*Jamie Foxx is being put under the spotlight, once again, but this time over some family related drama.
Like many famous people out there, his 74-year-old father and family is reaching out to him via tabloids, blaming the actor for a strained relationship.
“We’ve called Jamie several times over the years and left hundreds of messages,” the actor’s stepmother Hellema Abdullah told The ENQUIRER.
“But he has never returned our calls. Now his father is sick with severe scar tissue on his lungs and has to be on oxygen every day. I just wish Jamie would call.”
Jamie’s parents, Darrell Bishop and Louise Annette Talley, were very young when he was born. Overwhelmed, they decided to let Louise’s parents adopt him, and he was raised in a strict Christian home.
The actor, raised by his grandmother, kept in contact with his father sporadically over the years. But after his grandmother passed in 2004, contact had been almost completely cut off.
By the way, Foxx’s father converted to Islam and changed his name to Shaheed Abdullah, and for a while the star had minimal contact with him.
An insider claims that by cutting off contact, Jamie is getting revenge against his father for all the years he was abandoned. Jamie even discussed the pain of being given away by parents who still lived nearby.
“I still ask myself why they didn’t want me. Maybe they weren’t ready to raise a child. Was it too inconvenient? I lived just up the street from them. I’ll never understand it.”
If this story is true…I doubt that Jamie will read this but I pray that if he doesn’t someone will tell him…Our birth parents do the best they can, even if that best is nothing. He was lucky. God looked after him and placed him in very good hands. It may be true that they are needing money due to his illness. So what. Many celebrities give oodles of money to people who are less than strangers. This opportunity is more for Jamie than anyone. We only get one birth mother and father. No matter what their best was it is up to us to do our best. Even if our best is soooo much more that theirs. At the end of the day if there is any love in his heart for him he should act on it in some positive way. Even if that action is just a prayer. Sometimes we just don’t have the strength to move forward. It may hurt too much. But if you do, please do so. That goes for all of you/us.
Forgiveness is a hard issue to deal with for many.. its apparent Mr. Fox is HuRT his parents throw him away as a child, its the hardest thing for any child to accept the fact parents give them up..and even at a later date never was told WHY?. The parents are not excused for their actions..there are consequences for such actions. its a choice for Jamie and not a act that Jamie should respond too for the simple fact– he doesn’t know his parents who lived right down the street from him as a CHILD…he’s not under any obligation to jump to the side of either parents ‘death bed unless he wants too as a personal and private issue…HE doesn’t know them as his parents who raised him…they did not and he never knew why not….