JUUUUUUST KIDDING. Jussie Smollett is completely and TOTALLY responsible for this. But it looks like that’s his latest angle.
Smollett told police he has an “untreated drug problem” which is shorthand for “I don’t want to be held accountable for this, and am looking for ways to continue to play the victim.”
Drugs don’t fake hate crimes, Jussie.
The report comes from TMZ, which has been tracking the twisting and turning celebrity “hate crime attack” saga from the beginning. The police report on the alleged hate hoax appears to back up the premise, specifying that Smollett, “on several occassions,” obtained drugs from one of the co-conspirators.
“Jussie told police, during his arrest, he has a drug problem … one for which he’s never been treated,” TMZ reported in an update on its report on the Smollett charges Thursday. “That could become relevant later in the case because, as we reported, cops say Jussie bought ecstasy from Abel. IF he were convicted, a drug issue could be a mitigating factor that gets his sentenced reduced.” TMZ also notes that Smollett “answered ‘no’ to alcohol or mental health problems.”
In the bond report released Thursday, Chicago PD provided the following description of Smollett’s relationship with Abel Osundairo, one of the alleged co-conspirators (emphasis added):
Defendant Smollett was close friends with an individual by the name of Ambibola “Abel” Osundairo, who is 25 years old. Smollett and Abel initiated their friendship in the fall of 2017. During the course of this friendship, Defendant Smollett and Abel socialized together, exercised together, as well as worked together on the Fox television series Empire. Within that working relationship, Abel was a stand-in for a character named “Kai”, who is a love interest of the Defendant Smollett’s character on the Empire TV Show. Additionally, text messages between Defendant Smollett and Abel revealed that Abel was a source of designer drugs for Defendant Smollett. Specifically, since the spring of 2018, on several occasions, Defendant Smollett requested Abel to provide him with “Molly”, which is a street name for the narcotic Ecstasy.
I’m almost entirely sure he’s cooking this up as a defense. “You CAN’T blame me! I’m not a MONSTER! I WAS OUT OF MY MIND ON DRUGS.”
I’m not buying it.
Jussie has a HISTORY of lying to law enforcement. The plan was enacted over the course of some time. It didn’t just “randomly happen” during a drug binge.
The report alleges that Smollett initiated the planning for the staged attack on the morning of January 25, 2019, asking when Abel and his brother, Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo, 27, were planning to leave for their trip to Nigeria. Later that day, police say, Smollett laid out his plan to Abel to stage the attack and suggested he invite his brother to help.
The report underscores that Smollett knew both of the men well and suggests he could not have mistaken them for white males, as he had claimed. The report also asserts that Smollett expressed his dissatisfaction with the studio’s response to the hate letter he allegedly sent to himself a few days prior.
So NO. This CANNOT be attributed to his drug use.
JUSSIE SMOLLETT IS IN NO WAY A “VICTIM” – no matter how badly he wants to be.