Jamie Foxx confirmed that he had a stroke that almost killed him.

During his comedy special Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…, now streaming on Netflix, the 56-year-old Academy Award winner said that the medical issue he experienced on the Atlanta set of his Netflix film Back in Action in April 2023 was a “brain bleed that led to a stroke.”.

Foxx grew upset when recounting the experience, wiping tears from his eyes and telling the audience, “Please, Lord, let me get through this.”

“On April 11, I was suffering a nasty headache and asked my boy for an aspirin. I immediately understood that when you’re in a medical emergency, your lads have no idea what to do,” Foxx began, before adding, “Before I could grab the aspirin [clicks his fingers], I went out. “I can’t remember 20 days.”

Foxx went on to say that his pals brought him to a doctor in Atlanta, who gave him a cortisone injection and then “sent me home,” but it was his sister Deidra Dixon who “knew something was wrong” and remarked, “That ain’t my brother right there.”

“What the f— is that?” After making jokes about the shooting, Foxx received a home visit. “I doubt doctors can do Yelps, but that’s half a star.”

The actor claimed that Dixon took him around Atlanta and brought him to Piedmont Hospital, which Foxx described as being “just 400 yards away” from the recording location of the special. “You saved my life barely 400 yards away at Piedmont Hospital. “They put me back together again,” he explained.

“She didn’t know anything about Piedmont Hospital, but she had a hunch that some angels [were] in there,” he told me.

At Piedmont, Foxx reported that a doctor had given Dixon “some terrible news about her big brother.” “He’s suffering from a brain bleed that has resulted in a stroke,” the doctor informed Dixon. He stated that if they didn’t operate on him immediately, he would die.

“If I don’t go in his head right now, we’re going to lose him,” Foxx remembered his sister being informed, adding that she “knelt down outside the operating room and prayed the whole time.”

“Your life does not flash before your eyes. It felt really pleasant,” Foxx said of being unconscious, adding, “I saw the tunnel. I did not see the light. I was in that tunnel, however. It was scorching in that tube. S—, am I heading to the wrong spot in this mother——? I peered at the end of the tunnel and thought I saw the devil saying, “Come on.”

The musician went on to say that the doctor informed his sister of his medical emergency: “We didn’t figure out where it was coming from, but he’s suffering a stroke. A full recovery is possible, but this will be his worst year. That’s what it was, Atlanta. You now have the story. “You saved my life.”

He also became upset when he recalled discovering himself in a wheelchair. “I can’t remember the last 20 days, but on May 4th, I awoke [clicks fingers], and I found myself in a wheelchair.” I was unable to walk in a wheelchair, questioning why I was in one at all.

Foxx then described how his friend Dave informed him that he had suffered a stroke and advised him not to try to get out of the chair since he could not walk.

The celebrity then acted out his attempt to get out of the wheelchair on stage, admitting he couldn’t and telling his companion it must be “a horrible joke.” “Jamie Foxx doesn’t get strokes,” he said.

He then tearfully remembered shouting, “Stop this f—ing prank.”

Foxx has stayed fairly silent on what brought him to the hospital, only revealing a few facts in the past, such as how he had a “bad headache” and “was gone for 20 days.”

Demecos Chambers, who attended an October recording of Foxx’s special in Atlanta, told PEOPLE that the actor disclosed on the show that he was “literally seconds and moments away from death” when he fainted on April 11, 2023.

“It was pure fatigue. Chambers recalled Foxx saying onstage, “His body was really tired from getting older, and his body was failing him.”

The actor was in Georgia at the time, filming Back in Action alongside Cameron Diaz and Glenn Close, but he did not fall on set.

“When he passed out, he thought he was just out for a few moments,” Chambers told PEOPLE. He literally passed out in an elevator and believed he awoke a few hours later. He was genuinely in a coma and didn’t wake up for a few weeks.

Chambers stated that when Foxx—father of daughters Corinne, 30, and Anelise, 16—was in a coma, one of the girls would strum the guitar for him.

“She plays one of their favorite tunes or anything else every day,” Chambers explained. And he claimed it was the only thing he could remember hearing in his sleep, and it drew him out of his coma,” Chambers added.

After waking up, the Ray actor “went to a rehab facility and talked about how his motor skills had to start from day one,” according to Chambers.

Foxx wrote on Instagram in October about what it was like to disclose facts about her mental health scare on stage for the event.

“My heart and soul are filled with nothing but pure joy.” After he “had an opportunity to tell my side of the story” during the performance, he added.

“I have to thank you, Atlanta. You showed up, and you showed out. I haven’t been on stage in 18 years, but I needed the stage, and I needed an audience that was made up of nothing but pure love, and that’s what you were,” he said in a subsequent post.