Constance Wu Says She Attempted Suicide After Facing Backlash for ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Tweets in 2019
usmagazine.comSharing her story. Constance Wu is opening up about the criticism she faced after the 2019 renewal of her show Fresh Off the Boat, revealing she contemplated suicide amid the backlash.“Hi everybody.
I haven’t been on social media in almost 3 years. 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,” the Crazy Rich Asians actress, 40, began in a lengthy statement shared via Twitter on Thursday, July 14.
All other posts on her account appeared to be deleted.Wu told her followers that her experience online was “hard to talk about,” explaining why she was so hesitant to return to the platform. “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,” she continued. “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.
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