Overview

• The Truth About Jussie Smollett?? debuted on Netflix with director Gagan Rehill explicitly positioning the project to present competing narratives and let viewers draw their own conclusions.
• Smollett appears on camera to reiterate his innocence, saying his story has not changed, and he explains that he withheld his phone over concerns about exposing drug use and that a $3,500 check was for training and an herbal steroid.
• The documentary features the Chicago police account and interviews with Ola and Abimbola Osundairo alongside two witnesses, Anthony Moore and Rebecca Bell, who describe seeing a white man near the scene.
• Coverage notes disputed readings of grainy security images and highlights how perceptions of the same footage diverge among police, the Osundairo brothers, and eyewitnesses.
• Smollett’s 2021 convictions were vacated by the Illinois Supreme Court in November 2024 on due-process grounds related to an earlier disposition, his civil dispute with Chicago was settled in May 2025, and he is set to appear on Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test on September 25.