“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.” “I wanted to have a fresh slate where I didn’t have to start a show with all these memories of abuse,” Wu said in an interview with The Atlantic. She hadn’t publicly spoken about her experience because she was afraid of the repercussions. “The fresh start I’d looked forward to would have to wait.” As Wu details in her book, that fresh start was needed: she had allegedly been sexually harassed by a Fresh Off the Boat producer prior to the renewal. “Because of my studio contract, I’d have to drop everything else - all the exciting jobs that the network had given us permission to pursue - and return to FOTB,” she writes in Making a Scene. 4, the actor sheds light on what was going through her mind after she came under fire for expressing disappointment about the renewal of her sitcom Fresh Off The Boat on Twitter.

In the collection of essays, Making A Scene, published Oct. Warning: This article contains mentions of suicide and sexual harassment.Ĭonstance Wu is opening up about the social media backlash she received in 2019 in a new book.

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