Jamie Foxx was living it up as the ultimate birthday boy, celebrating his big day and spilling the tea on why this one hit differently for him!
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00:00Okay moving on to Jamie Foxx and of course everyone's talking about his
00:04Netflix special which dropped this week where he finally revealed that what had
00:10happened to him back when he had was hospitalized a year and a half ago was a
00:15brain bleed that led to a stroke. So after all the success of this special
00:21it's been Golden Globe nominated he was out last night celebrating, celebrating
00:26his birthday and he was as grateful as you would think. He was there surrounded
00:32by a bunch of friends Vivek A Foxx, Anthony Anderson, Halle Bailey. Big
00:39gathering at Mr. Chow. As he was leaving we spoke to him about being here to
00:44celebrate this birthday what it meant to him. How did it feel you know being back
00:47on stage? I thank the fans man what a blessed time to be on stage.
00:56It's just amazing man to have gone through something so crazy but to get back on
01:02make some chuckles and let people know what's up. How did you how did you get to
01:07a place where you were able to talk about it on stage? George Carlin, Richard
01:14Pryor. Are you spending the holidays Jimmy? Man with the family man. How has it been celebrating your
01:24birthday this year? Man it's beautiful because I didn't know if I was gonna be
01:28able to celebrate it. I gotta say if you haven't seen the special it is really
01:32they're moments very emotional. Right and you could just imagine him being so
01:35happy to celebrate this birthday because like he said at the end of that sound he
01:39didn't know if he was going to be alive to not only celebrate a birthday but to
01:42be able healthy enough to get back on stage and do what he loves acting stand
01:47up comedy so for him to be in such great and it's such a good position in life
01:52now going through what he went through I think he's just going to go going forward
01:56is going to live literally every moment like it's his last. It's really exciting
02:02to see Jamie Foxx out and about being healthy when he had that health scare I
02:06think as a black community we all held our breath for a second we were so
02:09nervous but to see him make a full recovery feels like a tiny little
02:11miracle and it was great to be able to show him his flowers and his appreciation
02:15while he's still here and I hope he felt that love and the support from his fans.
02:18You can tell in the special he could feel it the audience was with him the
02:23whole time. It had everything, the laughs. And the fact that he worked in laughs too
02:28is a credit to his talent.