Jussie smollett is gay

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So I'm honored for this opportunity and I'm honored to be here with you."Need a news break? My mama likes me a lot. You know? After a chance email to the show's creator, Lee Daniels, he landed an audition.

"I direct-messaged Lee Daniels on Instagram and I just told him, 'I know that you get this all the time, but I sing and I dance and I songwrite and I act.

"I will continue creating my art, fighting passionately for causes I hold dear and defending my integrity and family name with the truth."

Smollett previously told People magazine in an interview in September 2024, "I've moved on and I know that the world, one day, and it might be long after I'm gone, who knows, but one day the world is going to fix this.

"And I just wanted to make that clear, but it was most important for me to make that clear to you on your show at this time in the world."

This time in Smollett's world has been a highlight of his career as an indie musician. "I live my life, and if you really want to know about me, just watch, because I don't hide anything.

And that's where I'm at. That I've been in. Now, Smollett is speaking out on the only platform he feels comfortable enough to do so.

"What you've done within the LGBT community is very much, in my opinion, kind of like what Michael Jackson did with the black community, just that you are who you are," he said.

"You're just Ellen.

My mama knows. Love y'all!! So it was really important to me to make sure that it got across that there is no closet," Smollett continued.

"There is without a doubt, no closet that I've ever been in," he said. In a statement released on Instagram, the actor said he would pay $50,000 to a local nonprofit.

"What I have to do now is move forward," he said.

So, any questions? I just can't wait for that to happen because I have a life to live. He claimed at the time that he was attacked by men who yelled homophobic slurs at him in Chicago.

Jussie Smollett says he has 'to move forward' after alleged hate crime hoax

Smollett was charged with lying to police about the attack, and he was convicted of felony disorderly conduct in 2021.

I don't own a closet, I got a dresser, but I don't have a closet, but I have a home and that is my responsibility to protect that home. "But I didn't know it was going to be the crazy phenomenon that it's become in the last eight weeks."

Following the episode when his character came out, Smollett received hate online, but it didn't deter him from moving forward with the storyline or in revealing he's also gay in real life.

"I get some ignorant tweets every once in a while … and I know you're not supposed to respond, but sometimes you got to clap back!" he exclaimed.

"I'm a firm believer that people cannot get away with murder ...

But honestly, we're human and we love and we do all that good stuff. I live my life. I'm Jamal Lyon in more ways than one.'"

"It made him pay attention," DeGeneres said of Smollett's persistence.

While Smollett doesn't peg his online outreach to Daniels as the sole reason behind landing the audition, he admitted that it didn't hurt.

So, let's not read into it in the wrong way when I say that I don't talk about my personal life, I'm saying that. “But at the same time I do understand why it is something to talk about.”

Smollett said he hopes to use the platform as a way to make other people feel less alone, and re-emphasized that his personal life is off-limits.

“I didn’t talk to Ellen so that people could, be like ‘oh my God, let’s see what Jussie does in his bedroom in his private life.’ But I did talk to her so that people understood that they’re not alone.