“I went to the Subway, got my order,” Smollett continued.
“During that time I texted my manager, thinking that he was still in Australia…
I said, Call me when you’re free to.'
And I don’t answer to Empire, my name ain’t Empire.
So I punched his a back and then we started tussling.”
“It happened so fast,” he said.
“It felt like minutes but it was probably 30 seconds.”
Smollett also cleared up some false reports that his ribs had allegedly been fractured.
“My clavicle was messed up, my ribs were bruised but nothing was cracked,” he said.
“Like, I walked into the hospital, I walked out of the hospital.”
“A lot more.
And that says a lot about the place that we are in our country.”
They called me a f, they called me a n. There’s no which way you cut it.
I don’t need some MAGA hat as the cherry on top of a racist sundae."
However, one of the biggest talking points for Smollett’s dissenters involves his phone.
So he explained, “They wanted me to give my phone to the tech for 3-4 hours.
I’m sorry, but I’m not gonna do that.”
“And, honestly, by then inaccurate, false statements had already been put out there.”
I am not weak.
And we, as [LGBTQ] people, are not weak."
“That I can tell you is horrible,” he told the press.
“I’ve seen it.
Doesn’t get worse.”
“I don’t know what to say to that,” Smollett said.
“I appreciate him not brushing over it.”
“I will never the man that this did not happen to,” he said.
Good and bad."
