Constance Wu feared being fired if she complained about harassment | Leisure

Constance Wu was “scared” of dropping her job if she reported the sexual harassment she allegedly skilled on the ‘Recent Off the Boat’ set.

The 40-year-old actress just lately that she was harassed by a producer on the sitcom however she felt her ordeal was “fairly frequent” and never “that unhealthy” compared to different conditions she had confronted.

Talking on ‘Good Morning America’, she stated: “I used to be frightened of dropping my job, and in comparison with the opposite tales of the harassment I endured, it ‘wasn’t that unhealthy.’ The truth is, to be sincere, what I went by way of was fairly frequent.”

The ‘Loopy Wealthy Asians’ star “repressed” her ache as a result of her alleged abuser was Asian American and “such a very good proponent for Asian American points” that she did not “wish to deliver him down.”

She added: “It actually was a battle for me, as a result of I didn’t wish to stain the status of the one present Asian People needed to symbolize themselves.”

However by the ABC present’s second season, the actress “made him livid” when she started to show down his “inappropriate requests” and he or she has not spoken to him since then.

In 2019, Constance famously sparked a backlash when she tweeted about how “upset” she was that ‘Recent Off the Boat’ had been renewed for a fifth season and he or she admitted the alleged harassment was one of many explanation why she was prepared to maneuver on from the present.

She stated: “I’d gotten these different jobs that I used to be actually enthusiastic about and I used to be prepared for a clear slate.

“I used to be able to cease working at a spot that held so many reminiscences of sexual harassment and disgrace and concern. So once I came upon that I couldn’t transfer on, I felt — truthfully, in that second, I felt betrayed and I felt lied to.”

Whereas the actress acknowledged her tweet was “reckless,” “graceless” and “dramatic,” she does not really feel the backlash she acquired was truthful.

She stated: “The backlash was speedy. There was an enormous pile on. I used to be basically cancelled for coming off as ungrateful, and probably the most painful factor of all was that it was actually the Asian American group that both ostracised or averted me probably the most.

“Do I believe the proportion of the hatred and the cancellation pitted at me was equal to the quantity of error I did? No.”

Constance was left feeling suicidal after receiving DMs from one other Asian actress who “shamed” her “to the purpose of me pondering that I wanted to finish my very own life.”

She added: “She principally stated I had turn into a blight on [the] Asian American group, and nothing I might ever do would make up for the harm I’d achieved to the group. That I used to be like, a shame. And it made me really feel like Asian People really feel like it will be higher if I simply didn’t exist.”