Constance Wu Says Simu Liu Apologized After Mocking Her At A Gala To Honour Asian Individuals

Constance Wu is opening up about being mocked in public for her controversial tweets. On the newest episode of “Crimson Desk Speak”, the 40-year-old actress claimed that, on the 2019 Unforgettable Gala, which got here months after she practically tried suicide, she was mocked by host Simu Liu for her tweets bemoaning the renewal of “Contemporary Off the Boat”.

ET has reached out to Character Media, who placed on the gala, and Liu’s rep. Wu stated on “Crimson Desk Speak” that the occasion’s organizers weren’t conscious of her close to suicide try on the time, and added that Liu supplied her “a honest apology” after the alleged incident.

“I’ve been punished and mocked,” Wu stated of the backlash to her tweets. “There was an occasion a number of months later… they do that gala yearly for Asians and so they needed me to return, ’trigger they needed to rejoice the present and the youngsters on the present.”

Wu was hesitant to attend the occasion — the place “FOTB” was being honoured with the Lexus Legacy Award, which acknowledges the Asian and Pacific Islander leaders who’ve fought for API presence within the arts, leisure and tradition — as a result of there was “a lot controversy” round her on the time.

“If I am going, individuals are simply going to wish to discuss in regards to the tweets. I like my youngsters on the present a lot. I need this to be a second for them to rejoice,” she recalled saying on the time. “Additionally, I informed them, ‘I don’t need anyone to make enjoyable of it, as a result of I’m nonetheless in a really uncooked place about it. I’m not able to be mocked for it.’”

“They didn’t know I had a suicide try, however I expressed that I can’t take care of that,” Wu continued. “They promised me. They stated, ‘No, no, no. We love Constance! It’ll solely be heat power and constructive vibes in direction of her.’ So I used to be like, ‘OK. OK. I’ll go.’”

When she arrived, Wu claimed she was seated “within the entrance row and had all these cameras on me.”

“Inside 10 minutes, the host of the present made a crack at me,” Wu alleged of Liu. “I used to be sitting there alone, making an attempt to not cry in a public setting. The entire viewers was like, ‘Ohh, s**t!’”

Whereas video of the second doesn’t seem like accessible on-line, on the time, Deadline reported that, throughout his opening monologue, Liu “took a playful jab” at Wu “that referenced her a lot talked-about response to the ABC sitcom being renewed.” The outlet additionally famous that “the joke obtained loads of raised eyebrows and ‘oooooohs’ from the viewers.”

“They’d promised they wouldn’t mock me, and so they did it proper off the bat,” Wu alleged. “It virtually felt like they have been setting me up for it. It actually felt like a betrayal from the Asian American group. A pair months previous to that, I used to be within the emergency room.”

Afterwards, Wu stated that Liu “did the proper factor and he apologized,” including that “it was a honest apology.”

Wu’s interview got here amid the discharge of her memoir, Making a Scene, by which she goes in depth about her controversial tweets and the following scandal. That backlash included a DM from a former co-star that stated partly “that nothing I may ever do would make up for my atrocious conduct and disgusting ingratitude,” Wu writes.

“That’s how I ended up clutching the balcony railing of my fifth-floor house and staring wildly down on the NYC avenue beneath with a reckless despair so complete that my physique ceased being a physique and have become a sound so dangerously high-pitched it was like nails on a chalkboard or a violin string pulled tight sufficient to chop flesh,” Wu writes. “The sound coursed by me and out of my fingertips like electrical energy as I began pulling myself over the railing.”

A pal “pried” Wu from the balcony edge and took her to the psychiatric ER of a psychological hospital. The entire expertise, Wu writes, “made me lastly get assist.”

When ET spoke with the actress on the premiere of her newest movie, “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile”, she opened up about writing her memoir.

“I write about loads of various things and any individual simply asking ‘How are you?’ or ‘Are you OK?’ is absolutely necessary,” she stated. “I believe an enormous theme… is how laborious therapeutic is, and the way youngsters have massive feelings, and you’ll want to allow them to categorical it, and discover a solution to take care of it. That’s one of many overarching themes [of the book], which I believe this film is about as nicely.”

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