Jamie Foxx Addresses Rumors That Diddy Tried To Kill Him amid Rapper’s Sex Trafficking Trial

Jamie Foxx has finally addressed the conspiracy theory claiming that Sean “Diddy” Combs was behind the 2023 medical emergency that almost cost him his life.

Speaking at a Hollywood Reporter roundtable on Thursday, Foxx revealed that while he was hospitalized and sedated on heavy pain medications, he managed to sneak his phone and discover the rumors swirling about him.

“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.”

“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 comic joked.

“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.

While the “Django Unchained” star has shot down any conspiracy theory about Combs causing his medical emergency, it’s not the first time he’s brought it up publicly.

Foxx previously addressed the rumors that the disgraced Bad Boy Records founder tried to kill him in his 2024 Netflix stand-up special, “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.”

Jamie Foxx shared some candid and humorous insights about the conspiracy theories surrounding his 2023 medical emergency during a Hollywood Reporter roundtable.

He joked that whenever Sean “Diddy” Combs threw parties, he was always “out by 9” because “something \[didn’t] look right” as the nights dragged on, adding with a grin, “It’s slippery in here.”

Foxx clarified that his medical crisis was caused by a brain bleed, which led to a stroke and his April 2023 hospitalization. He described the ordeal as a “medical complication” following a severe headache that nearly killed him, causing him to lose 20 days of memory. He recounted waking up in a wheelchair in the hospital and being told he was “within an inch of his life” on arrival.

He also credited his sister, Deidra Dixon, for helping him get the urgent care he needed, and praised his daughter, Anelise, calling her a “spiritual defibrillator” for keeping him calm and ultimately saving his life.