‘Empire’ co-creator Lee Daniels ‘beyond embarrassed’ he initially supported Jussie Smollett

For Lee Daniels, co-creator and executive producer of the hit “Empire,” it was not embarrassment at star Jussie Smollett’s allegedly fabricated hate crime attack that got him so much as the sense of betrayal.

“I’m beyond embarrassed,” Daniels told New York magazine’s Vulture in a recent interview....