Sharing her tale. Constance Wu is opening up about her rocky revel in starring on Fresh Off the Boat — including her criticized reaction to the display being renewed for a 6th and final season.

“The news took us all by means of surprise. After learning about the show’s renewal on Twitter, I called my supervisor and he too was once surprised,” Wu, 40, recalls in her new memoir, Making a Scene, about the moment in 2019 when the ABC sitcom was picked up for another yr.

“Because of my studio contract, I’d need to drop everything else — all the exciting jobs that the network had given us permission to pursue — and return to FOTB. The recent get started I’d seemed forward to must wait,” the Hustlers big name writes in the book, which is out on Tuesday, October 4. “I hung up the phone. Suddenly, the whole lot I’d held back for so long flooded the environment. My emotions were overwhelming, a tsunami crashing through my frame — betrayal, helplessness, like they’d lied to me. I had saved my head down and tolerated the discomfort for so long, trying to preserve the whole thing for everyone else, and I simply couldn’t do it anymore.”

At the time, Wu took to social media to specific her frustrations — “so dissatisfied at this time that I’m actually crying” — and recalls that the “backlash was once fast,” with folks flooding the remark phase to name her an “ungrateful bitch.”

After the controversy made headlines, Wu says she “apologized to the rest of the cast, crew, producers, writers, and executives at the first desk learn of the season,” calling it one in every of the “bravest” issues she’s ever executed.

“Then there used to be the schadenfreude that always follows a big social media scene,” she explains. “Seeing anyone who was always so practiced lose regulate—used to be entertainment. I changed into a headline, a meme, a springboard for righteous opinion. An ungrateful girl creating a scene. I stopped having a look at all social media, but I couldn’t get away.”

The Virginia native, who wanted to dive deeper into her craft after taking part in an “easy and pleasant” persona on a sitcom for see you later, stocks in her memoir that being on a mainstream comedy used to be initially a “soft spot” for her whilst to begin with taking the activity.

FOTB, which showcased the lives of an Asian-American circle of relatives in Florida in the ’90s, ran from 2015 to 2020 and starred the Golden Globe nominee alongside Randall Park.

Wu’s persona, Jessica Huang, was a mother — and 10 years older than Wu herself, which the Terminal List superstar refers to as a devastating “blow” to her “vainness” at the time.

Portraying the personality, however, ended up being the least of the Crazy Rich Asians celebrity’s issues throughout her time on the show. Beyond “filming five days every week, 12-plus-hour days” and constant press that left her “tired,” Wu was also a victim of sexual attack from one in all the show’s manufacturers, she claims.

While the actress alleges that she made a “feeble” try to inform her costars all over the filming of season 2, the Eastsiders alum was scared that her tale wasn’t “dangerous enough” to “benefit my feelings.”

“What was once I supposed to mention? That he complimented my smooth skin and shared harmless little jokes with me and careworn me to sign with considered one of the most sensible companies in Hollywood and touched me over my denim jean shorts?” she writes. “And did it even count if maximum of it came about when I was off the clock? I felt like a sizzling, engorged tomato in a microwave: already thin-skinned to begin with and then permeated in all places via invisible poisonous waves … able to burst at any second.”

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While Wu explains that she “by no means went to HR, never reported it,” no one “encouraged” her to both. After seeing folks she had opened as much as about the attack percentage “affection” along with her assaulter, Wu reveals she would “retreat to my trailer to weep.”

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