Jamie Foxx provides emotional response to BET Awards tribute: ‘I’ve a lot love to present’

Jamie Foxx, who's at all times good for amusing, couldn't assist however get emotional Monday after legendary musician Stevie Surprise introduced him with the Final Icon Award on the BET Awards.

"Once I noticed that in memoriam, I used to be like, 'Man, that might've been me,'" Foxx mentioned by tears after a tribute to him from artists together with Babyface, Jennifer Hudson, and T-Ache. "However I don't know why I went by what I went by, however I do know my second likelihood, I'm not gonna flip down. I'm not gonna flip it down. I’ve a lot love to present. I instructed him, I mentioned, 'Man, bro, simply give me yet another crack at this, and I promise — for no matter purpose you place this on me — I promise, I'm gonna do proper.'"

He promised to do proper by the viewers within the room on the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, thanking the Black neighborhood for his or her assist.

"You possibly can't undergo one thing like that and never testify," Foxx mentioned throughout his speech. The digital camera additionally panned to the viewers, the place Foxx's daughters Corinne and Anelise had been simply as affected by the second.

The Oscar winner — for the 2004 Ray Charles biopic Ray — had a stroke in April 2023 that was attributable to a mind bleed. As Foxx described in his 2024 standup particular What Had Happened Was, he spent a month within the hospital and later couldn't keep in mind a interval of about 20 days.

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"On Might 4th I wakened," he mentioned. "And after I wakened, I discovered myself in a wheelchair. I couldn’t stroll. In a wheelchair. And I used to be like, 'What the f— , why am I in a wheelchair?'"

It took him months of rehab and remedy to get again to himself. And he took time in his acceptance speech to thank his youthful sister, Deidra Dixon for her assist when he was sick.

"She made certain that she took care of her brother," he mentioned, as Dixon lined her face.

As he thanked every of his daughters, 16-year-old Anelise and Corinne, 31, the tears continued to stream.

"At a sure level, I'm gonna cease crying," Foxx mentioned. "However I ain't gonna cease simply but."

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In fact, Foxx couldn't assist however make the viewers snicker, too. He did a fast evaluation of his profession that included references to the character Wanda that he performed on In Residing Shade and his Any Given Sunday footballer Willie Beaman, in addition to the 2005 track Gold Digger that he collaborated on with Ye, who then glided by Kanye West.

He additionally made a joke about Surprise who, about six minutes into Foxx's speech, walked over to him on the mic at hand him his award. Foxx had the viewers in an uproar along with his impression of the icon.

Surprise had first crack on the comic, nevertheless.

"Jamie and I’m going waaaay again," the blind R&B music legend mentioned in his introduction of Foxx's video tribute (which he claimed to have edited himself). "He hit me up plenty of instances due to his win — the Academy Award for Ray — and I mentioned, 'Jamie, simply since you performed a blind man, that don't imply that we're besties, okay?'"

Watch Foxx's full acceptance speech above.

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