Empire‘s Jussie Smollett appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show (airing today, March 9, 2015) to talk about his character Jamal, the hit Fox show, and his sexuality.
Coming out publicly for the first time, the gorgeous actor-singer poignantly spoke to Degeneres after their interview, one-on-one.
Degeneres asked Smollett, “We saw that particular scene that was a couple weeks ago your character comes out and what’s happened since your character came out on the show. How are you? What’s happening in your life?
Smollett replied candidly,, but rather vaguely
“What’s happening in my life, it’s been great. You know I get some ignorant tweets every once in a while you know, and I know you’re not supposed to respond, but sometimes you got to clap back! You know what I’m saying. By all means my Mother, who’s in the back right now, she’s absolutely an activist. And I’m a firm believer that people cannot get away with murder although I love “How to get away with murder.” But you cannot allow people to just spew hate and be ok.”
