Queen Latifah recently showered praise on popular Hollywood actor Jamie Foxx.
Foxx experienced a medical complication on April 11 while filming the Netflix movie Back in Action in Atlanta. His daughter Corinne had shared at the time that “due to quick action and great care,” Foxx was “on his way to recovery” at that point.
Latifah recently spoke to Entertainment Tonight and it seems that she is “praying hard” for 55-year-old Foxx’s recovery following the actor’s April medical emergency.
Latifah called Foxx, with whom she appeared in the 2010 movie Valentine’s Day, “one of the nicest people that you’ve ever met.”
“He is secretly behind so many people’s success in music, in Hollywood,” Latifah said. “Jamie is a unicorn, and if you aired a whole show on him you’d be surprised how many people had been put on because they came by Jamie’s house and they invited him over to play piano or make some beats or make some music.”
“I hear so many kind stories about people who tour with him and how he treated them so respectfully and made sure they were all taken care of,” she added.
Latifah said she has marveled at Foxx’s energy and passion for performing in the past.
“I don’t know how he found the energy to do that after parties, after the shows, but I sure partied with him a couple times ’cause he’d be on the mic and singing,” she told ET. “I’d be like, ‘You just did a whole two-hour show and you still at the club doing another [one]!’ ”
Latifah added, “So he’s really the genuine article, and I just wish him nothing but the best.”
