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Internet Reports Say That Jamie Foxx Suffered A ‘Stroke’ & Had ‘Surgery’ … Family Has Not Confirmed!

Tiffany Brockworth |

Last night, Jamie Foxx daughter’s Corrine revealed that he suffered a “medical complication” and is currently recovering in the hospital. Shortly after the announcement, folks all across Twitter began speculating what was the nature of the “complication.”

Well multiple people, who have been reliable in the past, are now reporting that Jamie may have suffered a stroke. Media Take Out has not been able to confirm the reports, and the family has not acknowledged whether the reports are accurate.

But that hasn’t stopped the rumors from spreading across social media like wildfire.

The rumor began on a Reddit forum, which purportedly contained people working on the set of Jamie’s new movie, Back in Action – which is scheduled to be released on Netflix in 2024.

According to one person in the forum, they claim that Jamie suffered a “stroke.” The person, who wrote the post an hour before Corrine’s above IG post, claimed that Jamie was “in surgery.”

The post was quickly picked up by multiple blogs on Instagram, and repeated as fact. It’s now burning up the rumor mill all across Black Twitter.

Prayers up to Jamie and family.

Jamie is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He became widely known for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 biographical film Ray, for which he won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics’ Choice Movie Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. That same year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the crime film Collateral. Since 2017, Foxx has served as the host and executive producer of the Fox game show Beat Shazam.

Other acting roles include Staff Sergeant Sykes in Jarhead (2005), record executive Curtis Taylor Jr. in Dreamgirls (2006), Detective Ricardo Tubbs in the 2006 film adaptation of TV series Miami Vice, the title role in the film Django Unchained (2012), the supervillain Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Will Stacks in Annie (2014), gangster Bats / Leon Jefferson III in Baby Driver (2017) and as Walter McMillian in Just Mercy (2019), where he received a SAG Award nomination. In 1991, Foxx joined the cast as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In Living Color until the show’s end in 1994. Following this success, he was given his own television sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show, in which he starred, co-created and produced, airing for five highly rated seasons from 1996 to 2001 on The WB Television Network.

Foxx is also a Grammy Award-winning musician, producing four albums, which have charted in the top ten of the U.S. Billboard 200: Unpredictable (2005), which topped the chart, Intuition (2008), Best Night of My Life (2010), and Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses (2015).

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