Jussie Smollett revisits attack allegations in new Netflix documentary

Six years after he claimed he was the victim of a hate crime, actor Jussie Smollett continues to push back against Chicago officials' narrative that it was all a "hoax."In "The Truth About Jussie Smollett?," a Netflix documentary that debuts Thursday, Smollett, the former "Empire" star, revisits the legal battle surrounding the alleged attack, which police and city officials said he orchestrated against himself

Six years after he claimed he was the victim of a hate crime, actor Jussie Smollett continues to push back against Chicago officials' narrative that it was all a "hoax."

In "The Truth About Jussie Smollett?," a Netflix documentary that debuts Thursday, Smollett, the former "Empire" star, revisits the legal battle surrounding the alleged attack, which police and city officials said he orchestrated against himself.

While the documentary is being released just over three months after Smollett and the city of Chicago reached a civil settlement, Smollett spends much of his interview segments defending himself and maintaining his innocence.

"At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter whether someone likes me or doesn’t like me," Smollett says in the documentary, adding: "The fact is: I didn’t do that. And that’s all that matters."

Smollett, who is Black and gay, first reported a hate crime committed against him in January 2019, alleging that two men confronted him with racial and homophobic slurs, wrapped a rope around his neck and poured bleach on him.