Jamie Foxx praised his sister and thanked her following his hospitalization for a mystery medical emergency.

In an Instagram post , the Oscar-winning actor wished his younger sister, Deidra Dixon, a happy birthday and thanked her for helping him while and after he was hospitalized last spring.

“Happy birthday to my beautiful for sister @frequency11 ‘D’… you are magical you are beautiful you are the courageous lionesses #leoseason” Foxx captioned a gallery of photos of Dixon. “And without you I would not be here.

“Had you not made the decisions that you made I would’ve lost my life,” he added. I love you forever and ever happy birthday sis.”

The birthday message is the first public comment from Foxx since a three-minute video he posted in July where Foxx said he was healing after the life-threatening ordeal while still withholding specifics of what exactly happened.

“I went through something that I thought I would never ever go through,” he said. “I went to hell and back. And my road to recovery had some potholes as well. But I’m coming back.”

The “Miami Vice” and “Django Unchanged” star went into why he’s held that information close to the vest, saying, “to be honest with you, I just didn’t want you to see me like that.”

“I want you to see me laughing, having a good time, partying, cracking a joke, doing a movie [or a] television show,” he said. “I didn’t want you to see me with tubes running out of me and trying to figure out if I was gonna make it through.”

“I cannot tell you how great it feels to have your family kick in in such a way — and y’all know they kept it airtight, they didn’t let nothin’ out,” he said, crediting Dixon and daughter Corinne Foxx.

“I’m here on Earth because of some great people. I’m here on Earth because of God, man. I’m on my way back.”

Earlier in July, a source close to Foxx said he was still recovering after leaving the hospital in May and attending outpatient rehab in Chicago.

Foxx’s newest film “Strays” will be released later this month.

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TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, announced Wednesday that they are separating after 18 years of marriage.

The two said in statements posted on Instagram that they made the decision after “many meaningful and difficult conversations.” A statement from the prime minister's office said they both have signed a legal separation agreement.

Trudeau, the 51-year-old scion of one of Canada’s most famous politicians, was sworn into office in 2015. Sophie Trudeau is a former model and TV host. The couple were married in 2005. Together, they brought star power to the prime minister's office and appeared in the pages of Vogue magazine.

They have three children, 15-year-old Xavier, 14-year-old Ella-Grace and 9-year-old Hadrien.

“As always, we remain a close family with deep love and respect for each other and for everything we have built and will continue to build,” the two said on Instagram.

An official familiar with the matter said the children he will continue to live at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, where he has lived since 2015, and the children will primarily live there to maintain stability.

The official said she has moved to a separate Ottawa home, but will spend time at Rideau Cottage at times including when he is travelling. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

She has played a less visible role in recent years, rarely traveling with the prime minister on official trips. The two were seen together publicly at Canada Day events in Ottawa last month.

“They remain a close family, and Sophie and the prime minister are focused on raising their kids in a safe, loving and collaborative environment,” the statement from Trudeau's office said. "The family will be together on vacation, beginning next week.”

His office requested respect for their privacy.

Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire met as children when she was a classmate of his youngest brother, Michel, and they reconnected as adults when they co-hosted a 2003 charity gala.

Trudeau is the second prime minister to announce a separation while in office.

His father, Pierre Trudeau, and mother, Margaret Trudeau, separated in 1979 and divorced in 1984 during the elder Trudeau's final year in the prime minister's office.

Margaret Trudeau wrote in her memoir that she had a romance with Senator Ted Kennedy. During a 1977 visit to Washington, D.C. with Pierre, she sat listening to her husband’s speech before Congress while feeling “torn between an intense need for him and a longing for Ted Kennedy.” Margaret wrote she became infatuated with Kennedy after meeting him a few years earlier. She told Kennedy that he “had not destroyed my marriage but that I had used him to help me destroy a marriage that was already over.”

Just weeks later Margaret, who had then-undiagnosed mental illness, left her husband to party with the Rolling Stones in Toronto. The marriage ended soon after that.

Justin, who was a child when his parents separated, wrote in his 2014 book “Common Ground” that public life took its toll. “I knew, even then, that the demands imposed by the life my parents were leading affected them far more than the ordinary stress of parenthood," he wrote.

