A rumor circulating on social networks and relayed by an American columnist claims that actor Jamie Foxx, hospitalized since April, found himself “paralyzed and blind” following the injection of an anti-Covid vaccine. . An “infox” that a spokesperson for the actor hastened to deny.
Was actor Jamie Foxx, hospitalized last April, “victim” of an anti-Covid vaccine? This is what American “people” columnist AJ Benza claimed at the end of May, declaring that the 55-year-old actor had found himself “paralyzed and blind” following the injection of a serum against the coronavirus.
“Jamie had a blood clot in his brain after getting the shot. He didn’t want the shot, but the movie he was in pressured him to get it. The blood clot in his brain l ‘rendered partially paralyzed and blind,” the podcast host claimed on the show “Ask Dr. Drew”.
Far from “inventing” these facts, AJ Benza only relayed a rumor that is swelling on social networks, and which is agitating part of the American far right: the idea that the Covid-19 pandemic was “invented” by the health authorities, and that vaccines are “deadly”.
“Those of us who have spoken out against mRNA injection have been attacked from all sides. I am furious that a decent person like Jamie Foxx has fallen victim to Big Pharma because a movie set is still stupid enough to demand the injection of their jackpot vaccine”, was indignant on June 1 Charles Kirk, conservative activist and supporter of Donald Trump.
“Completely false”
Faced with these infox, a spokesperson for Jamie Foxx tried to extinguish the controversy: at the microphone of the NBC channel, he assured that this rumor was “completely false”.
Last month, the 55-year-old star was rushed to a medical facility in Georgia, in the southern United States, where he was filming a film for Netflix.
No details of the actor’s ailments have since been released, leading some to speculate that his condition is deteriorating. Several media have thus argued that Jamie Foxx had suffered a stroke.