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Content material warning: This submit comprises dialogue of suicide.
“Hustlers” and “Loopy Wealthy Asians” star Constance Wu is again on Twitter as we speak after a three-year hiatus to announce her upcoming memoir “Making a Scene” and discuss her tried suicide following a backlash from tweets she wrote in 2019.
In an announcement posted on Twitter, Wu referenced the tweets she shared after “Recent Off the Boat” was renewed for a sixth season: “So upset proper now that I am actually crying. Ugh.” She later clarified in one other tweet that her earlier response was in response to a tough day and was “unwell timed” with the information of the present: “I used to be briefly upset yesterday not bc I hate the present however bc its renewal meant I had to surrender one other challenge that I used to be actually enthusiastic about.”
But she continued to obtain many messages from followers and actors calling her ungrateful. “I felt terrible about what I would stated, and when a couple of DMs from a fellow Asian actress instructed me I would turn into a blight on the Asian American neighborhood, I began feeling like I did not even should reside anymore.”
Wanting again now, Wu says, “it is surreal that a couple of DMs satisfied me to finish my very own life, however that is what occurred. Fortunately, a pal discovered me and rushed me to the ER.”
After that, Wu determined to take “somewhat break from Hollywood” to deal with her psychological well being.
— Constance Wu (@ConstanceWu) July 14, 2022
Within the tweet, Wu writes that Asian People “do not discuss psychological well being sufficient. Whereas we’re fast to have a good time illustration wins, there’s lots of avoidance across the extra uncomfortable points inside our neighborhood.”
This is the reason she wrote her e book, “and why I am right here as we speak — to achieve out and assist individuals speak concerning the uncomfortable stuff to be able to perceive it, reckon with it, and open pathways to therapeutic.”
“If we need to be seen, actually seen. . . . We have to let all of ourselves be seen, together with the elements we’re scared or ashamed of — elements that, nonetheless imperfect, require care and a focus,” she writes. “And we have to cease beating one another (and ourselves) up once we do.”
Her forthcoming book comes out in October and comprises essays about her upbringing and the way she “made it” in Hollywood.
When you or a cherished one are experiencing suicidal ideation or are in danger, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline has a number of sources and a 24/7 lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
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