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Constance Wu tweeted today after a three-year break from social media, and she’s opening up about her attempting suicide following the backlash she received over comments she made about the sixth-season renewal of her ABC series Fresh Off the Boat.
“I haven’t been on social media in almost 3 years,” she wrote on Thursday. “Tbh, I’m a little scared, but I’m dipping my toe back in to say I’m here and while I was gone I wrote a book called Making a Scene. This next part is hard to talk about…but I was afraid of coming back on social media because I almost lost my life from it: 3 years ago when I made careless tweets about the renewal of my TV show, it ignited outrage and internet shaming that got pretty severe. I felt awful about what I’d said, and when a few DMs from a fellow Asian actress told me I’d become a blight on the Asian American community, I started feeling like I didn’t even deserve to live anymore. That I was a disgrace to AsAms, and they’d be better off without me. Looking back, it’s surreal that a few DMs convinced me to end my own life, but that’s what happened. Luckily, a friend found me and rushed me to the ER.”
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— Constance Wu (@ConstanceWu) July 14, 2022
On May 10, 2019, Wu tweeted that she was “so upset right now that I’m literally crying” following the Season 6 renewal of the ABC series. She subsequently said that she had been misunderstood and was upset that the renewal meant that she had to give up another project.
Wu played the mother, Jessica, on Fresh Off the Boat, created by Nahnatchka Khan and based on the memoir by Eddie Huang. The 2015-20 ABC series followed the Huang family — Mom, Dad, three young brothers, and their Mandarin-speaking grandma — who move from Washington,
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her return to Twitter earlier this month, Constance Wu returned to her Instagram account to introduce her fans to a special project she made during her break. «While I was off the grid recovering, I took a little break from my acting career. But during that time I did do a couple select small projects with people I love and trusted. was one of those projects,» Wu captioned her Tuesday post.
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Constance Wu admitted she attempted suicide in 2019 after she received backlash over her reaction to "Fresh Off The Boat" being renewed. Wu reacted negatively to the news of the renewal, which caused people to criticize the actress.
Crazy Rich Asians actor returned to Twitter yesterday (July 14) to announce her new book and explain her break from acting in the last three years.Wu explained that after she received backlash for tweeting about her frustration that her sitcom Fresh Off the Boat had been renewed, she attempted to take her own life.“I was afraid of coming back on social media because I almost lost my life from it: three years ago, when I made careless tweets about the renewal of my TV show, it ignited outrage and internet shaming that got pretty severe,” Wu began in her post.pic.twitter.com/7YScJ4Pvig— Constance Wu (@ConstanceWu) July 14, 2022“I felt awful about what I’d said, and when a few DMs from a fellow Asian actress told me I’d become a blight on the Asian American community, I started feeling like I didn’t even deserve to live anymore. That I was a disgrace to AsAms [Asian Americans], and they’d be better off without me.“Looking back, it’s surreal that a few DMs convinced me to end my own life, but that’s what happened.
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Constance Wu returned to social media after nearly three years on Thursday to announce her new book, and to speak out about attempting suicide as a result of the backlash she endured following a Twitter fiasco surrounding 's renewal in 2019. After ABC renewed the Asian-led comedy for a sixth season in May of that year, Wu posted a series of explicit tweets expressing her frustration and disappointment over the pickup.«I was afraid of coming back on social media because I almost lost my life from it: [Three] years ago, when I made careless tweets about the renewal of my TV show, it ignited outrage and internet shaming that got pretty severe,» the 40-year-old actress wrote in a lengthy letter posted on Twitter. «I felt awful about what I'd said, and when a few DMs from a fellow Asian actress told me I'd become a blight on the Asian American community, I started feeling like I didn't even deserve to live anymore.
Making a Scene, and reflect on what led to her hiatus from both social media and Hollywood. “I was afraid of coming back on social media because I almost lost my life from it,” Wu writes.