Jamie Foxx's actress daughter, Corrine Foxx, married her longtime boyfriend, Joe Hooten, at her father's home in Thousand Oaks, California, last month. The event was certainly in high spirits, especially after the 56-year-old actor and comedian suffered a mysterious, life-threatening medical emergency last year.
But as the newlywed explains Vogue In a new post about their wedding this week, they managed to include Foxx in their engagement even while he was recovering at a rehab facility in Chicago.
Hooten had originally planned to pose the question with a detailed proposal in Ireland last spring. However, it wasn't until April 2023 that Foxx was hospitalized following an unspecified medical emergency while filming his new action movie. Back in ActionStarring Cameron Diaz in Atlanta. Corrine was also the one to announce this news to the world and quickly flew back to her father, seemingly putting the kibosh on the planned engagement.
“When my father [Jamie Foxx] “We got sick, our plans changed, and we spent the summer in Chicago until she got better,” Corrine told the publication in an interview published Thursday. Same day, just in a different city. “He found a park in Chicago where cherry blossoms were blooming and proposed there.”
“He flew my mom in from Los Angeles and had my aunts hide in a bush and FaceTime my dad the whole time,” she continued. “She even planned a very special after-engagement party in my dad's room [at a physical rehabilitation center] in Chicago. “It was a small celebration, but very sincere and meaningful.”
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Foxx still has not publicly commented on the medical incident that sidelined him for the better part of a year. But in a candid, filmed conversation with fans over the summer, ray Star implied that a commonly available over-the-counter drug triggered the disorder.
“Look, last year on April 11, [I had a] bad headache [and] “He asked my son for Advil,” Foxx said, then snapped his fingers to indicate what triggered this episode. “I was out for 20 days. I don't remember anything.”
Back in Action it has since completed filming and is scheduled to release on Netflix on January 17, 2025. While Foxx was hospitalized, body doubles were reportedly used to film the remaining scenes.