Jamie Foxx Shuts Down Rumors that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs tried to kill him

The comedian revealed he discovered that people were saying 'Puffy tried to kill' him after sneaking his phone into the hospital

Jamie Foxx has publicly laughed off bizarre conspiracy theories suggesting that Sean "Diddy" Combs was responsible for his near-fatal health scare in 2023. During a recent appearance at The Hollywood Reporter’s Stand-Up Comedy Roundtable, the 57-year-old actor and comedian addressed rumors that Diddy tried to kill him—calling the speculation absurd.

Foxx, who suffered a hemorrhagic stroke and brain bleed in April 2023, recounted waking up in the hospital completely unaware of the media frenzy surrounding his condition. “I couldn’t get my mind around the fact that I had a stroke. I’m in f*****g perfect shape,” Foxx said. He explained that he secretly kept a phone with him during his recovery to see what was happening in the outside world—and that’s when he stumbled upon the wildest theory yet: “Puffy tried to kill me.”

Jamie Foxx set the record straight on the running conspiracy theory that Sean “Diddy” Combs was behind his 2023 medical emergency

Firmly dismissing the claim, Foxx said, “No, Puffy didn’t try to kill me,” then mockingly addressed another theory that had gone viral: that he had been cloned.

“When they said I was a clone, that made me flip,” Foxx joked. “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.’”

Foxx said the joke prompted his psychiatrist to ask if he was okay. He 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 psychiatrist, unfazed, calmly decided to “lower” his dosage of medication.

“The internet said Puffy was trying to kill me, that’s what the internet was saying,” Foxx told the audience. “I know what you thinking, ‘Diddy?'”

The Oscar-winning actor previously addressed the same conspiracy in his 2024 Netflix special What Had Happened Was..., where he used humor to deflect the speculation. After detailing the severity of his stroke, Foxx joked, “I say this all the time, I saw the tunnel, I didn’t see the light. It was hot in that tunnel. I thought, s**t, have I gone to the wrong place? I looked at the end of the tunnel and I thought I saw the devil saying come on… or was that Puffy?”

“I’m f*****g around, but if that was Puffy he had a flaming bottle of Johnson and… no, I’m just kidding,” he added.

Foxx revealed during the special that he had a brain bleed that led to a stroke.

Opening his set with a direct nod to the online frenzy, Foxx quipped, “The internet was trying to kill me, saying Puffy was trying to kill me. Hell no, I left those parties early. Something didn’t look right.”

He followed it up with a punchline referencing Combs’ infamous private events: “I was out by 9, n*****, something don’t look right, n*****. It looks slippery in here!”

He said doctors told his sister Deidra Dixon, “If I don’t go in his head right now, we’re going to lose him.”

Back in October 2024, amid the speculation, a source close to Diddy also denied any involvement in Foxx’s medical emergency, calling the rumors “completely false.”

As Diddy faces mounting legal troubles—including a federal sex trafficking trial currently underway—his name continues to surface in shocking and sensational stories. But Foxx has made it clear: Diddy had nothing to do with his medical crisis, and if anything, the only thing being cloned was his sense of humor.