Two years ago actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in the county jail, 30 months felony probation, and ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution to the City of Chicago and $25, 000.00 in fines for staging a hate crime hoax [click here if you missed that].
Jussie calls those times the darkest in his life...
From People
Despite the narrative he says so many have assumed, Smollett maintains his innocence to this day.
"I was numb," he says, recalling the incident to PEOPLE. "I didn't know how to connect the dots. I really genuinely did not know. I couldn't make sense of what was going on, and I couldn't make sense of what people were actually thinking ... what exactly do they think happened? I couldn't put two and two together."
The Empire alum thought that there was "no way" the public could believe "a stupid rumor" and that the majority of the noise was being created by "haters."
"They had a mission," he explained. "I felt very disconnected from that. I still to this day can't entirely make sense of, 'What the f--- was that?' But obviously it was painful. I certainly am not going to sit here and try to act to the world as if I was fine."
Smollett says he has since put in years of self-reflection and healing, calling it "difficult." In fact, he says, "We're still dealing with the repercussions from that narrative. We're still dealing with that every day."
4 comments:
“ The Empire alum thought that there was "no way" the public could believe "a stupid rumor" and that the majority of the noise was being created by "haters."
Why is he still talking about it and lying !! You said it was two white men it turned out to be two big black men that you knew!! They have text messages and phone calls why are you still lying!! This man has a serious mental illness
This man is still living in an alternate reality. The only haters involved are the ones in his head who convinced him that that ridiculous stunt would work to raise his profile. Will someone who cares about him please tell him to stop talking about this mess.
Poor guy is still sipping on that big cup of delusional tea and trying to convince anyone that will listen he is a victim
Shame on the interviewer for not pressing in on this man for nearly starting a race war.
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