Jamie Foxx is setting the file straight.
In his new Netflix comedy particular “Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…,” the 56-year-old addressed the net conspiracies that his near-death medical emergency was linked to Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Speaking in regards to the April 2023 well being scare, Foxx revealed that he had a “brain bleed that led to a stroke” and he didn’t “remember” 20 days of his life.
Foxx famous that some individuals alleged that Combs, 55, “was trying to kill me.”
The web chatter expanded after Joe Rogan amplified the claims on a November episode of his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
“The internet said Puffy was trying to kill me, that’s what the internet was saying. I know what you thinking, ‘Diddy?’” Foxx joked, including, “Hell no, I left them parties early. I was out by 9, something don’t look right. It’s slippery in here.”
“Your life doesn’t flash before your face. It was kind of oddly peaceful. I saw the tunnel. I didn’t see the light. I was in that tunnel, though. It was hot in that tunnel,” the Oscar winner went on about his well being scare. “S—, am I going to the wrong place in this mother——?”
“Because I looked at the end of the tunnel, and I thought I saw the devil like, ‘Come on.’ Or is that Puffy [Sean Combs]? I’m f——ng around.”
Combs is at present in federal custody in New York Metropolis following his September indictment on fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
Prosecutors additionally mentioned authorities discovered “freak off supplies,” together with medicine and over 1,000 bottles of child oil and lubricant once they raided Combs’ houses in Los Angeles and Miami again in March.
Later in his set, Foxx joked: “If it was Puffy, he had a flaming bottle of Johnson &… I’m just kidding.”
Combs pleaded not responsible and his trial is ready for Could 2025.
Nevertheless, the musician was as soon as once more denied bail in his intercourse trafficking case final month — his third failed try and be free of lockup forward of Thanksgiving.
Manhattan federal court docket Decide Arun Subramanian mentioned in a ruling, “The Court finds that the government has shown by clear and convincing evidence that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the safety of the community.”
Combs had requested to be launched on $50 million bond, together with house confinement with 24/7 safety.
Foxx and Combs have been photographed collectively at a number of occasions over time. “The Burial” actor was even one of many audio system who honored the artist at his Hollywood Stroll of Fame induction in Could 2008.
Different conspiracies that floated round throughout Foxx’s hospitalization had been that he was cloned or changed with A.I. after he spoke out for the primary time three months after his medical emergency.
Ice-T slammed the “weirdos” behind that conspiracy, writing on X in July 2023, “People would rather believe that Jamie is now a Clone or Ai, than the man was just seriously sick and damn near died… Cause he doesn’t look EXACTLY the same??? YOU look different after a bad cold!”
After Foxx filmed his Netflix particular in Atlanta in October, he took to Instagram to thank his supporters.
“God is good… As I post these pictures, my heart and my soul is filled with nothing but pure joy…on October 3 fourth and fifth I had an opportunity to tell my side of the story and there was no better place than Atlanta Georgia,” he captioned his submit. “I have to thank you Atlanta you showed up and you showed out, I haven’t been on stage in 18 years but I needed the stage and I needed an audience that was made up of nothing but pure love and that’s what you were.”
“When people ask me is this a stand-up comedy show I say no it’s an artistic explanation. Of some thing that went terribly wrong, but thanks to the great people in Atlanta especially piedmont hospital you enabled me to come back and be on stage and do what I love to do the most… #nobaddays as my guy James would say #secondchance.”
“Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…” is now streaming on Netflix.
