Six years after claiming that he was the victim of a hate crime, actor Jussie Smollett is continuing to push back against the narrative put forth by Chicago officials that it was all a “hoax.”

In “The Truth About Jussie Smollett?”, a new Netflix documentary that debuts Thursday, the former “Empire” star revisits the legal battle surrounding the alleged attack, which police and city officials said he orchestrated against himself.

While the documentary’s release comes just over three months after Smollett and the city of Chicago reached a civil settlement, the actor spends much of his interview segments defending himself and maintaining his innocence.

“At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter whether someone likes me or doesn’t like me,” Smollett said in the documentary, adding that “the

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