After more than a week of witness testimony, the trial in Chicago surrounding the once-rising star of the television show 'Empire' is expected to continue Wednesday with closing arguments.
in his criminal trial, sparring with prosecutors over the sequence of events in 2019, when he says he was the victim of a hate crime attack, and blasting the testimony of the two brothers involved in the incident as"liars."
"It felt like something out of 'Looney Tunes' adventures. It felt like someone massive coming up to me. Not enough time to think," Smollett said."This person felt significantly larger than me. Dressed in dark clothes. A ski mask."Under cross-examination, Smollett said he initially refused to give Chicago police his cellphone for their investigation because he wanted his privacy.
Ahead of the staged attack, Osundairo said, Smollett sent him a text message about needing to to talk secretly"on the low," and that during the conversation Smollett brought up orchestrating a planned assault. Smollett said the text message was in reference to an illegal steroid that Osundairo previously told him he could get from Nigeria.
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