After a nearly three-year hiatus from social media, actress Constance Wu returned to her online platforms Thursday to share that she attempted suicide in 2019 after a series of poorly received tweets. The “Hustlers” and “Crazy Rich Asians” actress, whose memoir will be released this fall, wrote that while she was “afraid to get back on social media because [she] almost lost [her] life out of it,” she wanted to share her story to start a larger conversation with Asian Americans about mental health. After her ABC sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat” was renewed for a sixth season in May 2019, Wu appeared distraught by the news, tweeting: “So upset right now I’m literally crying. Ugh,” followed by nonsense. He later said he sent the tweets “in the extreme day and didn’t have time (with) the news of the show.” But the backlash was swift and severe, Wu said in her new statement on Twitter. Countless users, including some fellow actors, criticized her for seeming ungrateful for the success of her series, which was one of the few sitcoms with an all-Asian cast in central roles. When a fellow Asian actress texted her and said she had “become a scourge on the Asian American community,” Wu said she felt she “didn’t deserve to live anymore.” She survived her suicide attempt and put her acting career on hold to focus on her mental health in recent years, she said. But now she’s returning to social media, she explained, “to share (her) story to help someone with theirs. “If we want to be seen, really seen … we must let all of ourselves be seen, including the parts we fear or are ashamed of — parts that, however imperfect, require care and attention,” she wrote. .
