The “Hustlers” and “Crazy Rich Asians” actress, whose memoir will be released this drop, published that even though she was “afraid of coming back on social media because [she] almost lost [her] life from this, ” she desired to share her story to start a wider conversation with Asian Americans about mental health.
After her DASAR sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat” had been renewed for a 6th season in May 2019, Wu appeared distraught by the news, tweeting , “So upset at the moment that I’m literally crying. Ugh, inch followed by expletives. The lady later said that she sent the twitter posts “on the pumps of rough time & were sick timed (with) the news of the show. ”
But the backlash was swift and severe, Wu said within her new statement on Twitter. Numerous users, including some many other actors , criticized her for seeming ungrateful about the success of her collection, which was one of not many sitcoms with an all-Asian cast in main roles. When a fellow Asian actress messaged her and stated she had “become a blight around the Asian American community, ” Wu said she felt like she “didn’t deserve to live anymore. ”
She survived her suicide attempt and paused the girl acting career to focus on her mental health over the last few years, the girl said. But she actually is returning to social media today, she explained, “to share (her) tale so that it might help someone with theirs.
“If we want to be seen, really seen… we need to let all of ourselves be seen, including the parts jooxie is scared of or even ashamed of — components that, however imperfect, require care and attention, ” the girl wrote.
Wu has started again acting, recently appearing in the Amazon Prime series “The Fatal List” alongside Philip Pratt, and she celebrities in the upcoming little one’s film “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” with Javier Bardem.