Jamie Foxx is opening up about his April 2023 medical emergency. In his new Netflix comedy special Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…, released Dec. 10, the Academy Award winner, 56, grew emotional as he revealed that he suffered “a brain bleed that led to a stroke” that left him fighting for his life in a hospital and unable to remember a 20-day period from April to May 2023.

“Please, Lord, let me get through this,” the actor said as he discussed his “mystery illness.” He went on to state that while on the Atlanta set of his Netflix movie Back in Action on April 11, 2023, he “was having a bad headache, and I asked my boy for Aspirin. I realized quickly that when you’re in a medical emergency, your boys don’t know what the f– to do. Before I could get the aspirin [clicks his fingers] I went out.”

Fox, who was left fighting for his life in a hospital, said he was unable to remember a 20-day period from April to May 2023. He “woke up” on May 4 in a wheelchair and was told that his friends took him to a doctor in Atlanta who gave him a cortisone shot and then “sent me home.”