The past few days haven’t been particularly good ones for Smollett in court. He admitted to cocaine-fueled trysts with one of the attackers, the attackers continue to claim he paid them to do it, and no one seems to believe his story that it was a race-based attack.

Then another problem cropped up. His text messages, which were evidence being read in court, were so full of racial slurs that Smollett had to ask the prosecutor to stop saying the N-word while quoting his text messages and instead abbreviate the word. Read more