The brothers paid by Empire actor Jussie Smollett to carry out a staged attack on him have broken their silence in a bombshell interview - set to air days after the Empire star sought to clear his name by appealing a guilty verdict arrived in 2021. If you enjoyed this short article and EVDeN evE naKLiYaT you would like to obtain even more details concerning EVDeN Eve NaKLiYAT kindly see the web-page.
Smollett paid Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo $3,500 to stage the January 2019 attack on the streets of Chicago as an apparent hate crime, evDen EVe NaKliYat in a shameless bid to coax sympathy from the public.
The plot came to light after the brothers, a pair of aspiring actors from Nigeria, confessed the mugging was a hoax after nearly two days in a Chicago lockup.
Now speaking for the first time, they slammed Smollett as a 'crazy fraudster' who paid them for the ambush so he could be heralded as a 'poster boy for activism.'
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As part of a five-part docuseries, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo broke their two-year silence on the staged attack, and Evden Eve naKliYaT how they were paid by the actor to carry it out
Smollett was convicted of five counts of disorderly conduct for lying to police about being the victim of a racist, EVDEn eVe NAkLiYAT anti-gay attack he said was perpetrated by Trump supporters.
Police said Smollett cut his own cheek to make it look like he had suffered injuries in the attack
They revealed they decided to take up Smollett's bizarre offer to beat him up because they thought he would, in turn, help their career.
Speaking about how the actor consistently lied and tried to play innocent after the hoax, the brothers told : 'Insane.
That's when I really saw a different side of Jussie. Like, dude, really? This is when I knew that this dude was like a super villain.'
The brothers revealed they met their then-friend Smollett an hour before carrying out the staged attack - and the actor later hung them out to dry when his web of lies began to unravel.
Both Osundairo brothers said they now feel 'betrayed' by the actor, who attempted to saddle them with the blame during subsequent hearings in court.
The pair slammed the Empire actor as a 'crazy fraudster' who 'to this day, has not come out to say the truth'.
'I thought he was a good actor, but I also thought this guy was a fraud,' said Amibola of Smollett's continued attitude toward the incident, which has remained unchanged since his 2021 trial.
'This guy is really just sitting her, lying to these people.
Lying through his teeth, and not caring,' he said, referencing how Smollett 'even shed a tear' during a now widely seen interview with ABC News in which he denied the attack was a hoax.
Calling the actor 'crazy' for his continued devotion to the ruse, Amibola admitted that he feels betrayed by Smollett for not embracing his guilt, and taking the fall as he and his brother were forced to do
'I did feel betrayed by Jussie and what he had done.
I didn't know what to do - I wasn't ready to say anything. Like, I was mute. And I didn't want to say anything.