{"id":86935,"date":"2022-10-04T18:44:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/constance-wu-explains-fresh-off-the-boat-tweets-reveals-producers-abuse\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T18:44:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:44:57","slug":"constance-wu-explains-fresh-off-the-boat-tweets-reveals-producers-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/constance-wu-explains-fresh-off-the-boat-tweets-reveals-producers-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Constance Wu Explains &#8216;Fresh Off the Boat&#8217; Tweets, Reveals Producer&#8217;s Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articlebody\">\n<p>In an emotional interview with Seth Meyers on Monday, Constance Wu provided new context for her controversial 2019 tweets about <em>Fresh Off the Boat<\/em>&#8216;s renewal, alleging that a producer&#8217;s harassment was behind her dismay with the show&#8217;s pickup.<span id=\"more-1234883415\"\/><\/p>\n<p>When ABC renewed <em>Fresh Off the Boat<\/em> for Season 6 in May 2019, Wu was publicly unhappy with the decision;  when a fan tweeted that the pickup was \u201cgreat news,\u201d Wu replied, \u201cNo it&#8217;s not.\u201d  At the time, Wu also tweeted, \u201cF\u2014king hell\u201d and \u201cSo upset right now that I&#8217;m literally crying.  Ugh.  F\u2014k.\u201d  She later said her posts were \u201cill-timed\u201d and that she was actually \u201cso grateful\u201d that the comedy would be coming back for another season.  One day later, she further clarified that she was disappointed because the renewal meant she&#8217;d have to pass on \u201canother project I was really passionate about.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"c-related\">\n<h3 class=\"c-heading\">RELATED STORIES<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Constance Wu Opens Up About Having to Work with Her Abuser\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KiDf6g6iPpI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Monday&#8217;s episode of <i>late night<\/i>though, Wu explained that her disappointment with the show&#8217;s renewal was largely due to sexual harassment and emotional abuse she says she&#8217;d experienced at the hands of a <i>Fresh Off the Boat<\/i> producer, whom she has declined to name.  In her new memoir <i>Making a Scene<\/i> (released today), Wu alleges that the producer repeatedly demonstrated controlling and harassing behavior, including telling her to send him selfies and gatekeeping her business decisions;  front <i>late night<\/i>Wu also referenced the producer&#8217;s \u201cinappropriate touching, the telling me to wear short skirts, the intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Wu told Meyers, the producer&#8217;s abuse was mostly kept to <i>Fresh Off the Boat<\/i>&#8216;s first two years on the air, after which she \u201cfelt a little bit of job security\u201d and \u201cstarted saying no,\u201d which allegedly \u201cinfuriated\u201d the man in question.  Not wanting to \u201cstain the reputation of [<i>Fresh Off the Boat<\/i>] or of this producer,\u201d Wu stayed silent publicly about the experience, but she said her tweets about the show&#8217;s pickup were ultimately an outlet for her frustration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I was never able to really be myself on set, because I&#8217;d see my abuser being buddy-buddy with everybody else, knowing what he had done to me,\u201d she shared.  \u201cThe thing I learned is that bad feelings and abuse don&#8217;t just go away because you will it to.  It&#8217;s going to come out somewhere.  People didn&#8217;t understand the context of those tweets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for not making fun of [the tweets], because it led me to a really dark time,\u201d an emotional Wu continued to Meyers.  (In July of this year, the actress divulged that the intense backlash she&#8217;d received for her tweets led her to attempt suicide.) \u201cI decided to include [the tweet controversy] in the book because I think it&#8217;s important that we engage in curiosity and empathy before we go straight to judgment.  Because if somebody does something out of character for them, it usually means something&#8217;s going on in their life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Watch Wu and Meyers&#8217; full conversation in the video embedded above.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=228932107161302\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an emotional interview with Seth Meyers on Monday, Constance Wu provided new context for her controversial 2019 tweets about Fresh Off the Boat&#8216;s renewal, alleging that a producer&#8217;s harassment was behind her dismay with the show&#8217;s pickup. When ABC renewed Fresh Off the Boat for Season 6 in May 2019, Wu was publicly unhappy &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/constance-wu-explains-fresh-off-the-boat-tweets-reveals-producers-abuse\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Constance Wu Explains &#8216;Fresh Off the Boat&#8217; Tweets, Reveals Producer&#8217;s Abuse<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":79014,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/constance-wu-says-she-was-controlled-sexually-harassed-by-senior-fresh-off-the-boat-producer\/","url_meta":{"origin":86935,"position":0},"title":"Constance Wu says she was controlled, sexually harassed by senior &#8216;Fresh Off the Boat&#8217; producer","date":"September 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Constance Wu alleges that a senior producer controlled and sexually harassed her while working on ABC's \u201cFresh Off the Boat.\u201dWu 40, opened up about, the she made in her book \u201cMaking a Scene\u201d ahead of its release with The New York Times. 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