In Jamie Foxx’s new comedy special, “What Had Happened Was,” he reassures the audience that he left parties thrown by Sean “Diddy” Combs by 9 p.m.
In his new comedy special, Jamie Foxx makes time amid emotional revelations about his recent health scare and spot-on celebrity impressions to poke fun at Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s awaiting trial in jail on three felony charges including sex trafficking.
In the opening minutes of “What Had Happened Was”, which premiered Tuesday on Netflix, Foxx jokes about the conspiracy theories that surrounded his 2023 hospitalization and subsequent withdrawal from the public eye. (These included theories that he was secretly dead and others that he’d been cloned.)
In the special, Foxx reveals that he suffered a stroke while he was filming a Netflix movie in Atlanta.
“Atlanta saved my life. The internet was trying to kill me, though. The internet said that Puffy tried to kill me”, Foxx says, referring to the stage name Combs used in the ’90s. “That’s what the internet was saying. I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he?'”
Foxx waits a beat for laughter and then assures the crowd that he’s not connected to Combs’ legal troubles.
“Hell naw, n****.
