Constance Wu shares details about her attempted suicide

Actor Constance Wu opened up about her suicide attempt in a tearful conversation on Jada Pinkett Smith’s show “Red Table Talk,” divulging what led to the

Actor Constance Wu opened up about her suicide attempt in a tearful conversation on Jada Pinkett Smith’s show “Red Table Talk,” divulging what led to the incident.

In the interview, released on Oct. 5, Wu went into detail about her experience as the matriarch in ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” which included alleged sexual assault by a producer, online backlash for speaking about the show’s renewal and her suicide attempt in 2019.

Wu said messages from another Asian American actor calling her a “blight on the Asian American community” amid the backlash she received for tweeting her disdain for the season six renewal were “the straw that broke the camel’s back.”

“I read these DMs from an Asian actress, somebody who should have been my ally. And I felt like nothing I could ever do would be enough,” she said in the interview. “I felt like the only thing that would prove to her that I felt as bad as she thought I deserved to feel would be if I died.”

Constance Wu talks about the importance of saying 'I don't know'June 17, 202205:36In her new book, “Making a Scene,” Wu recounted how she climbed up to the ledge of her fifth floor New York City apartment building with a blanket after reading those DMs with the plan to jump. She said a friend came to check on her, climbed over the ledge and took her to a psychiatric emergency room.

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