Now, however, one of the final episodes of Empire ever may be rewriting history about what happened to land Cookie in jail for all those years.
When Empire launched back in 2015, one of the central premises was that Cookie was getting out of jail after 17 years following a conviction for drug charges.
According to Carol with the series winding down, she and Candace had something to do with what really went down.
Although Lucious had a hand in Cookie going behind bars, she was guilty of drug dealing.