Police later charged him with making false reports after they identified and questioned two Nigerian brothers who said that Smollett had paid them to fake the attack in order to garner public sympathy.
"It was set up to seem like I was lying"
Smollett went on in the interview to claim that he was set up and that someone was making an example of him.
"It's been beyond frustrating, and I certainly am not going rogue," he said. "I'm still taking the advice of my attorneys and everything like that, but I don't really see, honestly, what staying quiet has really done, like, where it has gotten me."
Smollett continued to deny the claims that he had orchestrated a race hoax in the interview with Hill.
"They won't let this go," he said.
"It doesn't matter," he added, "there is an example being made. And the sad part is that there is an example being made of someone who did not do what they are being accused of."
He added that the last thing he wants is to be portrayed as a victim.
"From the very, very beginning, it was set up to seem like I was lying about something or everything," he claimed.
Smollett is facing charges of disorderly conduct after the first charges against him were dismissed.
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