{"id":267507,"date":"2019-02-14T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1015022"},"modified":"2019-02-14T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:32:00","slug":"jussie-smollett-tears-up-as-he-shares-horrifying-details-of-his-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/jussie-smollett-tears-up-as-he-shares-horrifying-details-of-his-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Jussie Smollett Tears Up as He Shares Horrifying Details of His Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jussie Smollett<\/a><\/strong> is opening up about the homophobic, racist attack that led to his hospitalization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shortly after arriving in\u00a0Chicago from New York in the early hours of Jan. 29, Smollett was walking when two unknown offenders approached him and gained his attention by yelling out racial and homophobic slurs towards him. The offenders began to batter Smollett\u00a0with their hands about the face and poured an unknown chemical substance on\u00a0him.<\/p>\n

During the attack, one of the offenders wrapped a rope around Smollett’s neck. The offenders later fled the scene and Smollett was self-transported to Northwestern Hospital.<\/p>\n

Smollett told the police in an interview that his assailants yelled “MAGA country” during the attack. The Chicago Police Department confirmed this information and told E! News in a statement, “In the initial reports there was no mention of MAGA. When detectives followed up with [Smollett] later in the day, he recalled the offenders making those comments and detectives completed a supplemental report.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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On Good Morning America<\/em> on Thursday, Smollett sat down with Robin Roberts<\/a><\/strong> for his first interview since the attack.<\/p>\n

“I’m pissed off,” Smollett told Roberts, talking about the criticism he has received from doubters of the attack. “It’s the attackers, but it’s also the attacks. You know, at first it was a thing of, if I tell the truth, that’s it, because it’s the truth. Then it became a thing of like, oh, how can you doubt that? How do you not believe that? It’s the truth. And then it became a thing of, oh, it’s not necessarily that you don’t believe that this is the truth, you don’t even want to see the truth.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Smollett then took Roberts through the attack, describing how he went out to get food after returning home from New York because he didn’t have anything to eat at his place.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“There’s a level of pride there.” @JussieSmollett<\/a> says he waited to call police because as a gay man, he did not want to be seen as “weak.” https:\/\/t.co\/b5efiP0JCG<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/zosV9Ni78H<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Good Morning America (@GMA) February 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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When asked why he hesitated to call the police after the attack, Smollett teared up as he told Roberts, “There’s a level of pride there. We live in a society where, as a gay man, you are considered somehow, to be weak, and I’m not weak. I am not weak. And we, as a people, are not weak.”<\/p>\n

Smollett also talked to Roberts about the image that was released of\u00a0two people of interest.<\/p>\n

When asked if he believes the two people in the image could be his attackers, Smollett said, “I do…’cause I was there. For me when that was released, I was like\u00a0OK, we are getting somewhere. I don’t have any doubt in my mind that that’s them. I never did.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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