Garcelle Beauvais was thrilled to see her good friend Jamie Foxx looking happy and healthy at his daughter’s “beautiful” wedding. It was the first time the two longtime friends had seen each other since his 2023 health scare.
“I got to give him the biggest hug,” Garcelle said of seeing her close friend again. “We held each other for so long. It was my first time seeing him, and he looked great.”
Jamie Foxx’s “medical complication” laid him low for several months
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star got up close and personal with Jamie after watching his daughter Corrine marry Joe Hooten on September 21. “She’s so happy. They’re so in love,” she told Us Weekly.
In April 2023, Corrine announced that her dad was hospitalized due to a “medical complication” while filming in Atlanta. At the time, she was grateful that “due to quick action and great care, he is already on his way to recovery.”
Details about the Oscar winner were kept private during his month-long stay in the hospital. Nevertheless, his many celebrity friends, including Garcelle, sent well wishes for a speedy recovery.
“J, I love you so much!!! I want & need you to get better soon [praying hands] sending you light love and prayers,” Garcelle wrote at the time, sharing a photo of the two of them.
In August 2023, Jamie assured his fans that he was on the mend. “It’s been an unexpected dark journey, but I can see the light,” he wrote on Instagram. “I’m thankful to everyone that reached out and sent well wishes and prayers.”
Though Jamie never disclosed the nature of his illness, he plans to discuss it in his upcoming stand-up show, “What Had Happened Was.” He resumed filming in January 2024.
Garcelle and Jamie’s friendship goes back almost 30 years
For years, Jamie joked about his flirty relationship with Garcelle. They first worked together on the Jamie Foxx Show from 1996 to 2001. Then they reunited for the 2013 film White House Down.
During a September 2020 episode of her Going to Bed with Garcelle podcast, she joked with Jamie that he never gave any of her potential boyfriends “any real attention.”
“I hate them all,” Jamie playfully responded. “I think me and you should have been together. So every time I see them, I’m like, ‘Damn. I f*cked up.’”
For her part, Garcelle was married twice, first to Daniel Saunders (1991-2000) and later to Michael Nilon (2001-2011). She has three sons, Oliver (with Saunders) and 16-year-old twins Jax and Jaid (with Nilon).
“It’s tough,” she says now of dating. “People feel like they’re disposable now, and you can swipe left and right. I mean, it’s just a different time.”
Though she has no plans to find love on a dating show, she hasn’t totally ruled it out. “I don’t know if I want to do my personal life on television,” she shared. “If I meet someone, and I’m still on Real Housewives, sure. But to actually go and do that, I don’t think so.”
But on second thought, the Black Girl Missing star and executive producer Garcelle joked, “Maybe Love Is Blind, if they did a celebrity version.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is now streaming on Peacock.
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