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Uncover the twists, turns, and unanswered questions behind one of the most controversial cases in recent years. Watch the official trailer for The Truth About Jussie Smollett?, streaming August 22, 2025 on Netflix.

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00:00January 29th, 2019, police were called to an incident.
00:05They see an actor called Jussie Smollett with a noose around his neck.
00:09He says that he was the victim of a hate crime.
00:12To think that I had two white guys attack a black man in this city was disgusting to me.
00:19This was a racially motivated incident involving a celebrity.
00:23I knew this was going to be huge.
00:25You could not turn on the TV. You could not turn on the radio.
00:28It literally was everywhere.
00:30I thought it was a horrible crime at first.
00:33Until it started to fall apart.
00:36Jussie was still being treated as the victim, but the narrative out there was shifting.
00:41Some things kind of struck me as a little odd.
00:44It does not fit with Jussie's account of what occurred.
00:47We were going through the polar vortex at the time.
00:49Who is out in the street with it being cold out there?
00:53The fact that they weren't buying his story was like, wow.
00:56Time is ticking and the pressure's on to get to the bottom of what's going on.
01:00We saw that they had actually identified who these guys were.
01:04I was like, we got this dude now.
01:06The twists and turns of it are really jaw-dropping.
01:10I would not be my mother's son if I was capable of one drop of what I would have been accused of.
01:15Most people don't really know the truth and what the actual evidence in the case was.
01:21Evidence from the scene shows that there were white men there.
01:24Could it be possible that Justice Smollett is actually innocent?
01:27What kind of bizarro world are they living in?
01:31I don't want to say it's suspicious.
01:34It seems sensational.
01:35I'm innocent!
01:37Chicago police has a century-long history of lying to the public.
01:43They're just creating a distraction.
01:46What the f*** is going on?
01:50The biggest question is who really can we trust?
01:53We won't lie to the crime.

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