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Taraji P. Henson dons Jenny Packham dress in NYC... after commenting on Jussie Smollett scandal .Henson # Taraji P. Henson donned a chic black Jenny Packham dress while promoting her new film The Best of Enemies at the Whitby Hotel in Manhattan on Sunday. The 48-year-old Oscar nominee commented on her onscreen Empire son Jussie Smollett, who pleaded not guilty Thursday to 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for allegedly staging a hate crime on himself January 29. When asked directly by Fox 32 Chicago on Sunday about the troubled 36-year-old's scandal and his character Jamal Lyon being written off, Taraji stated: 'We're strong. I'm strong. And that's all I can say.' Taraji P. Henson donned a chic black Jenny Packham dress while promoting her new film The Best of Enemies at the Whitby Hotel in Manhattan on Sunday It was a much colder response than Henson gave the Today show on February 4 when she said of Smollett: 'Jussie is love, that's who he is. That's all he knows...I just told him to walk in his truth.' Last Wednesday's episode of the Fox soap opera - titled 'My Fault Is Past' - only drew 4.4M total viewers, which was down 13 percent, according to