Jamie Foxx has addressed the bizarre conspiracy theory that Sean “Diddy” Combs once “tried to kill him”.
In April 2023, the Django Unchained actor, 57, had emergency surgery and was in hospital for several weeks after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke and a brain bleed.
He revealed he “snuck” his phone into the ward because he wanted to know “what the outside world was saying” - which was when he stumbled upon the rumours that Combs was behind his hospitalization.
“No, Puffy didn’t try to kill me,” he firmly stated at The Hollywood Reporter’s Stand-Up Comedy Roundtable.
Foxx made the assertion amid music mogul Combs’ sex trafficking trial in New York, which is expected to last two months.
The Hollywood star also reflected on the abnormal theories that he was a “clone”.
He recalled: “When they [conspiracy theorists] said I was a clone, that made me flip. I’m sitting in the hospital bed, like, ‘These b***-a** mother******s 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.’”
He revealed his joke prompted a psychiatrist to ask: “Are you all right?”
Foxx 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.”
The Dreamgirls actor then recounted how his psychiatrist “calmly” decided to lower the dosage of his medication.
Foxx previously took a swipe at the Combs murder conspiracy during his Netflix special, What Had Happened Was..., which aired last year.
He began his stand-up set by saying: “The internet was trying to kill me, saying Puffy was trying to kill me. I know what you're thinking… Did he?!”
The rapper then referred to Combs’ “freak off” sex parties at his house, saying: “Hell, no, I left them parties early. I was out by 9, n*****, something don't look right, n*****. It looks slippery in here!”
Combs’ ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, spoke out about the alleged parties when she took the witness stand at his sex trafficking trial.
She said she was barely 22 when Combs first asked her to take part in the “freak offs”, which were the highly orchestrated sex parties which she said stemmed from Combs' interest in voyeurism.
They would entail hiring an escort and "setting up this experience so that I could perform for Sean," Cassie said.
The jury was told he forced women into drug-fuelled parties which lasted for days and violently attacked those who tried not to take part.
A video of Comb assaulting the singer by throwing her around like a “rag doll” in a hotel corridor on the first day of the trial.
