The embattled actor's name resurfaces as Netflix’s latest documentary questions the official story and explores how distrust in law enforcement shaped public opinion.

Now, The Truth About Jussie Smollett? documentary has premiered in the 2025 Netflix schedule, while the actor is just over a month away from his return to Fox in the 2025 TV schedule for the first time since Empire. Let's start with his first big comeback of 2025: the Netflix documentary.

Just when we thought we were finally done with the whirlwind saga of the alleged 2019 hate crime against Empire actor Jussie Smollett—“whirlwind,” of course, being a reference to the shocking twist that Smollett might have been lying about the whole thing—Netflix,