Jamie Foxx is just happy to be alive, so winning another award would just be gravy at this point.
A nominee for Best Stand-Up Comedy Performance, Television at the 2025 Golden Globes on Jan. 5 for his special What Had Happened Was, in which he delved into the life-threatening brain bleed and stroke he suffered in 2023 in hilarious, heartwarming fashion, the Oscar winner is appreciating his view from a whole new vantage point.
"You know how you take a picture on your cell phone and you hit that first filter and it brightens up?" he exclusively told Zuri Hall on Live From E!: Golden Globes. "That's how life looks now. Everything is altered." (And see all the stars who hit the red carpet at the Golden Globes in living color.)
"We cliche so much, 'Live life like it's your last,'" Foxx continued. "But when it actually happens to you, you appreciate it more. I appreciate these moments more. My two daughters in the back," he added, gesturing behind him, "kept me alive, Corinne Marie and Anelise. And I'm just blessed, man, 'cause it was over."
He thanked Netflix "for allowing me to tell that type of story," and also shouted out inspirations George Carlin and Richard Pryor for paving the way by taking the stage in their day to talk about their own health scares.
"I drew upon that," he said, "but what was interesting about the special was, I couldn't take it out and show it to anybody. So at 1:28 every day, I went downstairs to my makeshift stage" and worked it out with his team for three months.
Then he got onstage in Atlanta, "without ever practicing any of that material, and they took care of us," Foxx added. "I'm glad it was received well. I'm about to go out and do some funny-funny though...I had to do this first, though. I had to let people know in my way what it was, and it's been received so well."
And telling his story how he had to tell it could win the Ray star his second Golden Globe.
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Zendaya
in custom Louis Vuitton and Bulgari jewelry.
Emma Stone
in Louis Vuitton.
Timothée Chalamet
in Tom Ford.
Demi Moore
in custom Armani Privé.
Ariana Grande
in a 1966 couture gown by Givenchy.
Cynthia Erivo
in custom Louis Vuitton.
Eiza Gonzalez
glittering in gold.
Sarah Paulson
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Michelle Yeoh
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Felicity Jones
in a silver sequined Prada dress.
Jodie Foster
in Dior.
Nicole Kidman
in custom Balenciaga Couture.
Andrew Garfield
in a Gucci suit.
Mikey Madison
in custom Bottega Veneta and Tiffany & Co. jewelry.
Ayo Edebiri
in a Loewe suit.
Salma Hayek Pinault
in a maroon Gucci dress.
Sofia Vergara
in a Georges Chakra mermaid gown.
Adrien Brody
in Thom Browne.
Anya Taylor-Joy
in a pink slip dress from Dior and Tiffany & Co. jewelry.
Kristen Bell
in a champagne Ashi Studio dress.
Gal Gadot
in custom Giorgio Armani Privé.
Cara Delevingne
in a glittering blue dress.
Pamela Anderson
in Oscar de la Renta.
Melissa McCarthy
in Christian Siriano.
Dwayne Johnson
in a purple shirt and coat combo.
Miley Cyrus
in Celine.
Angelina Jolie
in Alexander McQueen.
Viola Davis
in Gucci.
Kaley Cuoco
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Colman Domingo
in Valentino and Boucheron jewelry.