Foxx admitted he leaned on comedy throughout the ordeal, slipping into impressions of friends like Denzel Washington as a way to reconnect with himself. That coping style sometimes made it tough to know how he was really doing.
He recalled returning to meet the roughly 60 nurses who cared for him, a meeting framed by gaps in his memory. His daughter Corinne, 32, said she moved into caretaking mode and didn’t have time to be scared. Corinne posted on Instagram on April 12, 2023 that he was improving after a "medical complication," and Foxx later reflected in a July 2023 Instagram clip that recovery had setbacks but that he was getting back to work.