Few details are known.
QUICK FACTS:
- Actor Jamie Foxx is said to be “partially paralyzed and blind,” according to Hollywood journalist A.J. Benza.
- Foxx experienced a health crisis that left him hospitalized in April while filming his latest movie, Back in Action.
- He was then treated in a Chicago location known for treating “severe complex conditions.”
- Mike Tyson stated on the PBD Podcast that Foxx is “not feeling well. They said a stroke. I have no idea what happened to him.”
- “Jamie had a blood clot in his brain after he got the shot. He did not want the shot, but the movie he was on, he was pressured to get it,” Benza said during an interview with Dr. Drew Pinsky of “Ask Dr. Drew.”
- “The blood clot in the brain caused him at that point to be partially paralyzed and blind,” Benza continued, adding that he learned the information from someone close to the actor.
- “I am thinking, ‘Is that why he blew up on the set a week before this medical emergency happened?'” the journalist asked. “Is that why he fired three or four people because he had had it with these mandates?”
CONFLICTING INFORMATION:
- Foxx’s daughter Corinne shared in a since-deleted Instagram post that the actor had a “medical complication” but that “quick action and great care” helped him recover.
- “We wanted to share that, my father, Jamie Foxx, experienced a medical complication yesterday,” a family statement read. “Luckily, due to quick action and great care, he is already on his way to recovery. We know how beloved he is and appreciate your prayers. The family asks for privacy during this time.”
- On May 12, Corinne said in another post, “Sad to see how the media runs wild. My dad has been out of the hospital for weeks, recuperating. In fact, he was playing pickleball yesterday!” an activity that would prove to be difficult for someone allegedly partially blind and paralyzed.
- Benza said the pickleball claims are “lies.”
- “If you read into what they were saying early on, ‘[Foxx] is communicating with us.’ That doesn’t mean talking,” Benza added, suggesting the movie star had limited capabilities. “Then you tell me your father is playing pickleball, give me a break. There is a great shroud of secrecy around Jamie Foxx.”
- Pinsky shared his thoughts on the situation, telling Benza, “Blood in the brain is a cerebral bleed. It is not a stroke. A stroke is a blood clot in an artery to the brain that cuts off the blood supply to the brain and the brain dies.”
- “It has been widely known that he had a stroke, right? They have said stroke many times. To say it is a blood clot in the brain, it is a stroke. It is a blood clot in an artery that cuts off the supply … that part of the brain is dead,” he went on to say.
BACKGROUND:
- Research published in the Nature Cardiovascular Research journal and acknowledged by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) connected a nervous system disorder to COVID-19 vaccines.
- “POTS can follow COVID-19 as part of the post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, but it can also develop after COVID-19 vaccination,” the paper reads.
- The paper found that the “odds of POTS and associated diagnoses were higher in the 90 days after vaccine exposure than the 90 days before exposure, with a relative risk increase of 33%.”
