Jussie Smollett has entered right into a rehab therapy facility … TMZ has confirmed with a rep from Smollett’s camp.
The rep tells us, “Jussie has had an extremely difficult past few years. He has quietly been working very hard for some time now and we are proud of him for taking these necessary steps.”
Smollett’s rehab stint comes amid his ongoing enchantment in his Chicago legal case. As we have reported, Jussie was found guilty of mendacity to cops about an alleged assault again in 2019 the place he claimed two masked Trump supporters attacked him and put a noose around his neck.
3/16/22
Fox 32 Chicago
Jussie was sentenced to 150 days in jail for the incident, however was launched from jail for his enchantment a short while after the sentence. He is been noticed engaged on movie units right here in California because the authorized course of performs out — together with a undertaking with Vivica A. Fox — the place he seemed to be directing.
JS has additionally been hanging out along with his former “Empire” costar, Taraji P. Henson, noticed on a hike in L.A. — so, he hasn’t essentially been making an attempt to put low … even hitting the BET Awards final 12 months, catching a bit of flack from of us who have been shocked to see him attend.
Although we do not know precisely what he is getting handled for … drug use was talked about fairly a bit throughout his trial. The Osundairo brothers — who claimed Jussie employed to be his attackers — took to the stand to say they have been additionally his sellers … they usually supplied him with illegal substances for him on quite a few events.