Over the last couple of months, there has been a lot of talk about Jamie Foxx’s health scare and hospitalization. While his family hasn’t publically disclosed why he was hospitalized for a “medical complication,” there has been a lot of speculation about it, with one person alleging that it had to do with a COVID-19 vaccination. As that claim went viral, a spokesperson for the actor responded making it clear that this rumor is not true.

The claim came from A.J. Benza, who told Dr. Drew Pinsky on his talk show Ask Dr. Drew that he had a source close to the situation who said Foxx was hospitalized and left “partially paralyzed and blind” after getting vaccinated for COVID-19. He also alleged that the actor was forced to get vaccinated and had a blood clot that led to a stroke.