Tragic Details About Jamie Foxx

May 2024 · 2 minute read

Jamie Foxx was always open to reconciling with his biological parents — "It's just kind of like, my arms are open if you wanna get the hug. And if you don't, my arms are still open," he told GQ — but it wasn't easy. Gilbert Willie Jr., Foxx's best friend since childhood, told GQ in 2004 that Foxx's mother "doesn't ask for anything from him, but he wishes she would." And when he took the mag to visit Louise, she didn't even open the door. "She gets like this," he explained. "She doesn't want to answer the tough questions."

In 2005, Foxx told O magazine that he and his mother didn't speak to each other, but in 2008, things changed. As he revealed on "The Graham Norton Show" in 2020, "I would always send her tickets on Christmas, [saying] 'If you ever wanna come, you know, for Christmas,' so finally she accepted. She comes, we have a good Christmas and then New Year's comes." Before they knew it, "It's February and she hadn't left." He shared that his mother has been living with him ever since. 

It was not an easy transition, but it has been powerful. "We're trying to learn [about] each other," Foxx told The Sunday Times, and in doing so, he began to "realize certain things that you missed when you were growing up, like, 'Oh, I do that because of that,' or 'Oh, I do this because of this.'"

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