Jamie Foxx has suffered an injury during a birthday dinner following an altercation in a restaurant, his spokesperson revealed. The star was celebrating his 57th birthday at the Mr Chow restaurant in Beverly Hills on Friday when a glass was thrown towards him and "hit him in the mouth".
This incident comes shortly after the Oscar-winning actor returned to the comedy scene with his Netflix special Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was, following his recovery from a stroke last year. His representative told the PA news agency: "Jamie Foxx was at his birthday dinner when someone from another table threw a glass that hit him in the mouth. He had to get stitches and is recovering."
"The police were called and the matter is now in law enforcement’s hands."
In his recent Netflix show, Foxx shared his harrowing health experience from 2023. He revealed he was “fighting” for his life last year, when he briefly had to use a wheelchair and learn how to walk again. He also said the doctor told his sister that the star was “having a brain bleed, that led to a stroke”.
He recounted how the doctor informed his sister about his critical condition, saying, "if I don’t go in his head right now, we’re going to lose him", leading to urgent surgery while "my sister knelt down outside the operating room and prayed the whole time".
“Your life doesn’t flash before your face,” Foxx added.
“It was kind of oddly peaceful, I say this all the time; ‘I saw the tunnel. I didn’t see the light. I was in that tunnel, though’. It was hot in that tunnel.”
Foxx also said that the doctor said the medical staff “didn’t find” the origin of the brain bleed, but he was diagnosed with a stroke, and says he does not recall 20 days of his illness.
When he was first hospitalised at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta after suddenly falling ill, Foxx did not reveal any details, instead his family said in April 2023 he was recovering from a “medical complication”.
