Jussie Smollett Is Standing His Ground, Is He Really Innocent?

After his release from Jail, Jussie Smollett is still denying ever staging the racist homophobic attack on himself just to advance his career.

In his first ever interview since returning from prison in March, Jussie told SiriusXM’s Sway in the Morning on Tuesday that he never did any hate crime or attack just to advance in his career, he claimed his career was already on the “up and up.”

Jussie Smollett — The Origin Of The Verdict

Okay, so this is how it started. It was way back in January 2019 that Jussie who for the record is openly gay, told the Chicago police that two men yelled racist and homophobic slurs at and attacked him, that his attackers poured an unknown chemical substance on him, and wrapped a rope around his neck.

A month after the complaint, prosecutors charged Jussie with filing a false report, but then, the charges were dropped that same year, in March 2019. Then, around February 2020, Just was yet again indicted on similar charges. Prosecutors maintained that Jussie masterminded the whole attack with the two men — brothers who testified that the actor paid them to do so — to gain publicity.

In March, Jussie was sentenced to 30 months of felony probation, with the first 150 days to be served in county jail. He was also ordered to pay $120,000 in restitution to the city of Chicago. A few days after his sentencing, an appeals court agreed to release Smollett pending the appeal of his conviction. Smollett has consistently denied any wrongdoing, telling the jury in March that “there was no hoax.”

Jussie Smollett’s – Family Shielded Him From The Media

While speaking with SiriusXM’s Sway in the Morning, Jussie explained that his entire life was built on social justice and that if he had done what he is being accused of doing, to him, it would mean that he “stuck my fist in the pain of Black Americans in this country for over 400 years.”

In his exact words, Jussie said, “My entire career, but much more importantly, my entire life, along with my family, represented social justice,” he said. “It’s like finding out that someone is exactly the opposite of who they claim to be. If I had done this, I’d be a piece of shit. If I had done something like this, it would mean that I stuck my fist in the pain of Black Americans in this country for over 400 years.”

“It would mean that I stuck my fist in the fears of the LGBTQ community all over the world,” Smollett added. “All of these things that I was creating, there would be no reason for me to do some dumb, corny shit like that.” Following his conviction in December 2021, Smollett said his family shielded him from the media frenzy “in a really beautiful way” at the height of the controversy.

“When I say I was shut off from the world, I was shut off from the world,” Smollett said. “My family took my phone. I did not have my phone. I was not allowed to get on social media.” When he eventually Googled himself, Smollett realized that was the “worst idea ever,” adding, “I really saw what it was and it was so painful because I was like, ‘Oh, he said that about me. Oh my God. Oh, she said that? What?'”

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