As Diddy is currently undergoing trial for sex trafficking and racketeering in New York City, conspiracy theories of his alleged activities with other celebrities have run rampant. Jamie Foxx made it a point to dispel one that claimed the mogul tried to kill him, resulting in the medical emergency he had a couple of years ago. The Oscar-winning actor addressed it during a roundtable for The Hollywood Reporter which was published on Thursday (May 22).
During the roundtable, Foxx spoke about dealing with rejection as he was recovering from a stroke and seeing the chatter online. “[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. I’m in fucking perfect shape. [I see things like,] “Puffy tried to kill me.” No, Puffy didn’t try to kill me,” he said.
He wasn’t as upset about that as he was about a conspiracy theory that said he was being cloned. “When they said I was a clone, that made me flip. I’m sitting in the hospital bed, like, ‘These b—h-ass motherf–—s are trying to clone me,’” he joked, adding: 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.”
Foxx has already poked fun of the disgraced Bad Boy Records founder in his Netflix comedy special, What Had Happened Was, which premiered last December. “The internet said Puffy was trying to kill me, that’s what the internet was saying,” Foxx said to the audience. “I know what you thinking, ‘Diddy?’ Hell no, I left them parties early.” He’d go on to joke that he would make sure to be “out by 9” since “something [didn’t] look right” at Diddy’s parties which have been alleged to have turned into debaucherous sex parties called “Freak Offs”.
The trial, which is currently in its second week, has already seen explosive testimony from Diddy’s former partner, Cassie Ventura as well as singer Dawn Richard. Rapper and actor Kid Cudi has been on the witness stand for the last few days, testifying about Diddy allegedly destroying his car with a Molotov cocktail in retaliation for him dating Ventura.