Jamie Foxx set the record straight on the operating conspiracy idea that Sean “Diddy” Combs was behind his 2023 medical emergency.
“… I snuck in my phone because 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–kng perfect shape,” Foxx recalled of his time in the hospital throughout a Hollywood Reporter roundtable printed Thursday.
“[I see things like,] ‘Puffy tried to kill me.’ No, Puffy didn’t try to kill me,” the actor acknowledged.
However, the Oscar winner appeared to be extra upset about one other rumor claiming 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,’” he joked.
The “Django Unchained” star, 57, beforehand touched on the conspiracy idea about Combs following the disgraced music mogul’s September 2024 arrest.
Foxx poked enjoyable at the Bad Boy Records founder — who’s currently on trial for intercourse trafficking and racketeering — in addition to his personal life-threatening well being scare in his Netflix stand-up particular, “What Had Happened Was,” which premiered that December.
“The internet said Puffy was trying to kill me, that’s what the internet was saying,” Foxx instructed the viewers. “I do know what you pondering, ‘Diddy?’
“Hell no, I left them parties early,” he continued, referencing Combs’ infamous bashes.
Foxx quipped that he was at all times “out by 9” since “something [didn’t] look right” at the rapper’s soirées, which allegedly led to wild sex performances dubbed “Freak-Offs.”
In his comedy particular, Foxx revealed his medical emergency was due to a brain bleed that led to a stroke. The actor had initially attributed his hospitalization to a “bad headache.”
The comic stated docs instructed his sister Deidra Dixon, “If I don’t go in his head right now, we’re going to lose him.’”
After his surgical procedure, Dixon was instructed, “We didn’t find where it was coming from, but he is having a stroke. He may be able to make a full recovery but it’s going to be the worst year of his life.”
