By Michaela Gordoni
Jamie Foxx and his two daughters let the tears fall when he accepted the Ultimate Icon Award at the BET Awards on Monday.
“Man, we used to take this thing for granted — that God is good,” he began. “I cannot even begin to express the love that I feel from everybody out there.”
In 2023, Foxx experienced a brain bleed that led to a stroke. He had complained of a headache when he suddenly lost consciousness, USA Today reported. He was out of commission while he recovered. His health issues were revealed in the Netflix special, JAMIE FOXX: WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS…
The award show held a memorial segment for those who passed away.
“I got to be honest…When I saw that in memoriam, I was like, ‘Man, that could’ve been me,’” he said. “But I don’t know why I went through what I went through, but I know my second chance, I’m not going to turn it down.”
He told God that if He gave him a second chance, he would not let Him down.
“I have so much love to give. I told Him, I said, ‘Man, bro,’ I said, ‘Just give me one more crack at this and I promise.’
“I said, ‘Whatever reason you put this on me, I promise I’m [going to] do right. And I’m [going to] do right in front of y’all, because I know a lot of times, when we get on we forget about where we come from,” he said.
He thanked his sister, Diedre Dixon, for helping save his life.
“When I went through what I was going through, she shut it down. And she made sure that she took care of her brother,” he said.
He also thanked his two daughters for being by his side.
“My beautiful daughter, Corinne, I cannot say enough about you. You’ve always taken a backseat to everything. But when you needed to drive it, you drove.”
“And you made sure I was here…At a certain point, I’m going to stop crying, but I’m not going to stop just yet,” he said.
He then turned toward his daughter, Anelise Estelle Foxx.
“My baby with the big hair. She hides under that hair because she got something special. You’re so beautiful, man,” Foxx said.
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“When I was fighting for my life in there, I got to say this. They said, ‘We’re going to lose him because his vitals are bad.’ And I didn’t want my 14-year-old to see me like that,” the actor continued.
Instead, she took a guitar into his hospital room.
She said, “’I know what my Daddy needs,’” he continued. “And as she played the guitar, my vitals dropped. And I realized that God was in that guitar.”
“And the nurses ran in and said, ‘What did they give him?’ My daughter said, ‘Shh, I’ve got him.’”
“You know what I found out? It was God in that guitar,” he said in his documentary. “That’s my spiritual defibrillator.”
He said, “God is good, and all the time God is good.”
Anelise then walked onto the stage with that guitar, and they hugged.
“When you think about, as you grow older, you wonder about the hard times. Who’s going to be there? Who’s actually going to be there? I don’t have to wonder that anymore,” he said.
How wonderful is it that Foxx got a second chance at life? May he use it well.
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