Constance Wu to Open Up About Being ‘Canceled’ for Tweets, Sexual Harassment Claims on ‘Red Table Talk’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comEmily 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.
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