Jussie Smollett’s 2019 Attack Gets Investigated in Upcoming Netflix Documentary: Watch the Trailer

Netflix has released a trailer for the streaming giant’s The Truth About Jussie Smollett? documentary, which is set to uncover all angles of the alleged January 2019 attack against the Empire actor in Chicago.

Jussie Smollett has maintained his innocence in the case, as the debate of whether or not the incident was a hoax or a hate crime has continued in the more than six years since the incident.

“The villains are the two people who assaulted me, the Chicago Police Department and, if I may be so brave, the mayor,” Smollett told Variety on Wednesday (Aug. 13). “We’re living in a world where the higher-ups, their main mission, in order to do all of the underhanded things that they’re doing, is to distract us with the shiny object.”

The doc invites various members of law enforcement, journalists, lawyers and investigators to uncover every angle of the case with one goal in mind: to find the truth about what happened on Jan. 29, 2019.

Smollett claimed he was the victim of a hate crime executed by two men who tied a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him while screaming things like “MAGA” and hurling racial and homophobic slurs at him.

“Some things kind of struck me as a little odd,” said former Chicago Police Department superintendent Eddie Johnson in the trailer. “We were going through the polar vortex at the time. Who is out in the street with it being cold out there?”

Smollett is then shown sitting down for an interview, but the clip ends without revealing what he has to say.

The actor was found guilty by a jury in 2021 on five felony counts of disorderly conduct for a false police report. He was sentenced to 150 days in jail but served only six days before being released on bail.

Smollett also reached a settlement with the city of Chicago to pay $50,000 to the Building Brighter Futures Center for the Arts in May. His conviction was ultimately overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court in November.

Watch The Truth About Jussie Smollett? trailer below.