Jussie Smollett says "it’s been difficult to be so quiet" in his first interview since February 2019

TheWrap

The former Empire star broke his silence Wednesday night on his ongoing legal battle over his alleged January 2019 hate crime hoax in an interview posted to journalist Marc Lamont Hill's Instagram account. "It’s been beyond frustrating because to be somebody that’s so outspoken… it’s been difficult to be so quiet," Smollett said, according to The Wrap. To not be able to say all of the things that you want to say, to not be able to yell from the rooftop. Because, I don’t think people realize that I’ve just been wrapped up in some form of a case for the last, approaching, in just a couple of months approaching two years. It’s been beyond frustrating. I’m certainly not going rogue. I’m still taking the advice of my attorneys and everything like that. But I just don’t see honestly what staying quiet has really done. Where it has gotten me.”