Jamie Foxx revealed that he was close to death during his 2023 medical emergency. On the red carpet at Sunday's 2025 Golden Globe Awards, Foxx told Variety‘s Mark Malkin that the nurse who treated him in Atlanta dubbed him a "five-percenter,

Jamie Foxx revealed his nurse told him that he had a 5 percent chance of surviving the medical emergency that almost took his life in 2023.

Jamie Foxx is a “five-percenter,” and by that, we mean he only had a 5% chance of surviving his health scare last year. Appearing at tonight’s Golden Globes, Foxx told Variety that one of his nurses called him a “five-percenter” because “less than 5% of people that have what you have walk out of here” with the severity of stroke that he had.