Actor/singer Jamie Foxx was overcome with emotion when he returned to the stage for the first time in 18 years earlier this month.

The 56-year-old recorded his upcoming Netflix special, One More Chance: An Evening with Jamie Foxx, in Atlanta and took to Instagram to reflect on the experience on Monday.

Jamie shared two photos of himself on stage, one of which saw him wiping away tears from his eyes, alongside a poignant message in which he spoke about his 2023 health scare which saw him hospitalized in Atlanta after suffering a “medical complication”.

Emotional Foxx Photocredit Instagram

He began: “God is good…. As I post these pictures, my heart and my soul is filled with nothing but pure joy…on October 3 fourth and fifth I had an opportunity to tell my side of the story and there was no better place than Atlanta Georgia. 

“I have to thank you Atlanta you showed up and you showed out, I haven’t been on stage in 18 years, but I needed the stage, and I needed an audience that was made up of nothing but pure love and that’s what you were.”

Describing his one-man show, Jamie said that it is an “artistic explanation” of his health scare, which put him in a “20-day coma”.

He continued: “When people ask me is this a stand-up comedy show I say no it’s an artistic explanation. Of something that went terribly wrong.

“But thanks to the great people in Atlanta especially piedmont hospital you enabled me to come back and be on stage and do what I love to do the most.”

He added: “#nobaddays as my guy James would say #secondchance thank you ATLANTA.”