By Stephen M. Lepore For Dailymail.Com
23:14 18 Oct 2023, up to date 23:39 18 Oct 2023
- Smollett is in an outpatient facility at an unknown location
- Jussie has had a particularly troublesome previous few years,’ mentioned a consultant
- The Empire star filed an attraction of the December 2021 conviction for staging an anti-gay, racist assault on himself after which mendacity to Chicago police about it
Actor Jussie Smollett is headed to rehab after what his reps are calling an ‘extraordinarily troublesome previous few years’ because the performer nonetheless makes an attempt to attraction his conviction in Chicago.
The Empire star filed an attraction of the December 2021 conviction for staging an anti-gay, racist assault on himself after which mendacity to Chicago police about it.
Smollett is in an outpatient facility at an unknown location, in response to TMZ.
‘Jussie has had a particularly troublesome previous few years. He has quietly been working very exhausting for a while now and we’re happy with him for taking these mandatory steps.’ a spokesperson for the actor mentioned in a press release.
It is not recognized what precisely Smollett is headed to rehab for however testimony through the trial hinted at heavy drug use.
Smollett referred to as for a brand new trial in March after being jailed for staging the assault on himself.
In the course of the police probe, Chicago cops concluded that Smollett had employed brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo to hold out the crime. He was sentenced to 150 days in jail final yr.
Within the 102 web page attraction, they wrote: ‘Mr. Smollett’s constitutional rights to due course of and to a good trial had been denied by prosecutorial misconduct together with allegations {that a} protection witness was pressured to alter his assertion…and shifting the burden throughout closing arguments.’
Smollett was convicted in December of 5 counts of disorderly conduct for mendacity to police about being the sufferer of a racist, anti-gay assault he mentioned was perpetrated by Trump supporters who screamed ‘that is MAGA nation’.
He advised Chicago police he had been accosted on a darkened road by two masked strangers.
In accordance with his account of the assault, the assailants threw a noose round his neck and poured chemical substances on him whereas yelling racist and homophobic slurs and expressing help for then-President Donald Trump.
The 2 assaulters had been Nigerian brothers Abel and Ola Osundairo, who’re black.
The brothers, who testified in court docket, advised the jury Smollett employed them to pretend the assault as a result of he needed to spice up his movie star profile.
Smollett later claimed that within the days earlier than the stunt, when prosecutors mentioned he and the brothers had been rehearsing the assault, they had been really getting collectively to smoke marijuana.
He shocked the court docket by claiming he ‘made out with’ and ‘masturbated’ with Abimbola Osundairo throughout a go to to a bathhouse.
The actor advised the jury he thought the brothers staged the assault on him to attempt to scare him into pondering he wanted bodyguards, and to provide them the job.
In March 2022, three months after a jury discovered him responsible of felony disorderly conduct, a choose sentenced the actor to 150 days in jail.
Smollett was six days into his sentence when an appeals court docket ordered his launch from custody pending an attraction of his conviction and sentence.
The Osundairo brothers have since filed a defamation lawsuit, alleging that Smollett’s feedback had been a part of an effort to painting them as racist, homophobic and violent males who actually attacked him.
