Jussie Smollett's past legal issues mentally prepared him to take on special 4 of Special Forces: World's Toughest Test. "I certainly would think that I have, over the last years ... been forced to become mentally stronger, in a way," Smollett, 43, exclusively tells Us Weekly ahead of the Special Forces season 4 premiere on Thursday, September 25. Smollett adds that he became stronger in a sense that he can "not be as affected" as he once was by the public's opinion of him.