Jussie Smollett’s legal troubles aren’t over and just as the appeals court was ready to rule on his conviction for faking a hate crime he has entered Rehab.
According to FOX Jussie Smollett entered an outpatient program for undisclosed reasons.
“He’s been wanting to go to rehabilitation and deal with life in a significant and thoughtful way,” a source told Fox News Digital.
Smollett’s legal team filed an appeal in his 2021 staged hate crime conviction earlier this year and argued his “renewed prosecution” violated the actor’s due process rights.
A jury found Smollett guilty of five of the six charges of disorderly conduct against him after a nearly two-week trial in 2021.
In documents obtained by Fox News Digital, Smollett’s legal team said the “circuit court judge improperly denied the defense motion for substitution of judge for cause because of his explicit bias towards Mr. Smollett, rendering every subsequent ruling and action in this case null and void.”
According to the Osundairo brothers, whose testimony was critical in convincing a jury to convict him, Jussie’s timing is peculiar.
Abimbola “Bola” and Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo tell TMZ … if Jussie really had a problem that required treatment from rehab, he could’ve checked himself in a long time ago … but he waited until an appeals court was ready to rule on his conviction for faking a hate crime.
Ola and Bola believe Jussie realizes his chances of having the conviction overturned are remote, and he may be trying to create sympathy so he serves time under house arrest and not in jail.
He was spotted Monday with a fresh haircut … clutching a “Narcotics Anonymous” book.
As we reported, Jussie was sentenced to 150 days in jail after being found guilty of lying to police about an alleged attack by 2 Trump supporters in 2019 — he was released shortly after he began serving his sentence, pending the appeal.
Since then, he’s been spotted working on set in California and even hanging out with his former “Empire” costar Taraji P. Henson.
But, Jussie’s rep told TMZ that the past few years have been extremely difficult for him … and he has quietly been working on himself in an outpatient program.
