Jamie Foxx has a new perspective on life after going through the “darkness” of his 2023 medical emergency.

On Tuesday, Nov. 12, the 56-year-old actor wrote further Instagram that “No bad dayz” is a motto he lives by now.

“This is my mantra… After surviving something I thought I would never get through,” Foxx wrote. “My good friend James, who also happens to be my manager, gave me this phrase…I live by it now…”

Foxx referenced his Medical emergency April 2023which happened while he was in Atlanta filming the Netflix movie Back in action.

“When you walk through the darkness, the light seems brighter… and while I’m at it, I want to thank everyone who sent a prayer… I needed it,” he added.

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Oscar winner, who is the father of two daughterswill talk about his mysterious health scare in an upcoming Netflix special titled Jamie Foxx: What happened was…. premiere on December 10.

In July, however, he told a group of people in a video distributed on X that the situation started when he had a “severe headache”. “I was gone for 20 days,” he said in that video. “I don’t remember anything.”

Foxx performed the comedy special in Atlanta during a series of shows in October. “I have to thank you Atlanta for showing up and showing up, I haven’t been on stage in 18 years but I needed a stage and I needed an audience that was nothing but pure love and that’s what you were. ” he wrote on an October 14 Instagram post.

“When people ask me if this is a stand-up comedy show, I say, ‘No, it’s an artistic explanation,'” he added.

Foxx ended his Nov. 12 caption by asking his followers to check out his special “if you need a spiritual performance right now.”

The star will return to Netflix again in early 2025 with Cameron Diaz in Back in actionwhich begins airing on January 17.