Jussie Smollett takes the stand in his own defense
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CHICAGO — Jussie Smollett testified Monday that he did drugs at a bathhouse and made out with one of the two brothers accusing him of staging a hate crime against himself.
The former “Empire” television star, 39, described meeting Abimbola Osundairo, when called to the stand by his defense at his trial on charges that he staged a hate crime against himself in January 2019 and lied to police about it.
“We were in a club, you go to the bathroom, go to a stall, do a bump, do a bump and then just kind of keep going in and then we went to the bathhouse,” Smollet said.
While at the bathhouse Steamworks in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood, the pair went into a private room, where there was gay pornography on the screens, Smollett said.
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