Overview

• Netflix began streaming The Truth About Jussie Smollett??, a documentary that features new on-camera interviews with the actor and leans into competing narratives.
• Director Gagan Rehill says the film is designed to let viewers draw their own conclusions rather than deliver a definitive account.
• Critics fault the documentary for presenting little new evidence and for glossing over portions of the record while amplifying ambiguity.
• The film includes the Osundairo brothers, who have long asserted that Smollett hired them to stage the incident, alongside perspectives that challenge Chicago police conclusions.
• In 2019 Smollett reported a late-night attack with slurs, a rope and a shouted reference to “MAGA country,” and his 2021 convictions were vacated in 2024 on due‑process grounds that bar a retrial.