Jamie Foxx injured at birthday dinner after glass thrown at his table

Jamie Foxx has been injured during a birthday meal following an altercation in a restaurant, his spokesman said.

The comedian and actor was at the Mr Chow restaurant in Beverly Hills on Friday as he turned 57, when a glass was thrown in his direction and “hit him in the mouth”.

It follows the Oscar-winning actor making a comeback to the comedy stage in the Netflix special Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was… following his recovery from a stroke last year.

A spokesman for the comedian and actor told the PA news agency: “Jamie Foxx was at his birthday dinner when someone from another table threw a glass that hit him in the mouth.

“He had to get stitches and is recovering.

“The police were called and the matter is now in law enforcement’s hands.”

Last week, Foxx’s programme aired on Netflix, where he said he was “fighting” for his life in 2023, when he briefly had to use a wheelchair and learn how to walk again.

He also said the doctor told his sister that Foxx was “having a brain bleed, that led to a stroke”.

He says his sister was then told “if I don’t go in his head right now, we’re going to lose him”, and he was sent for surgery, and “my sister knelt down outside the operating room and prayed the whole time”.

“Your life doesn’t flash before your face,” Foxx added.

“It was kind of oddly peaceful, I say this all the time; ‘I saw the tunnel. I didn’t see the light. I was in that tunnel, though’. It was hot in that tunnel.”

Foxx also said that the doctor said the medical staff “didn’t find” the origin of the brain bleed, but he was diagnosed with a stroke, and says he does not recall 20 days of his illness.

When he was first hospitalised at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta after suddenly falling ill, Foxx did not reveal any details, instead his family said in April 2023 he was recovering from a “medical complication”.