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56-year-old comedian-actor Jamie Foxx has opened up about the cause of his prolonged hospitalization last year, with more details to come in a new comedy show. For Foxx, who was absent from the limelight for weeks upon weeks, much of it is a blur; the situation grew so dire he "saw the tunnel" and could not imagine emerging triumphantly from his health scare. Foxx has alluded to some of his experience has he himself made sense of what happened; Foxx has said "I don’t remember anything" from his time convalescing. However, he also expressed his desire to share details in the way he is most comfortable doing so, primarily through comedy. Here is what Foxx had to reveal about his mysterious hospitalization. Jamie Foxx reveals what led to his mysterious hospitalization in new comedy show Jamie Foxx shared his plans to further reveal what happened during his mysterious hospitalization in a new comedy show / © Amazon Prime Video / Courtesy Everett Collection Foxx gradually returned to the spotlight in the latter half of 2023, and by this May, he was back on stage accepting the Producers Award from the African American Film Critics Association. There, he discussed his recent condition and recovery. RELATED: Jamie Foxx Opens Up About Mystery Illness: He “Couldn’t Walk” And “Didn’t See The Light” "Everybody wants to know what happened, and I’m going to tell you what happened," he said, "but I gotta do it my way. I’m going to do it in a funny way. I’m going to be on stage. We’re going back to the stand-up sort of roots." Inside the recovery process Foxx admitted to seeing the tunnel, albeit without any light / Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency More details will follow with Foxx's comedy shows, but in the meantime, the Ray star has been candid about the whirlwind of sensations and emotions he felt from the onset until he was back home. "April 11 last year, I had a bad headache and asked my boy for an Advil," Foxx recounted while speaking to a group of fans at a restaurant in Phoenix. He continued, "Next thing I knew, I was gone for 20 days. I don’t remember anything. I was in Atlanta, and my sister and daughter took me to the doctor. The doctor said, ‘There’s something going on up there.' I won’t say what it was on camera, but it was serious." Foxx made his first public appearance in December 2023 at the Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Cinema and Television. There, he also addressed his enigmatic health scare. "I couldn’t do that six months ago, I couldn’t actually walk to ," he admitted. Corinne kept fans updated on the comedian's condition / ImageCollect Foxx added, "And I’m not a clone, I’m not a clone. I know a lot of people saying that I was cloned out there. It feels good to be here. I cherish every single minute now, it’s different. I wouldn’t wish what I went through on my worst enemy because it’s tough when it’s almost over, when you see the tunnel. I saw the tunnel, I didn’t see the light. It was hot in that tunnel, too, I don’t know where I was going. ‘Sh—t, am I going to the right place?'" His daughter Corinne had been the primary line of communication, keeping fans updated on his well-being and recovery. Foxx was eventually treated at a "physical rehab facility in Chicago" specializing in "strokes and brain injuries." More details can be expected when Foxx puts out a comedy show that meets his expectations for recounting his ordeal. Foxx admits to having significant memory gaps from when he was ill / © Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection RELATED: Jamie Foxx’s Cover Of ‘The Brady Bunch’ Theme Song Goes Viral Again