…’Something is going on, and I don’t know what it is, but I’m going to ride it out.'”
“That was the last thing I said, and then I was almost in a coma and I couldn’t move, couldn’t talk, couldn’t even say, “Take me to the hospital.” My friend could see something was badly wrong and he took me to the emergency room.”
Another friend, Mark Provart, “stayed at the hospital with me. Then he took me back to the dorm and I was afraid of the dark and he would talk to me every night and calm me down and say stuff like, ‘You’re OK, the demons aren’t real.’ He saved my life.”
Foxx, now 41, says he suffered flashbacks regularly over the next 11 months, and had one or two more years afterwards – even into his thirties.
“It felt like all of my fears were coming true and I was going crazy.”
“I read up on PCP after it happened. It leaves a fingerprint and you can’t get it out of your system. It happened to me when I was 18 and I had 11 months of harsh flashbacks, and then when I was 26 I had a flashback just like that (snaps his fingers) – and another one when I was 32, and that was the last one, but I always worry about it coming back.”
“How did it make me feel? Like living in your worst nightmares. You’re afraid of the dark, afraid of things you see on the television, you feel that things are coming at you. I felt paranoid, and paranoia is craziness. It’s not good.”
Since then, Jamie continues to push past his fears with the help of his family, his daughter and others. Now, in addition to new Hollywood movies coming out in 2018, Foxx is also the executive producer and host of a music gameshow, Beat Shazam, based on the popular song app on FOX TV.