Constance Wu Says She Was Sexually Harassed By Producer: He ‘Grazed Her Crotch’

Constance Wu alleges that she was sexually harassed by a elder accumulation subordinate at Fresh Off the Boat. According to The New York Times, the Crazy Rich Asians beauty, 40, is making the claims successful her forthcoming memoir Making a Scene. In 1 jarring incidental portion astatine a sporting event, the paper reports, helium allegedly “placed his manus connected her thigh, his manus yet grazing her crotch,” and she past asked him to stop. HollywoodLife reached retired to ABC for remark but has not yet received a response.

Constance Wu astatine ‘The Terminal List’ premiere successful Los Angeles connected June 22, 2022. (Shutterstock)

“Fresh Off the Boat was my first-ever TV show,” she said. “I was thrown into this world. I don’t person parents successful the industry. And due to the fact that I was 30, radical thought I knew what I was doing. It made maine paranoid and embarrassed.” The paper further reported that the shaper was controlling successful assorted ways during play 1 backmost successful 2015, doing things similar expecting her to “run each her concern matters past him and telling her what to wear.” They yet fell retired aft an argument, according to the outlet, and stopped speaking.

Per Variety, astatine the Atlantic Festival connected Friday, September 23, the Hustlers actress explained wherefore she didn’t talk up sooner. “I kept my rima unopen for a truly agelong clip astir a batch of sexual harassment and intimidation that I received the archetypal 2 seasons of the show,” she said. “Because, aft the archetypal 2 seasons, erstwhile it was a success, erstwhile I was nary longer frightened of losing my job, that’s erstwhile I was capable to commencement saying ‘no’ to the harassment, ‘no’ to the intimidation, from this peculiar producer. And, truthful I thought: ‘you cognize what? I handled it, cipher has to know, I don’t person to stain this Asian American producer’s reputation, I don’t person to stain the estimation of the show.’”

A inactive from ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ (Everett)

The revelations travel aft Constance made a heartbreaking confession successful July aft terrible backlash for immoderate arguable tweets astir disliking the show’s renewal backmost successful 2019. She returned to the level with a lengthy connection astir the debacle and however it affected her. “I haven’t been connected societal media successful astir 3 years,” she wrote via Twitter connected July 14. “Tbh, I’m a small scared, but I’m dipping my toed backmost successful to accidental I’m present and portion I was gone I wrote a publication called Making a Scene. This adjacent portion is hard to speech about…but I was acrophobic of coming backmost connected societal media due to the fact that I astir mislaid my beingness from it.”

She went connected to explicate that her “ill-timed” sentiments had to bash with “another task I was truly passionate about.” She besides apologized, penning that the tweets were “not nice, and I americium atrocious for that.”