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04.10.2022 - 18:57 / variety.com
Emily Longeretta Constance Wu is opening up about her 2019 tweets during which she expressed her frustration over the news that her ABC sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat” was renewed for another season. At the time, she tweeted that she was “literally crying” over the renewal because she had to turn down a passion project. “It’s actually hard for me to talk about without getting emotional. People were basically canceling me for being ungrateful and ungraceful,” the actor shares in Variety‘s exclusive sneak peek of her upcoming appearance on Facebook Watch’s “Red Table Talk,” set to drop this week. “They were saying I didn’t think of the other people’s jobs on the show, how selfish that was and how I was, like, behaving like a diva.”
As she begins to cry, Wu continues: “What people didn’t realize was that during my first couple of years on ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ I was sexually harassed, and I was intimidated, and I was threatened all the time. This producer, he is an Asian American, but because this show was sort of a beacon of representation for Asian Americans, and I sort of, became a symbol of representation, I didn’t want to sully the one show with sexual harassment claims against the one Asian American man who was doing all this better work for the community.” This isn’t the first time she’s shared her story. In July, Wu returned to social media after nearly three years to announce her new book, “Making a Scene.” In a lengthy tweet, she expressed that following the backlash over her tweets in 2019, she attempted suicide. “It’s surreal that a few DMs convinced me to end my own life, but that’s what happened,” she wrote at the time. “Luckily, a friend found me and rushed me to the ER.” In her memoir, which publishes on Oct.
Actors in Hollywood want new protections against discrimination.
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Constance Wu has opened up about what happened that made her feel betrayed by the Asian-American community.
Constance Wu has admitted it was "unsafe" for her to be alone when her mental health plummeted. The 40-year-old actress faced a huge backlash in 2019 when she expressed her disappointment that her show 'Fresh Off the Boat' had been renewed for a sixth season and she's admitted the response she received from the Asian-American entertainment community for being "ungrateful" for her success tipped her over the edge. Constance - who recently admitted part of her upset was due to trauma from alleged sexual harassment at the hands of a producer on the sitcom - told of how she received a DM from an Asian-American actress.
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Constance Wu is opening up about being mocked in public for her controversial tweets. On the latest episode of “Red Table Talk”, the 40-year-old actress claimed that, at the 2019 Unforgettable Gala, which came months after she nearly attempted suicide, she was mocked by host Simu Liu for her tweets bemoaning the renewal of “Fresh Off the Boat”.
Constance Wu is opening up about being mocked in public for her controversial tweets. On the latest episode of , the 40-year-old actress claimed that, at the 2019 Unforgettable Gala, which came months after she nearly attempted suicide, she was mocked by host Simu Liu for her tweets bemoaning 's renewal.ET has reached out to Character Media, who put on the gala, and Liu's rep. Wu said on that the event's organizers were not aware of her near suicide attempt at the time, and added that Liu offered her «a sincere apology» after the alleged incident.«I have been punished and mocked,» Wu said of the backlash to her tweets. «There was an event several months later… they do this gala every year for Asians and they wanted me to come, 'cause they wanted to celebrate the show and the kids on the show.»Wu was hesitant to attend the event — where was being honored with the Lexus Legacy Award, which recognizes the Asian and Pacific Islander leaders who have fought for API presence in the arts, entertainment and culture -- because there was «so much controversy» around her at the time.«If I go, people are just going to want to talk about the tweets.
Constance Wu is speaking about a dark period in her life.
Constance Wu is opening up about her 2019 tweets about Fresh Off The Boat which went viral after she was less than pleased about the show being renewed for a new season.
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Constance Wu's Twitter controversy landed her in the psych ward. In her new memoir, , the 40-year-old actress details the fallout of her 2019 tweets that lamented the season 6 renewal of her ABC sitcom, .In her memoir, Wu explains that «the numbers pointed to cancellation» when season 5 wrapped, noting that «the last episode of the season had been written to function as a series finale» and that the original showrunner was set to depart.Given all of that, Wu claims, her team asked ABC if she could pursue other projects.