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Jamie Foxx's Netflix Special titled What Had Happened Was... dropped on Netflix on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. In this one-hour comedy special, Foxx opened up about the medical emergency he dealt with last year, which had the 56-year-old fighting for his life.
Jamie also took a dig at Diddy's infamous "freak-off" parties on stage. The show comes months after the hip-hop mogul was arrested on multiple charges of s*xual assault and trafficking in New York, as reported by BBC.
Between Jamie Foxx and Diddy, the latter has a bigger net worth. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Diddy's wealth is estimated to be over $400 million, while Jamie Foxx's fortune is about $170 million.
Besides being a rapper, Diddy also owns a record label that represents a wide roster of artists. His business spreads far and wide beyond music, covering everything from clothing apparel to alcoholic beverages. Meanwhile, Foxx is a recognized comedian and actor, having won an Oscar award for his role in the 2004 movie, Ray.
Diddy has a bigger net worth than Jamie Foxx
Diddy started his career in the entertainment industry as a rapper and soon founded his own record label called Bad Boy Records that represents a wide roster of artists.
Beyond the world of music, Diddy (aka Sean John Combs) is also a successful entrepreneur with a self-named fashion brand, Sean John. He also owns an alcoholic beverage company called Combs Wines & Spirits, and a lifestyle beverage business, AQUAHydrate.
Meanwhile, Foxx is one of the Hollywood's prominent faces. On the comedy front, he is best known for the TV series In Living Color (1991-1994) and sitcom The Jamie Foxx Show (1996-2001).
In 2005, he not only won an Academy Oscar for Best Actor in Ray, but was also nominated in the category of Best Supporting Actor for Collateral. His other notable works include Dream Girls, Django Unchained, Baby Driver, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Just Mercy, and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
As a singer, Foxx has released five studio albums so far, out of which four have charted in the top 10 of Billboard's 200 album chart.
Jamie Foxx started his Netflix special with a dig at Diddy
As Jamie Foxx opened his comedy special, he started by adding that the internet was trying to kill him, referring to the widely popular online speculation that Combs had a role to play in his hospitalization last year. Foxx said:
"The internet was trying to kill me... The internet was saying that Puffy was trying to kill me. I know what you’re thinking… Did he?! Hell no."
The 56-year-old continued:
"I left them parties early. I was out by 9, n***a, something don’t look right, n***a. It looks slippery in here!"
Elsewhere in the Netflix special, Jamie shared the story of what had happened to him last year, bringing to light the unknown facts about his mysterious hospitalization in April 2023, while he was on the sets of a Cameron Diaz-starrer film, Back in Action.
Foxx started by claiming that the illness was still a mystery for everyone. It started as a headache, to manage which the actor asked for an aspirin. However, before he could take the medicine, Jamie Foxx was out cold, and remained that way for the next 20 days, having no memory of it.
Elaborating on what being close to death felt like, the Horrible Bosses actor said:
"Your life doesn’t flash before your face, it was kind of oddly peaceful. I say this all the time, I saw the tunnel, I didn’t see the light."
Taking another dig at the Bad Boys for Life rapper, Foxx continued:
It was hot in that tunnel. I thought, sh*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?"
Jamie Foxx then clarified that he was only joking. While laughing, he said:
"I’m f**king around, but if that was Puffy he had a flaming bottle of Johnson and… no, I’m just kidding. Come on in here, n***a. No, I’m just kidding.”
The Miami Vice actor also revealed that he was initially given cortisone and sent home, but her sister, Deidra Dixon, had an instinct that something was wrong with him and drove him to Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital.
It was there that they found out Foxx suffered a brain bleed that had caused a stroke, as he mentioned in his Netflix special. It needed an immediate medical intervention to save the 56-year-old's life. After the treatment, it took Foxx a year to recover completely, as per NBC.
Jamie Foxx's digs at Sean "Diddy" Combs come after the rapper and entrepreneur is charged with various assault lawsuits. Combs is currently held at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Correctional Center as he awaits his trial, which starts in May 2025.
