After a three-year social-media hiatus, Constance Wu has opened up about her 2019 suicide attempt
Photo: Jon Kopaloff/WireImage, . According to the actress, the attempt followed criticism of her tweets reacting to the renewal of her hit sitcom, Fresh Off the Boat, which she starred in from 2015 to 2020. After news of a sixth season was announced in May 2019, she tweeted “fucking hell” and “literally crying,” drawing outrage from fans who took her statements as being detrimental to Asian American representation.
In a statement posted to Twitter on Thursday, Wu spoke about the toll the incident had taken on her mental health. “I was afraid of coming back on social media because I almost lost my life from it,” she wrote, adding that her “careless tweets” from three years ago “ignited outrage and internet shaming and got pretty severe.” Wu said that she “felt awful” about the tweets and that she attempted suicide following the controversy.
Wu, who said she had “a lot of therapy,” went on to discuss how the experience made her “reassess” her life and focus on her mental health, an issue she said Asian Americans “don’t talk about” enough. “While we’re quick to celebrate representation wins, there’s a lot of avoidance about uncomfortable issues within our community,” she said. In her time off social media, Wu said, she wrote a book in hopes of helping people “talk about the uncomfortable stuff” and heal.
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