A Heartbreaking Look At Jamie Foxx's Relationship With His Parents

Living without your parents can be traumatic, but living with them as an adult can be.....challenging. Jamie Foxx suffered the former as a child but chose the latter as a grown-up. According to Daily Mail, not only do Jamie's folks live with him in his home, but they've also been divorced for 25 years. Luckily, it's safe to assume they aren't all crammed into a tiny dingbat somewhere.

Hopefully, his parents will be able to help Jamie recuperate from his recent sudden hospitalization scare. Per TMZ, he was rushed to the ER on April 11 following a "medical emergency." On May 4, Jamie spoke out for the first time since his concerning hospitalization. Well, sort of. "Appreciate all the love!!! Feeling blessed," he posted on Instagram, along with prayer hands, heart, and fox emojis. Jamie had been in the hospital for three weeks at that point, so fans were increasingly concerned about his well-being.

However, a week later, fears were laid to rest after Jamie's daughter, Corinne Foxx, squashed all the speculation about her father's health with a positive update. "Update from the family: Sad to see how the media runs wild. My dad has been out of the hospital for weeks, recuperating," she posted on Instagram stories. "In fact, he was playing pickleball yesterday!" Well, anything to get out of the house, probably. Because it hasn't always been happy families for the recently reunited trio — Jamie Foxx's relationship with his parents while he was a kid was pretty heartbreaking.

Jamie Foxx's family relations are a complex affair. The Daily Mail reports that Foxx, born Eric Bishop, was abandoned by his birth parents — Darrell Bishop, who goes by Shahid Abdula since converting to Islam, and Louise Bishop — when he was seven months old. Louise gave him to her adoptive parents, Estelle and Mark Talley, and wasn't involved in his upbringing.

Foxx viewed his grandparents, who both passed away, as his parents, but feelings of abandonment continue to haunt him. "I still ask myself why they didn't want me," he told the Mail. "Maybe they weren't ready to raise a child. Was it too inconvenient? I lived just up the street from them. I'll never understand it because I know how great it feels to have a child love you back."

According to the Washington Post, when Foxx won his best actor Oscar for "Ray," he credited his grandmother. During his acceptance speech, Foxx thanked her for raising him to be a "good southern gentleman" and said that Estelle was still there for him, despite being dead. "When I act like a fool, she beat me. She whupped me," Foxx said. "Now she talks to me in my dreams. I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we got a lot to talk about. I love you." The actor also paid tribute to his gramma in May 2022. "The reason I exist, Happy birthday Estelle Marie Tally," he captioned an old photo of them.

Despite Jamie Foxx's heartbreaking relationship with his birth parents as a child and their fractured relationship, the three are now making up for lost time. Foxx told Graham Norton how his dad's incarceration ultimately resulted in Abdula becoming his roommate. "They put my father in jail for $25 worth of illegal substances. They put him in jail for seven years," Foxx said on "The Graham Norton Show," adding: "This man was an educator in the hood in the inner cities educating kids."

After Foxx made it big, he wrote to his dad, saying, "When you get out, I save your life." Abdula is still living with him, 20 years on. He said his mom arrived a few years later. "I would always send her tickets on Christmas if you ever want to come, you know, for Christmas," Foxx said. "So finally, she accepted. She come, we have a good Christmas, and then New Year's comes and her birthday is on New Year's, so we party for her birthday, and then it's like...."

Basically, she's still living with him 12 years later. Per Daily Mail, they reside at Foxx's "$10.5 million bachelor pad in Hidden Valley." So there's plenty of room for the divorcees to avoid each other, especially when Abdula brings back the ladies. "They live under the same roof, and what's crazy is that he still dates, so he has dates, but she'll go on his side of the house just to see who's in there," Foxx added.