovery he had been “through hell and back” and didn’t want fans to see him “with tubes running out of me”.
He admitted that his sister and his daughter “saved my life”.
Since the scare the actor has been seen in a video on TikTok discussing the health scare, saying he had a “bad headache” so he “asked my boy for an Advil”.
The actor then snaps his fingers, saying: “I was gone for 20 days. I don’t remember anything.”
