About Jamie Foxx, Dr. Drew Airs Gossip Columnist’s Wild Anti-Vax Conspiracy

Dr Drew Airs Gossip Columnist’s Wild Anti-Vax Conspiracy: After an April stroke, was Jamie Foxx left “partially paralysed and blind”? A gossip columnist who appeared on longtime reality TV host Dr Drew’s online talk show this week to link Foxx’s enigmatic medical emergency to the COVID vaccine he was allegedly “forced” to get has made this completely unsubstantiated claim.

After he was hospitalised on April 11, Foxx’s family referred to it as a “medical complication” and his representatives have remained largely silent on the specifics of his health crisis.

Corinne Foxx, the daughter of the 55-year-old actor, issued a vague but optimistic statement in mid-May, stating that he had been “out of the hospital for weeks” and “playing pickleball.”

Conspiracy theorists were quick to speculate about Foxx’s condition following reports of unusual behaviour prior to his hospitalisation, including a “meltdown” he allegedly experienced while filming the Netflix film Back in Action in Atlanta.

Foxx’s name did not trend on Twitter again until Tuesday, when former New York Daily News columnist and Fame Is a Bitch podcast host A.J. Benza appeared on Ask Dr. Drew.

“It’s all lies,” insisted Benza regarding the information leaking from Foxx’s camp. He claimed an unnamed source “in the room” informed him that Foxx had developed a blood clot “in his brain” after receiving the injection.

Later, he reported that his “man in the room” informed him that the blood clot had rendered Foxx “partially paralysed and blind.”

Benza was eager to link the alleged s

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Dr Drew Airs Gossip Columnist’s Wild Anti-Vax Conspiracy

A week before his crisis, he hypothesised that the vaccine was the reason Foxx “blew up” on the Atlanta set.

Right-wing figures such as Charlie Kirk, who railed against Hollywood’s “cash cow clot shot” mandates, and pro-MAGA rapper Bryson Grey, who tweeted, “Shame on EVERYONE who called it safe and effective,” rapidly seized on and amplified the rumour.

There is no evidence to support a causal relationship between COVID-19 vaccines or boosters and the risk of stroke at this time. A nationwide study of over 4,1 million individuals conducted earlier this year failed to discover a higher rate of stroke a month after vaccination, regardless of vaccine type or combination. According to a second study from 2022, the prevalence of stroke among vaccinated patients was comparable to that of the general population.

In January, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration reported that their surveillance system had flagged a possible preliminary link between Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine and the risk of strokes in older individuals, but that the signal was “very unlikely” to represent a “true clinical risk.” Both organisations stated that they would continue to endorse the vaccine.

Foxx’s family was observed visiting him at a Chicago physical rehabilitation facility that specialises in stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, and cancer recovery just days after Benza’s “pickleball” statement.

In the same week, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson appeared to inadvertently reveal on a podcast that he had heard that Foxx had suffered a stroke. He almost immediately recanted, stating, “I have no idea what happened to him.”