The brothers paid by Jussie Smollett have broken their silence

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The brothers paid by Empire actor Jussie Smollett to carry out a staged attack on him have broken their silence in a bombshell interview - set to air days after the Empire star sought to clear his name by appealing a guilty verdict arrived in 2021.

Smollett paid Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo $3,500 to stage the January 2019 attack on the streets of Chicago as an apparent hate crime, in a shameless bid to coax sympathy from the public.

The plot came to light after the brothers, a pair of aspiring actors from Nigeria, confessed the mugging was a hoax after nearly two days in a Chicago lockup.

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Now speaking for the first time, they slammed Smollett as a 'crazy fraudster' who paid them for the ambush so he could be heralded as a 'poster boy for activism.'

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They revealed they decided to take up Smollett's bizarre offer to beat him up because they thought he would, in turn, help their career.

Speaking about how the actor consistently lied and tried to play innocent after the hoax, the brothers told Fox Nation: 'Insane. That's when I really saw a different side of Jussie. Like, dude, really? This is when I knew that this dude was like a super villain.'

The brothers revealed they met their then-friend Smollett an hour before carrying out the staged attack - and the actor later hung them out to dry when his web of lies began to unravel.

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