Jamie Foxx has addressed the conspiracy theory that Diddy was responsible for his medical emergency in 2023.
In a chat with fellow comedians Hasan Minhaj, Chelsea Handler, Roy Wood Jr., Seth Meyers, and Sarah Silverman for The Hollywood Reporter, Foxx opened up about his time in the hospital and said he was often cracking jokes to keep up his spirits. "I was doing so many jokes in the hospital," he said. "That's the only way I could get through it. I'm a comic, so even when I was heavily sedated, and they gave me OxyContin, Dilantin, and morphine at the same time..."
Minhaj interjected to say that Foxx was given "that Sackler special," and he recalled that he was given a lot of drugs to help with his pain.
"They Men in Black-ed me, and I'm fucked up, and this isn't funny, but 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," he continued. "I'm in perfect fucking shape. [I see things like,] 'Puffy tried to kill me.' 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 motherfuckers are trying to clone me."
He also revealed that he once confronted one of his caregivers about the clone conspiracy theory.
"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 said. "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 motherfucking Jamie Foxx and it ain’t going to happen.' He just calmly goes, 'I think we’re going to lower your dosage.'"
Wood asked Foxx if he legitimately just read a conspiracy theory about him and believed it. "Wait you read your conspiracy theory and you said, 'Yes'?!" Wood asked. "Bro, I was on another planet," Foxx replied.
In April 2023, Foxx was hospitalized for an unidentified medical emergency. He was released from the hospital the following month and mostly kept a low profile, but spoke more at length about his health scare, which he later confirmed to be a stroke, in his emotional Netflix special, What Had Happened Was. During that special, he also took a moment to make light of Diddy and the allegations he's facing.
“I saw the tunnel. I didn’t see the light,” Foxx said. “I was in that tunnel though. It was hot in that tunnel. Shit, am I goin’ to the wrong place in this motherfucker? Because I looked at the end of the tunnel and I thought I saw the devil-like, ‘Come on, n***a.’ Or is that Puffy? I'm fucking around. But if it was Puffy, he had, like, a flaming bottle of Johnson... Naw, I'm just kidding."