Jamie Foxx is letting the world in on his months-long medical scare — though opening up wasn’t easy.

While speaking to Gayle King of CBS Mornings in a video she posted on Instagram, Foxx shared how he felt following his three-night special What Had Happened Was, which he first announced back in September.

“It was an excruciating time,” he admitted, “to be able to open those wounds every single day for three nights. It was excruciating because the worry is what gets you,” per Entertainment Weekly.

In his September update, Foxx had said the special, which was filmed in Atlanta this past weekend, would allow him to “share his journey through a serious health scare, filled with humor, heart, and inspiration.” As noted in King’s post on Monday (Oct. 7), the special was shot for Netflix.

Explaining that they “got a great show in the room,” Foxx claimed that they “don’t know what they may laugh or what they may not laugh at.”

“Any comedian will tell you that’s the thing, the worry is the thing,” he added. “Usually, when you do a stand-up special, you go out for a year and a half and work every little nook and cranny, and then you tape it. You don’t just show up in Atlanta and turn the camera on.”

In King’s video, she highlighted that she’d “never seen a show where we’re laughing and crying at the same time,” gushing that “only [Foxx] could’ve done that.” Foxx deemed it “a personal journey,” noting that he’s “never going to go through this again.”

“My next jokes will start out, ‘Knock, knock.’ I’ll do an hour and a half of ‘knock, knock’ jokes,” he quipped, eliciting laughter from his crew.

He proceeded to thank those around him, raising his glass to “a great, great show.”

“Let’s put it away,” he continued. “Let’s sit back, watch it, and build toward a newer, brighter and healthier future.”

In April 2023, Foxx was hospitalized with an undisclosed medical complication. He broke his silence on the subject in July 2023, saying that he “went to hell and back.” Via an August 2023 Instagram post, he claimed he was “finally startin[g] to feel like [him]self.”