Jamie Foxx won’t forget the wild rumors that once surrounded his health scare.
“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,” Foxx, 57, shared with The Hollywood Reporter in a roundtable interview published Thursday, May 22. “I’m in f***ing perfect shape. [I see things like,] ‘Puffy tried to kill me.’ No, Puffy didn’t try to kill me.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Diddy’s team for additional comment. (The rap mogul’s team has long maintained the rumor was entirely false and unfounded.)
That wasn’t the only crazy — and false — rumor that spread online during Foxx’s hospitalization.
“When they said I was a clone, that made me flip,” Foxx said in his latest interview. “I’m sitting in the hospital bed, like, ‘These bitch-ass motherf***ers are trying to clone me.’ And then I saw me walk into my room, but I’m white, so I see the white me.”
After Foxx shared his theory that hospital staff were trying to clone him, one psychiatrist asked if the actor was alright.
“I say, ‘Am I alright or am I all-white? I saw you trying to get the white motherf***ing Jamie Foxx and it ain’t going to happen,’” Foxx recalled. “[The doctor] just calmly goes, ‘I think we’re going to lower your dosage.’”
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In December 2024, Foxx opened up about his past hospitalization during Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was.
In the Netflix comedy special, the actor said he experienced a bad headache in April 2023. The symptoms later led to a brain bleed, which led to a stroke.
In a rare public appearance at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards, Foxx shined a light on how his health scare transformed his outlook on life.
Jamie Foxx got his start in sketch comedy before becoming an Oscar-winning actor. Foxx began playing the piano at a young age, going on to perform and lead the choir at New Hope Baptist Church in his hometown of Terrell, Texas. As a teenager, he excelled in basketball and football before choosing to study musical […]
“You know how you take a picture on your cell phone and you hit that first filter and it brightens up? That’s the way life looks now. Everything is altered,” Foxx shared with E! News. “When it actually happens to you, you appreciate it more, I appreciate these moments more.”
Throughout his recovery, Foxx tried to remain largely tight-lipped about the specifics of his health scare. In July 2023, however, the actor made a rare statement to clarify some of the rumors surrounding his condition.
“You know, by being quiet, sometimes things get out of hand, people saying what I got [and] some people said I was blind, but as you can see the eyes are working. The eyes are working just fine!” he said in an Instagram video. “They said I was paralyzed, I’m not paralyzed, but I went to hell and back, and my road to recovery had some potholes as well. I’m coming back and I’m able to work.”
