Taye Diggs believes his friend Jussie Smollett should be able to return to “Empire” for its last season, even though the Fox show’s creator Lee Daniels has already said it won’t be happening.
During an interview on Black Hollywood Live‘s “Inside The Black Actor’s Studio” podcast, which dropped on Monday, Diggs expressed his support for the 37-year-old Smollett following the major scandal earlier this year that saw him indicted on 16 felony charges.
“I have no idea what people are going through. And to be honest, it’s kinda none of my business,” said Diggs, who guest-starred on Empire” between 2016 to 2017.
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“He is a good friend of mine. I love him. He’s, he’s only done right by me. So you know people go through things,” said Diggs, known for his roles in Broadway musicals and TV series like “Private Practice.”
“It doesn’t change who he was and who he is to me,” he added. “It doesn’t change, you know, the attention that we still need to pay to, you know, homophobic. Like, the people, people trip out, just because; whatever happened doesn’t mean that, that the issue that he stands for don’t still exist.”
