BY ODIGIE OKPATAKU
Jamie Foxx has broken his silence on the conspiracy theory alleging Sean “Diddy” Combs orchestrated the 2023 medical emergency that nearly took his life.
The American actor said that while in the hospital, sedated on a cocktail of pain medications, he was able to sneak his phone and find out what the world was saying about him, he told a Hollywood Reporter roundtable on Thursday.
“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 perfect shape. [I see things like,] ‘Puffy tried to kill me,’” Foxx, 57, recalled.
He detailed the “medical complication” that nearly killed him and caused him to lose 20 days of memory after a “bad headache,” before waking up in a wheelchair in the hospital, where doctors told him he was “within an inch of his life” when he first arrived.
The Grammy winner credited his sister Deidra Dixon with getting him the help he needed, as well as his daughter Anelise for saving his life by keeping him calm as a “spiritual defibrillator.”