Cameron Diaz breaks silence on big Jamie Foxx rumour
Cameron Diaz has finally addressed reports Jamie Foxx’s behaviour on the set of their new movie caused her to quit acting for the second time.
Cameron Diaz finally addressed the longstanding rumours that Jamie Foxx’s behaviour on the set of their new movie caused her to quit acting for the second time.
“I really hate all of the things that were being said about our set at the time,” she said on Tuesday’s episode of Molly Sims’ Lipstick on the Rim podcast.
“You just want to scream at the top of your lungs, like, ‘What are you talking about?’”
Diaz specifically mentioned the rumours that Foxx was “making everything miserable” behind the scenes, which allegedly caused her to “never make another movie again.”
Diaz, 51, maintained that the reports couldn’t have been farther from the truth.
“Jamie is the best. I love that guy so much,” she said. “He’s such a special person and he’s so talented, so much fun.”
The Charlie’s Angels star did admit that there were “hiccups” on set. However, they were just the “natural things that happen.”
The only unexpected delay, Diaz explained, was due to Foxx’s weeks-long hospitalisation.
“That’s something that is not my place to speak about,” she said, adding that Foxx, 56, is “thriving” now.
“When I see and hear people trying to take another person down like that … [Jamie is] so classy. He’s like, ‘Nope. Just let them [talk].’”
Back in Action is Diaz’s first Hollywood movie since 2014 when she stepped away from acting to start a family. It also is the third project she and Foxx have co-starred in, having previously worked together on Any Given Sunday and Annie.
While the Oscar winner hasn’t addressed the reports about their rumoured feud, he briefly discussed the mystery illness that left him unable to walk. He has never shared his diagnosis.
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“I’m not a clone, I’m not a clone. I know a lot of people who were saying I was cloned out there,” he said during a recent acceptance speech.
“I want to thank everybody. I’ve been through something, I’ve been through some things. I wouldn’t wish what I went through on my worst enemy because it’s tough when it’s almost over … when you see the tunnel. I saw the tunnel — I didn’t see the light.”
This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission.