Jussie Smollett left the Leighton Criminal Court building Thursday looking as stoic and defiant as ever, despite being found guilty of staging a fake hate …
Jussie Smollett left the Leighton Criminal Court building Thursday looking as stoic and defiant as ever, despite being found guilty of staging a fake hate crime three years ago. When Smollett is sentenced next month, prosecutors said they plan to emphasize his bizarre turn on the witness stand, in which he lied for “ hours and hours and hours ” about how two Trump-loving bigots beat him up, tied a noose around his neck and doused him in bleach. But far from showing remorse that might sway the judge in his favor, Smollett,39, has continued to dig in his heels and told his attorneys to appeal the verdict. Experts say that stubbornness is among the textbook signs of narcissistic personality disorder that Smollett seems to exhibit — and which may have been exacerbated by growing up in an unusual family bubble. “When someone launches someone like this, there’s a grandiose assumption they’ll be able to get away with it,” Dr. Ramani Durvasula, a clinical psychologist and expert on narcissism, told The Post.
