Jussie Smollett's Empire Co-Star Taraji P. Henson Compares Him To Emmett Till As Family Rallies Support
perezhilton.comJussie Smollett‘s friends, co-stars, and family members are showing him support in the days following his prison sentence.
Of course, as we previously reported, the 39-year-old actor was sentenced last week to 150 days in jail followed by probation for his role in staging his own hate crime in late January 2019, and filing a false report with the Chicago police.
Now, his Empire co-stars and others are coming forward to show support for the star amid his ordeal. Related: Jussie Defies His Own Lawyers To Give Rare Interview — And Claims He Was ‘Set Up’ In a post published on Instagram this weekend, Taraji P.
Henson shared her dismay at her Empire co-star’s five-month-long prison sentence. In the post, the Empire lead compared Jussie’s plight to that of Emmett Till, a black teenager murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, alleged that he’d whistled at her in a store.
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