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\nJussie Smollett has a message to critics who say he doesn\u2019t deserve a second chance in Hollywood. https:\/\/t.co\/93X5vVnjyb<\/a><\/p>\n
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Some takeaways:<\/b><\/p>\n-He continues to maintain his innocence, saying he\u2019s still fighting for the truth of what happened to emerge. <\/p>\n
-\u201cI want to have all of these things in my life, and I don\u2019t want to have a felony on my record for something that I didn\u2019t do.<\/b> That\u2019s what we\u2019re fighting for. I know that on the surface it probably seems like why doesn\u2019t he just serve the time, why doesn\u2019t he just let this go. It would be easier if I had in fact done this to say that I did it. I wouldn\u2019t have spent almost $3 million of my own money. I wouldn\u2019t have had a trial.<\/b>\u201d<\/p>\n
-Apparently, he is still the victim in all this. \u201cI have a problem with letting them win on something they shouldn\u2019t be able to.<\/b> I\u2019m a grown man and something happened. I can\u2019t tell exactly what did happen, but I can tell you what did not happen. That\u2019s what I have to sit on. No matter how much people are yelling in my face, saying \u2018You\u2019re a liar, you\u2019re a liar.\u2019 No, I\u2019m not. No, I\u2019m not. I don\u2019t want them to believe that, but if that is what they believe, that\u2019s on you.\u201d<\/p>\n
-He talks some vague gibberish. \u201cSo there were those moments where I was like, \u2018Oh my goodness, my life is kind of\u2014-oh, well, I didn\u2019t do that.\u2019 And they\u2019re like, \u2018But you did this.\u2019 And I\u2019m like \u2018Ah, I did do that. I did buy that.\u2019 And there are things like that that I\u2019ve had to talk to my family about, that I\u2019ve had to talk to friends about. I\u2019m OK with accepting responsibility for things that I\u2019ve actually done. I\u2019m just not OK with accepting responsibility for things that I did not do.\u201d<\/p>\n