Jussie Smollett is maintaining his innocence. Smollett, 40, insisted he did not lie about the alleged hate crime hoax in a new interview on the SiriusXM show "Sway in the Morning." "If I had done this, I’d be a piece of s---.
And I don’t think that’s really questionable," he said. "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. I'm not that motherf---er - never have been, don't need to be," Smollett insisted.
The "Empire" actor was convicted in December on charges he staged an anti-gay, racist attack on himself nearly three years ago and then lied to Chicago police about it.
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