Artist, producer, and director Choke No Joke recently claimed that Jamie Foxx and Sean “Diddy” Combs’ friendship has gone “sour” amid the latter’s ongoing legal troubles. Choke No Joke sat with HYPE+ on October 8 and claimed that he witnessed the filming of Jamie Foxx’s forthcoming Netflix special based on his medical emergency last year and alleged that Diddy may have had a part to play in it.

“There’s been a rumor that the whole time Jamie was out for the industry insiders, Diddy had did that to him… They told Jamie to chill, he didn’t chill, and allegedly Diddy and his security beat Jamie a*s, and that’s why Jamie was in the hospital,” Choke No Joke claimed.

He further continued:

“There’s the thing where they saying that they gave him some kind of pill or something that knocked him out, but it all was alleged[ly] connected back to Diddy right because something happened with Diddy and Jamie.”

In April 2023, Jamie Foxx fell suddenly and seriously ill and was hospitalized for over a month. While the Oscar winner has made public appearances since December last year, so far, he has not revealed the exact cause of his medical emergency.

Exploring Choke No Joke’s latest remarks about Diddy’s alleged involvement in Jamie Foxx’s 2023 hospitalization

Choke No Joke recently appeared for an interview with HYPE+ which was uploaded on YouTube on Tuesday. During the interview, where he got candid about the Diddy controversy and claimed the Bad Boy Records owner was reportedly behind Jamie Foxx’s 2023 hospitalization.

“Recently, Jamie has a, um, uh, special coming out on Netflix called ‘What Had Happened Was’ and I went to the taping of it. It was a three days taping. It was three days taping. I went ot the first show. I went to the last show. Jamie Foxx states in this, spoiler alert… in the special that Diddy was responsible for what happened to him and he is the one that called the FBI on him,” Choke No Joke shared.

When asked whether Foxx was joking, the industry insider mentioned that he didn’t think it was a joke, and added that it was for the audience to decide when they see the show. Choke No Joke shared that while he was new to the comedy genre, he could understand well enough when somebody was making a “punchline” and when they were “serious.”

The Tunnel is Closed documentarian further claimed that he was the one who called out Jamie Foxx for making up stories but the latter insisted, which is when he went back and started to look at the “chain of events.” When the interviewer admitted that it does fit perfectly into the timeline and maybe once Foxx regained his health, he wanted a payback, Choke No Joke claimed:

“I wouldn’t say his get back but for his protection. Jamie was scared, right? He disappeared, right? He out now soon as Puff went to jail, right? We see him at the games with Jerry Jones… Before nobody seen Jamie. We just had those mysterious sightings of him…”

He further went on to claim that Foxx was finally feeling safe enough with Diddy behind bars that he was attending football games in Dallas, going to events, and filming the Netflix special surrounding Combs.

The host pointed out that Foxx and Diddy have been longtime friends and the former previously joked about him in his other comedy specials, Choke No Joke added that while all that was true, the past “bromance” had now seemingly turned “sour somewhere under the rainbow.”

Jamie Foxx previously joked about teaching Diddy how to party on a budget

In May 2018, Jamie Foxx appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and went on record to say how he used to party with Diddy back in the day and the latter was so famous that they couldn’t get into their own clubs in Los Angeles. During the show, the Texas native admitted that his friend Puff was a “playboy” and he often wanted to document his adventures when he came down to LA from NYC.

Foxx also shared how he would simply “hang out and watch him throw parties” and one day, Diddy seemingly claimed that one of them in Philadelphia cost a “million and a half dollars.”

“I’m like, ‘You are out of your mind.’ I said ‘Puff, I will throw you a party for 400 bucks that will rival this party.’ And he got pissed with me and said, ‘No, no, no, don’t play with me. I’m Diddy.’ I said, ‘No, I respect you. But in LA, I’m known to throw these modest little parties.’”

Jamie explained that from there, Diddy came all the way down his LA on a Saturday morning, asking him to “make it happen” as he was in town. So, he went on to invite “200 of the coolest people” he knew at the time including Missy Elliot, Jay-Z, Kanye, and The Neptunes, while Combs came with his “SUVs and FBIs because you know Puff has always been kind of dangerous with all kinds of people following him.”

The Spider-Man actor shared how Diddy came to his home and realized that he knew a lot of people there and learned they were all Jamie’s friends.

“He said, ‘Man, this is great.’ I said, ‘Puff, look over there on the dinner table, I got Kentucky Fried Chicken. I put it on a nice plate. I got Coca-Cola, and I put it in a pitcher. We are at 208 bucks and we are killin’ it right now,’” Foxx quipped.

About Jamie’s new comedy special

For those unaware, Jamie Foxx filmed his newest comedy special for Netflix titled What Had Happened Was: An Evening With Jamie Foxx from October 3 to 5 at Coca-Cola Stage, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, which he announced via Instagram earlier this month.

While the Miami Vice star has never fully opened up about his health scare last year, recently, during an interview with The Art of Dialogue he recalled how it began with a “bad headache” but he was then “gone for 20 days,” and when he finally woke up, he had no memory of what happened.

Before that, during his speech at the African American Film Critics Association, while receiving an award, he said that he was planning to tell the world what exactly occurred “in a funny way.” In July, he shared a message on social media saying how he went through “hell and back” and suffered something that he never thought he would, thanking his well-wishers and fans for their never-ending support and prayers.

Jamie Foxx is set to make a comeback with the Netflix action comedy Back In Action in January 2025.