Jamie Foxx on rescuing driver from crash: 'I don't look at it as heroic'

Jan 20, 2016

On Monday, Jamie Foxx made headlines when he pulled a man out of a fiery car crash, but when Foxx was asked about the heroic deeds, he tried to downplay his actions.

“I don’t look at it as heroic, I look at it, like, you just had to do something and it all just worked out,” Foxx said during a press conference outside his home. The father of the man he rescued was also present at the press conference.

The driver, 32-year-old Brett Kyle, reportedly ran off the road and hit a ditch, and his pickup truck went rolling multiple times before it eventually caught fire. Foxx and another passerby rushed to get Kyle out of his seatbelt and away from the crash.

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“I told [Kyle] as we were talking, I said, ‘Listen,’ as I’m getting him out, ‘You gotta help me get you out ’cause I don’t want to have to leave you,'” Foxx recalled. “I said, ‘You got angels around you. You have angels around you.’ I kept saying this.”

Foxx also praised the other passerby, Christian, for his actions.

“I said [to Christian], ‘That’s God doing something right now,'” he said. “We’ll sit up one day and have some waters and talk about it.”