Jussie Smollett has been the topic of headlines for 2019 following the roller-coaster saga of his alleged hate crime. While he has been laying low since the February 2019 incident, in which he was accused of staging a hate crime against himself, the former Empire star recently resurfaced to respond to a troll on Instagram.

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The disgraced actor hopped into The Shade Room's comments to defend himself from a comment that claimed his alleged attack is connected to the reportedly fake story of a Virginia teen being bullied because of her dreadlocks.

"Jussie really is a trendsetter," the commenter wrote.

"With all due respect brother, y'all can clown me all you want but my story has actually never changed and I haven't lied about a thing," he replied. "Y'all can continue to be misinformed, internalized sheep, who believe what actual proven liars feed you or you can read the actual docs. Either way, I'mma be alright. I know me and what happened. You don't. So carry on. All love."

Take a look at the exchange, below:

Though all charges against Smollett have been dropped in connection to the incident, he is currently still engaged in a legal tug of war with the city of Chicago, which filed a $130,000 lawsuit against him to recover the money that was spent investigating the alleged attack.