Jamie Foxx dragged Sean “Diddy” Combs’ scandal into his new Netflix special.
While detailing his 2023 medical emergency in Tuesday’s “What Had Happened Was,” the “Blame It” singer addressed the conspiracy theories running rampant online at the time.
The Oscar winner, 56, noted that some social media users claimed Combs, 55, “was trying to kill” him.
“The internet said Puffy was trying to kill me, that’s what the internet was saying,” Foxx recalled. “I know what you thinking, ‘Diddy?’
“Hell no, I left them parties early,” he continued, referencing Combs’ infamous bashes that have fallen under scrutiny amid his recent legal troubles.
The actor joked that he was always “out by 9” since “something [didn’t] look right” at Combs’ gatherings, which allegedly featured massive sex performances called “Freak-Offs.”
Foxx quipped, “It’s slippery in here.”
Choke No Joke attended one of the three stand-up shows Foxx recorded in October for his Netflix release — and told Comedy Hype that the “Back in Action” star joked about Combs.
The videographer claimed that Foxx alleged that the Bad Boy Records founder “was responsible” for his April 2023 hospitalization.
Choke also alleged Foxx told audience members that he was “the one who called the FBI on” Combs ahead of Homeland Security raiding his homes in March.
“I don’t think he was joking,” Choke added. “Y’all can determine was he joking or not when you see the show, ’cause to me — I’m a new comedian, right? … I know when somebody’s setting up a punchline, and I know when you’re serious.”
He went on to point out that Foxx, who underwent physical rehabilitation earlier this year after a “brain bleed led to a stroke,” “disappeared” from the public eye and emerged after Combs’ arrest.
“As soon as Puff went to jail, [Foxx] was at the goddamn Dallas football game, right? And now he just went and shot his special,” Choke noted, calling Foxx “scared.”
The alleged jokes Choke described, if told, did not make the show’s final cut.
Foxx did, however, go into detail about the “medical complication” that nearly killed him, saying he lost 20 days of memory after a “bad headache” and woke up in a wheelchair.
Foxx, tearfully, recalled asking whether he was at the brunt of a “f–king prank.”
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.”
He joked that while his life didn’t flash before his eyes, he found himself in a tunnel and couldn’t tell whether he saw the devil at the end or Combs.
“Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…” is now streaming on Netflix.
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