Constance Wu Opens Up About ‘Traumatic’ Sexual Harassment She Skilled Whereas Working On ‘Recent Off The Boat’

In a candid interview, Constance Wu opened up about dealing with “sexual harassment and intimidation” throughout her time on “Recent Off the Boat”, which she starred in from 2015 to 2020.

On the time, Wu didn’t come ahead along with her allegations in opposition to one of many present’s senior producers as a result of she wished to guard the ABC sitcom and the influence it had on the Asian American neighborhood.

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Now, whereas talking with The Atlantic to advertise her memoir Making a Scene, which particulars a previous state of affairs with the producer, Wu, 40, recollects the concern she confronted over the unknown penalties, had she chosen to then converse up.

“My writer actually inspired me to jot down [about] it … I used to be like, ‘No I’m performed with that chapter in my life,’” the actress mentioned through the interview on Friday. “After which I finally realized it was necessary to speak about as a result of I did have a reasonably traumatic expertise and no one knew about it as a result of that present was historic for Asian Individuals.

“It was the one present on community tv in over 20 years to star Asian Individuals, and I didn’t wish to sully the fame of the one present we had representing us,” Wu defined. “I stored my mouth shut for a very very long time about plenty of sexual harassment and intimidation that I acquired the primary two seasons of the present.”

I had a reasonably traumatic expertise my first couple of years on ‘Recent Off the Boat,’ @ConstanceWu says at #TAF22. “That present was historic for Asian Individuals … and I didn’t wish to sully the fame of the one present we had representing us. So I stored my mouth shut.” pic.twitter.com/fR4KJyYoKm

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 23, 2022

After the primary two seasons, “Recent Off the Boat” turned a “success” and Wu was “not terrified of shedding [her] job.”

“That’s once I was in a position to begin saying ‘no’ to the harassment, ‘no’ to the intimidation, from this specific producer,” she continued. “And, so I assumed, ‘ what? I dealt with it, no one has to know, I don’t should stain this Asian American producer’s fame, I don’t should stain the fame of the present’.”

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Elsewhere through the onstage interview, Wu addressed her “profane” and “reckless” 2019 tweet, which noticed her publicly reveal that she was “so upset” and “actually crying” over the present’s season 6 renewal. Finally, the “Loopy Wealthy Asians” star sparked controversy, which led to her practically three-year absence from social media and an tried suicide.

“I wished to have a recent slate the place I didn’t have to begin a present with all these recollections of abuse,” she advised The Atlantic‘s reporter. “Just a few individuals knew [the harassment] was taking place, and to go to work every single day and see these individuals who knew that he was sexually harassing me being ‘buddy-buddy’ with him felt like a betrayal each time.

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“I beloved everyone on that crew, and I beloved engaged on that present, nevertheless it had that historical past of abuse, that it began with, and though I dealt with it after two years, I used to be trying ahead to a clear slate,” she added.

In Wu’s memoir, she describes the producer’s behaviour as “controlling.” She recollects a 2015 incident the place the producer, whom she refers to by an preliminary, “touched her thigh and grazed her crotch,” she beforehand advised The New York Occasions about her e-book.

Making a Scene comes out on Oct. 4.