Constance Wu says she faced sexual harassment and intimidation from an unnamed senior producer during the first two seasons she worked on ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat. The actress opened up about the allegations while speaking at an event on the eve of her memoir, Making a Scene, from Simon & Schuster. Wu says the publisher encouraged her to open up about her experiences on Fresh Off the Boat, although she was resistant to the idea.
Set to release her memoir Making a Scene on October 4, Wu has been opening up about harassment allegations she made in the chapter titled “You Do What I Say” while on the press tour of her upcoming book from Simon & Schuster. While speaking at The Atlantic Festival 2022 on September 23, Wu called her experiences on the Fresh Off the Boat set “traumatic.”
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“I kept my mouth shut for a really long time about a lot of sexual harassment and intimidation that I received the first two seasons of the show,” Wu said on Friday, September 23, during an interview on stage at The Atlantic Festival in Washington, D.C. “Once it was a success, once I was no longer scared of losing my job, that’s when I was able to start saying ‘no’ to the harassment, ‘no’ to the intimidation, from this particular producer. And, so I thought: ‘You know what? I handled it. Nobody has to know. I don’t have to stain this Asian American producer’s reputation. I don’t have to stain the reputation of the show.'”
“I eventually realized it was important to talk about,” Wu continued.
Constance Wu Attempted Suicide in 2019
Earlier this year, Constance Wu returned to Twitter so that she could promote Making a Scene. At the same time, she revealed that she attempted suicide in 2019 following the backlash to her tweets expressing frustration over Fresh Off the Boat’s renewal when she tweeted, “So upset right now that I’m literally crying. Ugh. F—” and “F—ing hell.”
While speaking at the event in D.C., Wu also opened up about the 2019 controversy, saying: “I wanted to have a fresh slate where I didn’t have to start a show with all these memories of abuse. A few people knew [the harassment] was happening, and to go to work every day and see those people who knew that he was sexually harassing me being ‘buddy-buddy’ with him felt like a betrayal every time. 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.”
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