'Empire' ratings are lowest in show's history amid ongoing Jussie Smollett controversy

The ongoing scrutiny and criticism of actor Jussie Smollett has seemingly taken a toll on the show that made him famous.

"Empire" ratings this Wednesday night plummeted to the lowest in the show's history, drawing in 3.97 million viewers, according to TVLine. For comparison's sake, 16.5 million people tuned in for the show's season 1 finale in 2015. After the Tuesday announcement that Smollett would face no legal action for allegedly staging a false hate crime, the show's writing team tweeted a sly message that was overwhelmingly poorly-received online.

"See ya'll Wednesday," the account tweeted with a winking face and a photo of a news chyron reading"Prosecutors drop all charges against actor Jussie Smollett."— Empire Writers March 26, 2019 "You should be ashamed of yourselves," one user responded, racking up nearly twice as many likes as the original tweet.

Not surprised by this news, everyone is sick of hearing about JussieSmollett and the Show EmpireWriters please FOXTV cancelempire

EmpireFOX EmpireWriters Karma for those snarky tweets lol

Well he got off without a trial and a boat load of evidence even the brothers involved said he was the mastermind behind it check in hand and all. So if empire wants to keep him on fine then Ill keep off .EmpireFOX JussieSmollett whitewashed Guess what fox Im not white

A great show thrives on the integrity of their actors.

Good to see! Don’t need anymore PC trash BS on TV!

Not surprised

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City of Chicago asks 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett to pay $130K for cost of investigationMore than two dozen detectives and police officers participated in the investigation, according to a letter the Chicago's Department of Law sent to Smollett's lawyers. The governor should just pull it from Foxx's budget. Tell City of Chicago they have too much nerve with the attention in this bs case.. they need to be solving some of the murders in that city!!! And focusing on stuff like selling body parts - likely many of the murder victims in cases they can't solve! Time for another Go Fund Me Page !
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