Will Smith, Kevin Hart and more react to Jamie Foxx breaking silence after health scare
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Celebrities are showing love for Jamie Foxx after the actor shared a long-awaited video update Friday night following his health scare.
“I’m gonna bear hug the fuck outta you when I see you again 🐻 ❤️,” Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson commented on the “Ray” star’s video.
“Awww Man!! Who’s cuttin’ onions?? Love U Foxx!! Your Light Is Needed ‘n Appreciated Right Now!,” wrote Will Smith, who worked with Foxx in the 2001 boxing film “Ali.”
“This video just warmed my soul,” Kevin Hart chimed in. “Foxx you are needed man. We love you and we are forever with you. So glad to see my brother and so glad to see that you are in good spirits 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾.”
“Oh Jamie ! So happy to see your light shining so BRIGHT!! You are so loved and appreciated ✨💫🌟,” added actress Reese Witherspoon.
Celebrity friends showered Jamie Foxx with love after the actor gave a video update on his health Friday. Instagram
“Love you, Foxx!!! 🙌🏻,” Justin Timberlake wrote.
Paris Hilton also shared her love, urging the actor to “stay strong” in the comments.
“so glad to see you back my brother. 💪🏾✊🏾👑,” LL Cool J shared, as Tracee Ellis Ross wrote that she is “sending [Foxx] so much love!!!”
Reese Witherspoon wrote that she was “happy” to see the “Ray” star “shining so BRIGHT.” FilmMagic
“We love you and we are forever with you,” wrote Kevin Hart. Kevin Mazur/WireImage
Michael B. Jordan, who acted alongside Foxx in “Just Mercy” in 2021, wrote, “I love you brother!!”
On Friday, Foxx took to Instagram to share a video message to his fans for the first time since he suffered a mystery “medical complication” in April.
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“I went through something I thought I would never, ever go through,” the “Django Unchained” star said in the video posted to his Instagram, adding that he went through “hell and back” during his health scare.
Paris Hilton also shared her love in the comments section for the movie star. Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images
A teary-eyed Foxx continued, “I know a lot of people were waiting or wanting to hear an update but to be honest with you, I didn’t want you to see me like that, man.”
While Foxx didn’t disclose what health issue he had incurred in his video, he did add that he was on the “road to recovery.”
Back in April, his oldest daughter, Corinne, broke the news that her father had been hospitalized for a “medical complication.”
Will Smith, who acted alongside Foxx in “Ali,” wrote that his formore co-star’s “light” is “needed.” Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
“We wanted to share that, my father, Jamie Foxx, experienced a medical complication yesterday,” the “47 Meters Down: Uncaged” actress, 29, wrote in a statement posted to social media at the time. “Luckily, due to quick action and great care, he is already on his way to recovery.”
Foxx and his family stayed mum about the illness for months following his hospitalization.
However, he checked into a Chicago rehab facility that specializes in stroke recovery, traumatic brain injury rehab, spinal cord injury rehab and cancer rehabilitation.
Foxx’s daughter Corinne shared an update in April that the “Day Shift” actor had been hospitalized due to a “medical complication” but was on the mend. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Although rumors began to swirl that Foxx’s health had taken a turn for the worse, Corinne denied the speculation, saying that her dad “has been out of the hospital for weeks, recuperating.”
Despite the speculation, Foxx has been spotted out and about in the last couple of weeks.
Over the July 4 weekend, the “In Living Color” alum was seen out smiling as he rode on a yacht in Chicago.
Since July, the actor has been spotted out and about and seemingly in high spirits. @barber_homie_quan/POPNATION/TMX / MEGA
The movie star — who is also dad to daughter Annalise, 14 — was also spotted at a Topgolf driving range in Naperville, Ill.
Most recently, he was seen being a Good Samaritan, returning a woman’s lost purse in Chicago.
Foxx suggested that he was ready to get back to work amid his recovery, teasing that “big things” were coming “soon” via his social media Thursday.
Source: Page Six
