Constance Wu says she tried suicide after 'Contemporary Off the Boat' tweets

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After an almost three-year break from social media, actress Constance Wu returned to her on-line platforms on Thursday to share that she tried suicide in 2019 after a collection of poorly acquired tweets.

The “Hustlers” and “Loopy Wealthy Asians” actress, whose memoir might be launched this fall, wrote that whereas she was “afraid of coming again on social media as a result of [she] nearly misplaced [her] life from it,” she needed to share her story to start out a wider dialog with Asian Individuals about psychological well being.

After her ABC sitcom “Contemporary Off the Boat” was renewed for a sixth season in Might 2019, Wu appeared distraught by the information, tweeting, “So upset proper now that I’m actually crying. Ugh,” adopted by expletives. She later stated that she despatched the tweets “on the heels of tough day & had been in poor health timed (with) the information of the present.”

However the backlash was swift and extreme, Wu stated in her new assertion on Twitter. Numerous customers, together with some fellow actors, criticized her for seeming ungrateful concerning the success of her collection, which was one in all only a few sitcoms with an all-Asian forged in central roles. When a fellow Asian actress messaged her and stated she had “turn into a blight on the Asian American group,” Wu stated she felt like she “didn’t should dwell anymore.”

She survived her suicide try and paused her performing profession to concentrate on her psychological well being over the previous couple of years, she stated. However she’s returning to social media now, she defined, “to share (her) story in order that it would assist somebody with theirs.

“If we wish to be seen, actually seen … we have to let all of ourselves be seen, together with the elements we’re afraid of or ashamed of – elements that, nonetheless imperfect, require care and a spotlight,” she wrote.

Wu has resumed performing, lately showing within the Amazon Prime collection “The Terminal Record” alongside Chris Pratt, and she or he stars within the upcoming youngsters’s movie “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” with Javier Bardem.