Jamie Foxx’s co-star Porscha Coleman says he’s doing “great,” he just wants his privacy
Foxx and Coleman appeared together on Netflix's Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!
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Back in the middle of April, Jamie Foxx was hospitalized with some sort of serious medical issue, though we still don’t really know how serious it was or what actually happened to him. People who know Foxx offered vague explanations and assurances that he was okay, but his daughter explained a month later that he had been out of the hospital for “weeks” and was actually doing well enough to play pickleball (so whatever happened, he’s still up on the trends).
Now, Foxx’s Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! co-star Porscha Coleman has shared another update (via Billboard, from the red carpet of the BET Awards) about his status. She says she has talked to people “very close” to him, and they say Foxx is “doing well,” but “media outlets kept running with the narrative of what was going on without having the proper information.”
Coleman also noted Foxx has “always been on the low,” saying he has “always been private” about his real life outside of the entertainment industry, so she was never “surprised” by his reluctance to make any of this public. She also reiterated that he’s “doing great” and will “be back” at some point, since he has “a lot of projects coming up” and also “a lot of music” in the works.
So we still don’t know what happened, and the only indication we have that he’s doing okay is people insisting that he’s okay… but by pointing any of that out, we’re continuing the trend of the media trying to make this into a bigger story than it supposedly is… but also it’s our job to at least publicly wonder what happened to Jamie Foxx because people are curious about it… but also yeah, he deserves a right to some privacy
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Look, celebrities want to be publicly adulated and for us all to form a parasocial relationship with them where we basically treat them like gods, but they don’t want us to wonder what’s going on when something bad happens to them. Whaddya need, a map?
Yep – The hypocrisy of this sudden need for privacy make Foxx a lot less likeable. If you make your living by milking a relationship with the public, then you have to understand that information flows both ways.Jeremy Renner didn’t scream “privacy!” when he was almost killed in a debilitating accident because he understands that he’s a public figure. The public was concerned and overwhelmingly supportive of his recovery.
If TMZ doesn’t know, there’s probably nothing worth knowing. Unless they wouldn’t pay up for info on a mid 50s dude like they would for Britney.
I’m not sure even the shitty rags are bothering to generate a lot of fake news about Jamie Foxx, but the people who are running away with it are the same anti-vax assholes who crawl out of the woodwork literally every time any public figure trips or wheezes. Generate 2-6 months of crazy bullshit like body doubles, admit no wrongdoing when said figure reappears and is just fine, rinse and repeat.Foxx doesn’t have to give any updates on his condition, and it’s unlikely that even if he did, it would do much to stem the flow of bullshit conspiracy theories. But I have the feeling this is going to come back as something he feels mildly emasculated by like breast cancer or testicular torsion and he’s concerned about how it might affect his public image. Fine, but ultimately who cares?