Jamie Foxx has rubbished a wild conspiracy theory involving Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
The 57-year-old actor has officially debunked bizarre rumours that Combs – who is currently on trial for sex trafficking and assault, which he has denied – tried to kill him in 2023.
Two years ago, Foxx was hospitalised for several weeks after suffering a haemorrhagic stroke and bleed on the brain.
During The Hollywood Reporter’s Stand-Up Comedy Roundtable, the actor admitted he ‘stuck in’ his phone to try and keep up with ‘what the outside world was saying’.
He added: ‘I couldn’t get my mind around the fact that I had a stroke. I’m in f*****g perfect shape.’ He ended up seeing wild allegations that ‘Puffy tried to kill’ him, as well as speculation he himself was a ‘clone’.
‘No, Puffy didn’t try to kill me,’ he said. He added: ‘When they [conspiracy theorists] said I was a clone, that made me flip. I’m sitting in the hospital bed, like, “These b***h-a** mothers are trying to clone me.”
‘And then I saw me walk into my room, but I’m white, so I see the white me. 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.” ‘
Foxx said a psychiatrist responded to his joke by asking: ‘Are you all right?’ He replied: ‘Am I all right or am I all white? I saw you trying to get the white motherf*****g Jamie Foxx and it ain’t going to happen.’
He quipped that the psychiatrist then ‘calmly’ decided to ‘lower’ the star’s medication dosage.
Combs is currently in court in New York over charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution – he has denied all allegations against him.
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In Foxx’s Netflix special last year – What Had Happened Was… – he took some digs at Combs as he reflected on his health scare.
He joked: ‘It was hot in that tunnel. I thought, s**t, have I gone to the wrong place? I looked at the end of the tunnel and I thought I saw the devil saying come on… or was that Puffy?
‘I’m f*****g around, but if that was Puffy he had a flaming bottle of Johnson and… no, I’m just kidding.’
He also reference the conspiracy theory, while making a joke about Combs’ freak-off parties.
‘The internet was trying to kill me, saying Puffy was trying to kill me. Hell no, I left those parties early. Something didn’t look right,’ he said. ‘The internet was trying to kill me. The internet was saying that Puffy was trying to kill me. I know what you’re thinking… Did he?! Hell no.’
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