Jamie Foxx has damaged his silence on the conspiracy concept alleging Sean “Diddy” Combs orchestrated the 2023 medical emergency that had him “within an inch of his life.”
The “Ray” actor stated that whereas within the hospital, sedated on a cocktail of ache drugs, he was capable of sneak his cellphone and discover out what the world was saying about him, he advised a Hollywood Reporter roundtable Thursday.
“I didn’t know what the outside world was saying and I couldn’t get my mind around the fact that I had a stroke. I’m in f–king perfect shape. [I see things like,] ‘Puffy tried to kill me,’” Foxx, 57, recalled.
“No, Puffy didn’t try to kill me.”
Nevertheless, what prompted him to “flip” out was when he learn the conspiracy concept that he was cloned.
“When they said I was a clone, that made me flip. I’m sitting in the hospital bed, like, ‘These bitch-ass motherf–kers are trying to clone me,’” the comedian joked.
Even whereas closely medicated and nonetheless attempting to determine what prompted his medical emergency, the Oscar-winning actor didn’t miss a beat, utilizing his comedic chops to loosen up the scenario.
“The next morning, I said, ‘I know what’s up, you’re trying to clone me and make me white so I’ll sell better overseas.’ The psychiatrist says, ‘Are you all right?’ And I say, ‘Am I all right or am I all white? I saw you trying to get the white motherf–king Jamie Foxx and it ain’t going to happen.’ He just calmly goes, ‘I think we’re going to lower your dosage,’” Foxx quipped.
Whereas the “Django Unchained” star has shot down any conspiracy concept about Combs inflicting his medical emergency, it’s not the primary time he’s introduced it up publicly.
Foxx beforehand addressed the rumors that the disgraced Unhealthy Boy Data founder tried to kill him in his 2024 Netflix stand-up particular, “What Had Happened Was.”
“The internet said Puffy was trying to kill me, that’s what the internet was saying. I know what you thinking, ‘Diddy?’” Foxx joked on stage.
“Hell no, I left them parties early.”
The beloved comedian advised the viewers that he all the time was “out by 9” every time Combs threw a celebration — sharing that “something [didn’t] look right” because the evenings would get later.
Foxx quipped, “It’s slippery in here.”
Combs, who was arrested in September 2024 and is presently on trial for intercourse trafficking and racketeering, is alleged to have had wild intercourse performances dubbed “Freak-Offs” at his events over time.
He faces life in jail if convicted.
In his comedy particular, Foxx stated a mind bleed prompted him to have a stroke, which led to his April 2023 hospitalization.
He detailed the “medical complication” that just about killed him and prompted him to lose 20 days of reminiscence after a “bad headache,” earlier than waking up in a wheelchair within the hospital, the place medical doctors advised him he was “within an inch of his life” when he first arrived.
The Grammy winner credited his sister Deidra Dixon with getting him the assistance he wanted, in addition to his daughter Anelise for saving his life by protecting him calm as a “spiritual defibrillator.”
