Jussie Smollett wants you to know the truth.

The actor, who has been at the center of a hate crime hoax conviction and overturn for the past six years, is appearing in the new documentary The Truth Abound Jussie Smollett?, premiering on Netflix.

The actor was on a meteoric rise to fame with a pivotal role on Lee Daniels’ Empire when, on January 29, 2019, he filed a report with the Chicago Police Department that he had been the victim of a hate crime. He stated that the perpetrators, who were white, had hung a noose around his neck and hurled racial slurs. It was the type of news that gives mothers of Black boys nightmares. A month later, the CPD had turned its attention to Smollett, not as a victim, but as a perpetrator, the mastermind behind an elaborate hoax.

It set everything into a

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