‘It’s okay,’ he kept reassuring me, my gratitude for his forgiveness overwhelming me. “But Hudson, who played my oldest son, his face softening with so much love and forgiveness, said, ‘Hey. “Forrest and Ian seemed a little uncomfortable - probably a normal reaction for teenage boys when adults break down in front of them,” she said of how she cried through her apology. She was nervous about returning to the set, she details in the book, “not because of the public response, but because of the personal one - the cast and crew I’d worked with for more than a hundred episodes.” She wanted to apologize to her castmates, so she started with the actors who played her sons: Hudson Yang, Ian Chen, and Forrest Wheeler. ![]() I’m still learning, too.”Ī few months after the tweets, Wu went back to film the final season of FOTB. And it was through a daily, then tri-weekly session commitment to therapy that I clarified my values, learned how to allow my emotions without overwhelm, and developed better tools for managing big feelings. “Getting a new therapist wasn’t as difficult as I’d thought the retelling of stories wasn’t tiring but, well. Weeping until the exhaustion wore me out.” Wu was ultimately told she needed help, and was connected to a therapist who “worked with high-profile actresses and musicians” and understood her “unusual circumstances.” Her publicist sent her to the psychiatric ER of a mental hospital, where she spent the night “on a cot in the empty waiting room, under surveillance. “My head spinning, I realized I needed a wound to prove it, to prove that I hurt as bad as everyone said I deserved to hurt and it couldn’t be a little wound, it had to be the biggest wound in the world for it to be enough.” The constant backlash almost cost Wu her life.Ī friend found Wu after she attempted to take her life one evening and contacted Wu’s publicist asking for help. The Crazy Rich Asians star reveals in the book that even after she apologized for appearing insensitive, she couldn’t escape her tweets. “I loved everybody on that crew, and I loved working on that show, but it had that history of abuse, that it started with, and even though I handled it after two years, I was looking forward to a clean slate.” “I wanted to have a fresh slate where I didn’t have to start a show with all these memories of abuse,” Wu said in an interview with The Atlantic. She hadn’t publicly spoken about her experience because she was afraid of the repercussions. ![]() “The fresh start I’d looked forward to would have to wait.” As Wu details in her book, that fresh start was needed: she had allegedly been sexually harassed by a Fresh Off the Boat producer prior to the renewal. “Because of my studio contract, I’d have to drop everything else - all the exciting jobs that the network had given us permission to pursue - and return to FOTB,” she writes in Making a Scene. ![]() 4, the actor sheds light on what was going through her mind after she came under fire for expressing disappointment about the renewal of her sitcom Fresh Off The Boat on Twitter. In the collection of essays, Making A Scene, published Oct. Warning: This article contains mentions of suicide and sexual harassment.Ĭonstance Wu is opening up about the social media backlash she received in 2019 in a new book.
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