Jamie Foxx revealed that he began reading conspiracy theories about his life-threatening stroke as he was still in the hospital, with one in particular making the 57-year-old “flip.” The Oscar-winner toldThe Hollywood Reporter‘s Stand-Up Comedy Roundtable Thursday that he snuck his phone into the hospital because he “couldn’t get [his] mind around the fact” that he had a stroke, and wanted to see what the outside world was saying. “‘Puffy tried to kill me.’ No, Puffy didn’t try to kill me,” he recalled reading. “When they said I was a clone, that made me flip. I’m sitting in the hospital bed, like, ‘These b---h-a-- motherf---ers are trying to clone me.’” He said that the hospital “Men in Black-ed”him with medication, causing him to start hallucinating and speaking nonsense. Foxx’s psychiatrists ultimately decided to lower his medicine dosage. A bewildered Roy Wood Jr. said: “Wait, you read your conspiracy theory and you said, ‘Yes’?!” Foxx replied that he “was on another planet.” In his 2024 Netflix special, Foxx revealed that he suffered a brain bleed that led to a stroke which almost took his life in April 2023. At the time, doctors said that if he didn’t undergo surgery, he would die.
