Jamie Foxx wanted to celebrate his birthday (and, presumably, the release of his new Netflix comedy special), but he got more than he bargained for when he was reportedly hit by a glass and injured to the point of needing stitches.
TMZbroke the story that Foxx, his daughters, and his ex Kristin Grannis were at the Beverly Hills location of Mr. Chow on Friday night (December 13) when police got notice of a fight happening inside.
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A spokesperson for Foxx told the outlet what went down: “Jamie Foxx was at his birthday dinner when someone from another table threw a glass that hit him in the mouth. He had to get stitches and is recovering. The police were called and the matter is now in law enforcement’s hands.”
In other Foxx news, his recently-released special Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was… finds the comedian revisiting his April 2023 health scare – which he revealed was a brain bleed that led to a stroke.
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However, the internet was running rampant with rumors that the cause was actually an unsuccessful hit by Diddy – claims that were amplified by Joe Rogan when he discussed it on his podcast in November.
But Jamie was sure to clarify that was not the case.
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“The internet said that Puffy tried to kill me. That’s what the internet was saying!” he says in the special, which was recorded in October. “I know what you thinking – ‘Did he?’ Hell nah, n-gga. I left them parties early. I was out by 9, n-gga. Something don’t look right. It’s slippery in here.”
He throws in a few more jokes about Diddy throughout the special as well.
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When discussing his nearly-fatal health scare, he said: “I looked at the end of the tunnel, and I thought I saw the devil like, ‘Come on.’ Or is that Puffy? I’m fucking around.”
Later in his set, he references the 1,000 bottles of baby oil seized from Diddy’s property: “If it was Puffy, he had a flaming bottle of Johnson &… I’m just kidding.”
Following the final of the three-night taping of the special in October, Gayle King captured backstage footage where Jamie Foxx admitted it was not easy to re-visit the experience of his health crisis.
“It was an excruciating time to be able to open those wounds every single day for three nights,” he said. “It was excruciating because the worry is what gets you. We’ve got a great show in the room, but we don’t know what they may laugh or what they may not laugh at. Any comedian will tell you that’s the thing, the worry is the thing.
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“Usually, when you do a stand-up special, you go out for a year and a half and work every little nook and cranny, and then you tape it. You don’t just show up in Atlanta and turn the camera on. It’s a personal journey, and I hope I never have to – I am never going to go through this again. My next jokes will start out, ‘Knock, knock!’ I’ll do an hour and a half of ‘Knock, knock’ jokes.”
