Stevie Marvel took a second at a latest live performance to deal with the persistent rumor that he's not truly blind.
“I need to say to all of you, one thing that I used to be pondering, ‘When did I need to let the world know this?' However I wished to say it proper now,” Marvel, 75, started during a recent concert in Cardiff, Wales. “You realize there have been rumors about me seeing and all that? However significantly, you realize the reality.”
He went on to share the story of how he misplaced his imaginative and prescient, saying, “Fact is, shortly after my beginning, I grew to become blind. Now, that was a blessing as a result of it's allowed me to see the world within the imaginative and prescient of reality, of sight. See folks within the spirit of them, not how they give the impression of being. Not what colour they're, however what colour is their spirit?”
Marvel, who started performing as a baby, has confronted rumors about his blindness for many years, with celebrities and web observers alike claiming that he can truly see. In 2016, comic Anthony Anderson stated he as soon as challenged Marvel to a basketball sport, joking to Stephen Colbert, “What y'all don't know is, Stevie can see. It's simply an act.”
Shaquille O'Neal, in the meantime, informed a narrative in 2019 about Marvel allegedly recognizing him in an elevator. “I went and referred to as each particular person I knew and informed them the story, they usually didn't consider it,” the previous NBA star, 53, recalled.
Marvel has additionally been identified to make jokes about his sight himself, as he did final month whereas presenting Jamie Foxx with the Final Icon Award on the 2025 BET Awards. Throughout his speech, Marvel stated he went “approach again” with Foxx, 57, who referred to as him after he gained an Oscar for enjoying Ray Charles within the 2004 biopic Ray.
“He hit me up due to his win — Academy Award — for Ray,” Marvel quipped. “And I stated, ‘You realize, Jamie, simply since you play a blind man that don't imply that we're besties, OK?'”
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Later within the speech, Marvel joked about Foxx's “love — for blind folks” earlier than including, “I'm very joyful to be right here tonight to see you honored as you so very effectively deserve.”
Marvel opened up about shedding his imaginative and prescient final yr within the Marvel of Stevie audiobook collection, recalling that his mom, Lula Mae Hardaway, cried “each night time” after he misplaced his sight.
Ultimately, he informed her, “Mama, you shouldn't cry, you're making my head harm. And I stated, ‘Perhaps God has one thing for me that's larger than all this.' Historical past proved that true.”
