Family members of Jussie Smollett claim they have received harassing and threatening phone calls since the actor began serving five months of jail time for staging a hate crime hoax in 2019.
Smollett's defense team released a statement on Monday that said Jussie's siblings started getting "bombarded with phone threats" on Friday, the morning after the former Empire actor checked into the Cook County Jail."The morning after Jussie checked into the jail, his sibling who’s [sic] phone number is his emergency contact started being bombarded with phone threats about harm that would be done to Jussie in the jail," the statement said.
"Hi, this is n***** lives matter. I hope what they do to that guy in jail..here's what they're going to do, alright? They're going to take a broom handle and take that little f*****, shove it in there, and he's going to go [makes groaning noises]," the male voice said laughing before ending the call.
"That's scary. The question then becomes is that a guard? Is that an inmate calling? Is it not a a prelude into something more serious about to happen?" said Nenye Uche, Smollett's attorney.
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