Constance Wu Opens Up About Suicide Attempt After ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Twitter Backlash

Constance Wu returned to virtual entertainment on Thursday for the first time in almost three years to promote her new book, Making a Scene, and to express her opposition to self-destruction attempts in light of the payback she received following the debacle surrounding the 2019 revival of Fresh Off the Boat on Twitter. Wu sent out a series of clear-cut tweets in May of that year expressing her annoyance and disgust with ABC for picking up the Asian-driven satire for a sixth season.

“I feared returning via web-based entertainment since I nearly lost my life from it: [Three] a long time back, when I made reckless tweets about the recharging of my TV show, it touched off shock and web disgracing that got pretty serious,” the 40-year-old entertainer wrote in an extensive letter posted on Twitter. “I truly regretted what I’d said, and when a couple of DMs from an individual Asian entertainer let me know I’d turn into a scourge on the Asian American people group, I began feeling as I didn’t actually have the right to live any longer. That I was a shame to [Asian Americans], and they’d be in an ideal situation without me. Thinking back, it’s dreamlike that a couple of DMs persuaded me to take my own life, however that occurred. Fortunately, a companion tracked down me and surged me to the ER.”

The Crazy Rich Asians star was at the focal point of discussion in 2019 after ABC got Fresh Off the Boat for a 6th season, provoking Wu to tweet at that point: “So resentful right now that I’m in a real sense crying. Ugh. F**k.” She circled back to another tweet: “F**king damnation.” When somebody left a remark praising Wu on the “incredible news,” she answered back, expressing, “No it’s not.” Shortly from there on, Wu explained that her tweets were not characteristic of her sentiments over the sitcom’s restoration, but instead a summit of a “unpleasant day,” “poorly planned w/the insight about the show” and that the pickup implied she’d need to surrender a venture she was “energetic about.” The entertainer later apologized.

“It was a startling second that caused me to reconsider a great deal in my life,” Wu wrote in the new letter. “For the following couple of years, I set my profession to the side to zero in on my emotional well-being. AsAms don’t discuss psychological wellness enough. While we’re fast to celebrate portrayal wins, there’s a great deal of evasion around the more awkward issues inside our local area. Indeed, even my tweets turned into a subject so tricky that the vast majority of my AsAm partners concluded that was an ideal opportunity to stay away from me or ice me out. I’ll just let it out hurt a great deal, yet it likewise caused me to acknowledge that it means quite a bit to connect and really focus on individuals who are going through a difficult time.”

Wu shared that the three years from the spotlight brought her clearness and gave her an outlet to write her encounters and considerations down, bringing about her impending book that she expectations will “assist with peopling discuss the awkward stuff to figure out it, deal with it, and open pathways to mending.”

“To be seen, truly seen… we really want to let ourselves be all seen, including the parts we’re frightened of or embarrassed about – – parts that, but defective, require care and consideration. Furthermore, we really want to quit beating one another (and ourselves) up when we do,” she kept, adding that her book will not be “the most complimenting depiction, it’s pretty much as legitimate as I realize that how will generally be.”

“I’m not ready or agile or great. I’m close to home. I commit errors… heaps of them!”

Wu, who right now stars in Amazon Prime Video’s The Terminal List, likewise uncovered she’s gone to treatment throughout her break and says she feels “Sufficiently alright to wander back on [social media]” for a tad. “Despite the fact that I’m frightened, I’ve concluded that I owe it to the me-of-[three]-a long time back to be fearless and share my story so it could assist somebody with theirs,” she finished her note.