Justin Trudeau channeled the star power of his Liberal icon father when he first won office in 2015 . Scandals, voter fatigue and economic inflation have taken a toll on his popularity after eight years in power.

Just a few months ago Trudeau posted a picture of himself holding hands with his wife on their anniversary and wrote, “Every mile of this journey together is an adventure. I love you, Soph. Happy anniversary!”

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HGTV star Christina Hall promises not to judge your home if you invite her over.

“There's literally zero judgment," the TV personality said during a recent interview. “Unless you live in a hoarder house or it's real gross or dirty, I'm not going to care. I've lived in different types of houses and places and situations.”

As the star of two shows on the network, “Christina on the Coast” and “Christina in the Country," Hall has a talent for looking at a floorplan and picturing what could be changed to make a space more functional.

She enjoys renovating homes more than choosing decor or staging for prospective buyers.

“I like doing the big projects,” Hall explained. “I like taking down the walls and I like figuring out floor plans and how to make something more functional. I love choosing kitchen material, but I don’t love choosing furniture.”

Hall began her professional career in real estate, where she met her now ex-husband Tarek El Moussa. After spending a few years flipping houses, they got their own HGTV series “Flip or Flop,” showing the process of buying, improving and selling a home for profit. The two divorced in 2018 but continued to work together until 2022 when “Flip or Flop” aired its final episode after 10 seasons.

Hall first's solo TV venture was “Christina on the Coast,” now airing its fourth season. On the show, Hall balances solo projects with her home life in Newport Beach, California. She's a mother of three and is remarried to Josh Hall, a realtor and former police officer.

Her husband is featured on the shows and Hall says, “I think his answer would be it took a minute” to get comfortable on camera. “I feel like it might be weird to be thrown in with me because it comes naturally and I've been doing it for a long time.” He looks back at old episodes and is like, ‘Oh, gosh’ and cringing."

The Halls also have a vacation home in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. The TV personality says there's “a misconception” that she spends more time there than she actually does.

When she takes her kids to Tennessee, it's a getaway. “When we go there, we mostly cook at home, have quiet time and we'll be on our property," said Hall.

It also serves as the backdrop for “Christina in the Country." While filming in Tennessee, “We’re packing it in,” explained Hall. "We go next week and we’re filming six straight days, we’re filming very long days, doing six houses. Then there’s something called B stories and it’s a background story of the show. Those are long days and I’m not going to lie, when I get back home I'm wiped out. My schedule in California is a bit easier.”

Both “Christina” shows have been renewed for new seasons. Hall has also considered expanding her work to encompass a “Christina Coast to Coast- type show" because, "we can go anywhere" but hesitates from thinking too much about it because she's busy as is.

“Logistically, why it works in Tennessee is because we have a home there. We have clothes there. I don’t pack. We just go," she said.

Hall says a challenge of her job is “everyone wants the same look, especially in California."

“Houses have certain architecture,” she explains. “Unless you're re-doing the architecture, you can't have a midcentury modern house and then inside make it a farmhouse.”

She's also noticed a difference in aesthetics working on her two shows. “'Country' is more feminine overall, more wallpapers, textures, a bit more glam. For 'Coast,' I see more industrial and more modern,” she adds that men seem more interested in the design in her California show while the women take the lead on home decisions in Tennessee.

For downtime, the self-professed “extroverted introvert” enjoys reading mystery thrillers and watches TV shows like “Beef” and “Righteous Gemstones” with Josh. She also likes to watch lighter fare including “Ginny & Georgia” and “Firefly Lane" on her own.

She says she does get recognized a lot and for the most part “people are respectful" but public encounters can be awkward. "Airports are where you catch people taking videos of you and they're not very sly about it. Or they Google you right in front of you. Your face is on their phone, and they say, ‘Is this you?’" Hall also says people have sat down at her booth in restaurants and started a conversation. “That's a little weird,” she said.

Her kids are accustomed to camera crews and not shy. She says her son Braeden recently asked to watch all his scenes in “Christina in the Country." “He was laughing at himself because he's such a ham.” He asked why he isn't on the show more and she says she tries not to overdo it. “I try to keep him to short days and doing fun things. The last thing I want is for them to say, ‘I don’t want to do this.'”