{"id":27305,"date":"2023-08-07T14:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T18:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=27305"},"modified":"2023-08-07T14:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T18:55:20","slug":"jamie-foxx-credits-his-sister-for-saving-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/08\/jamie-foxx-credits-his-sister-for-saving-his-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Foxx Credits His Sister For Saving His Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27323\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/08\/Famie-Foxx_credit-iamjamiefoxx-Instagram-inset-frequency11-Instagram-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27323\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/08\/Famie-Foxx_credit-iamjamiefoxx-Instagram-inset-frequency11-Instagram-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iamjamiefoxx \/ Instagram.com | Inset: frequency11 \/ Instagram.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jamie Foxx recently took to Instagram to wish his sister Deidra Dixon a happy birthday and to thank her for saving his life. The &#8220;They Cloned Tyrone&#8221; star shared a touching birthday tribute to his sister saying that he wouldn&#8217;t be alive without Dixon. Foxx is referring to his hospitalization back in April for a &#8220;medical complication.&#8221; He shared a series of photos of Dixon with the caption, \u201cHappy birthday to my beautiful for sister&#8230;you are magical you are beautiful you are the courageous lionesses #leoseason.&#8221; He concluded the post saying, \u201cAnd without you I would not be here\u2026 had you not made the decisions that you made I would\u2019ve lost my life\u2026. I love you forever and ever happy birthday sis #swipeleft.\u201d Foxx and Dixon share one other sibling, sister DeOndra Dixon, who sadly passed away in October 2020 at the age of 36.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CvabrIkPMl1\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CvabrIkPMl1\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Jamie Foxx (@iamjamiefoxx)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Back in April, Foxx&#8217;s daughter, Corinne, shared that her father had suffered a &#8220;medical complication&#8221; and had been hospitalized. The news sent media outlets into a frenzy, with rumors swirling that Foxx was &#8220;blind&#8221; and &#8220;paralyzed.&#8221; Foxx&#8217;s family debunked those rumors in May saying that the actor had been discharged from the hospital and was recuperating at home. In July, Foxx addressed his hospitalization in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Cu_Iog9tJIk\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Instagram video <\/a>crediting his sister and daughter who he says &#8220;saved my life.&#8221; He continued by saying, \u201cI cannot tell you how great it feels to have your family kick in, in such a way, and y\u2019all know they kept it airtight, they didn\u2019t let nothing out. They protected me. And that\u2019s what I hope everyone could have in the moments like these.\u201d Foxx addressed the rumors and explained why he hadn&#8217;t shared more about his hospitalization saying, \u201cI went through something that I thought I would never ever go through. I know a lot of people were waiting and, you know, wanting to hear updates but to be honest with you I just didn\u2019t want you to see me like that man.\u201d He said that he wants his fans to see him laughing, joking and having fun and not with \u201ctubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was going to make it through.\u201d He ended the video thanking God saying, \u201cI\u2019m here on Earth because of God, man. So I love all y\u2019all. I just wanted to jump on here and let you know that I\u2019m on my way back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Foxx recently took to Instagram to wish his sister Deidra Dixon a happy birthday and to thank her for saving his life. The &#8220;They Cloned Tyrone&#8221; star shared a touching birthday tribute to his sister saying that he wouldn&#8217;t be alive without Dixon. 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