Constance Wu Says She Attempted Suicide After Her Fresh Off the Boat Tweets Stoked Ire

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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. “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.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.When Wu’s ABC sitcom was renewed for its sixth and final season in 2019, she reacted to the news in a series of since-deleted tweets, writing, “So upset right now that I’m literally crying.” When a fan , she responded, “No it’s not.” According to , she even replied to Fresh Off the Boat’s renewal announcement on Instagram with “dislike,” before deleting her comment.

Amidst backlash over her response, Wu that the renewal meant losing out on “another project that I was really passionate about” due to scheduling conflicts.

Wu now says she “felt awful” about her remarks—“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.