Jussie Smollett is back.

The actor sat down in an Instagram Live conversation with author and activist Marc Lamont Hill, where he spoke out about the controversy surrounding his alleged 2019 attack.

Jussie said the situation has been “frustrating, to say the least.”

“It’s been beyond frustrating, and I certainly am not going rogue,” he said about publicly commenting on the case. “I’m still taking the advice of my attorneys and everything like that, but I don’t really see, honestly, what staying quiet has really done, like, where it has gotten me. … It’s so much bigger than me.”

Jussie was indicted in March 2019 with 16 counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false report claiming two men attacked him on January 29, 2019, while spewing racist and homophobic slurs.

He claims he never lied to police about the incident, but authorities later claimed he had staged the attack to draw attention to himself.

In February, he pleaded not guilty to a six-count indictment but has consistently denied any wrongdoing.

“They won’t let this go,” Jussie said in the conversation. “It doesn’t matter — there is an example being made. And the sad part is that there’s an example being made of someone who did not do what they are being accused of.”

He later addressed claims that he orchestrated the alleged hate crime as a hoax for attention, saying, “From the very, very beginning, it was set up to seem like I was lying about something or everything.”

“There would be no reason for me to [set this up],” he said, adding, “this is bulls–” and the “last thing” he wants to do is “be portrayed as a victim.”

Watch the full exchange below: