Smollett was freed from the Cook County Jail on Wednesday night. He served just six days of his 150-day sentence. As he recuperated on Thursday, social media erupted with memes and jokes.
Actress Taraji P. Henson compared Jussie Smollet s case, who was sentenced to 150 days in jail and 30 months of probation, for staging a hate crime, to the one of lynching victim Emmett Hill, 14, in 1955.
Empire actor Jussie Smollett says he was handed a heftier jail sentence because he is black and that he made sure to mention he is not suicidal in court in