Jamie Foxx made his first public appearance after suffering a medical emergency in April.The actor recently attended the Critics’ Choice Association Celebration of Cinema and Television in Los Angeles.While he did not explain the nature of his illness, the 55-year-old said: “I wouldn’t wish what I went through on my worst enemy.”
US actor Jamie Foxx made his first public appearance in Hollywood since suffering a mysterious medical emergency, telling an award show that he had not been able to even walk six months ago.
Making a surprise appearance at the Critics’ Choice Association’s Celebration of Cinema and Television in Los Angeles Monday night, Foxx said he had “been through some things.”
“It’s crazy. I couldn’t do that six months ago; I couldn’t actually walk,” he told the audience.
“I wouldn’t wish what I went through on my worst enemy because it’s tough when you almost… when it’s almost over, when you see the tunnel,” Foxx added.
The Oscar-winner did not explain the nature of the illness, which occurred in April in the state of Georgia, where the 55-year-old was filming a Netflix movie.
But he joked:
I saw the tunnel; I didn’t see the light! It was hot in that tunnel, too. I don’t know what was going on… ‘Shit, am I going to the right place?’ I see the devil going, ‘C’mon!’
Foxx, an actor, comedian and Grammy-winning singer, won an Academy Award in 2005 for the Ray Charles musical biopic Ray.
Earlier this year, he was filming Back in Action, co-starring Cameron Diaz, in Georgia.
In an Instagram message in July, Foxx told fans he had been “to hell and back” and shared that his “road to recovery had some potholes as well”.
Foxx last month was accused of sexual assault as part of a flurry of suits filed in New York before a statute of limitations deadline.
The alleged victim, identified only as Jane Doe, said Foxx groped her at a rooftop bar in Manhattan in 2015.
READ | ‘The alleged incident never happened’: Jamie Foxx denies sexual assault accusations
Monday’s award ceremony honoured Black, Latino and Asian American performers who have appeared in movies contending for prizes this year.
Foxx received the Vanguard Award for The Burial, a legal drama co-starring Tommy Lee Jones.
Other honourees on Monday night included America Ferrera (Barbie), Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) and Colman Domingo (The Color Purple.)
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