The Truth About Jussie Smollett?
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This documentary follows the years long legal battle involving actor Jussie Smollett who, in 2019, reported to police that he was attacked near downtown Chicago by two masked men. The film revisits the night of the reported attack and interviews the key players involved, including Smollett, the Osundairo brothers, Chicago investigators, and more. The reverberations of the incident have lasted years, and the complicated nature of the case was the reason that director Gaga Rehill wanted to reexamine it. “I hope to let the viewer sit, watch, and grapple with whichever truth they interpret from what they see,” the director says. “And, most importantly, to consider the nature of truth itself in our ever-increasingly polarized society.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Psych Legal Pop podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Brooke Brigham, I'm the attorney. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. |
| 0:15.0 | And today we are going to be talking about the Netflix documentary, The Truth About Jesse Smollett. |
| 0:22.3 | You want to start with like a high picture, high level, 30,000 foot? |
| 0:27.1 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:28.1 | I mean, I think my guess would be, unless you've been living under a rock, my guess is you've |
| 0:32.5 | heard of this case and have, you know, been following it, whether it's a little bit or a lot. |
| 0:39.9 | But, you know, the truth about Jesse Smollett is basically the story of what happened that night, |
| 0:45.7 | what the aftermath was. |
| 0:48.1 | And in this documentary, they really, I mean, Jesse, we get him, we get the two brothers. |
| 0:54.3 | We get that were, that claim that this was a fake attack. |
| 0:58.5 | We get the police chief. |
| 1:00.5 | We get, right? |
| 1:01.1 | We get everybody. |
| 1:02.2 | We really do. |
| 1:03.1 | And so I think that's what's interesting about this one is like we're hearing all of these thoughts and feelings from the people. |
| 1:09.0 | And so I think it gives you a good idea of, |
| 1:12.0 | so what do you, you know, |
| 1:12.9 | so I think the documentary sort of leaves it to us. |
| 1:15.4 | Like, what do you believe? |
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