Constance Wu Says She Was Sexually Harassed by ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Senior Producer

girl, pls, no one forgot that tacky tweet u made

Is this the one who tried using her suicide attempt for rebranding purposes? Gurl, bye.

[quote]“‘Fresh Off the Boat’ was my first-ever TV show,” Wu told the Times. “I was thrown into this world. I don’t have parents in the industry. And because I was 30, people thought I knew what I was doing. It made me paranoid and embarrassed.”

This is blatantly untrue.

She was a cast member of Eastsiders, which was a TV show.

[quote] “‘Fresh Off the Boat’ was my first-ever TV show,” Wu told the Times. “[bold]I was thrown into this world.[/bold] I don’t have parents in the industry.

So what she's saying is that she was somehow FORCED to appear in this sitcom in a leading role. She didn't want to do it, but they somehow THREW her into doing it.

Who the fuck is going to believe that??

She's just making it worse for herself. She sounds nuts.

it is suspicious when they don't name names, they didn't call it out when it happened or in close proximity... and if true, leaving other people vulnerable. . . especially when so many from that show had no qualms in playing every card in the deck against other shows, individuals, the industry as a whole.

But it's common trait among minority shows...even in a post harvey world, too many afraid of losing work - not from backlash but the trickle down of associated projects and future opportunities.

they benefit more by not rocking the boat.

Does she do anything now except make allegations and respond to allegations?

How about attracting attention by doing some work?

She's managed to take a hit TV show and a hit movie (Crazy Rich Asians) and somehow turn it all into a big pile of crap.

This bitch is a perpetual victim. Yawn.

Wasn’t she canceled already

She’s going to be on an upcoming Archetypes podcast. She and the Overseas Duchess will no doubt bond over their victimhood.

Someone flunked Self-Awareness 101.

r7 crazy, rich asians is still happ happ w/ a plan trilogy

[quote] girl, pls, no one forgot that tacky tweet u made

What did she tweet?

R7 the movie she did with Jlo was a hit after crazy rich asians

She's not nuts, but she is despised.

It's always something with this bitch.

when her show "fresh off the boat" was renewed, she tweeted an expletive filled post, implying this show's renewal inconvenienced her filming schedule, ignoring her other cast member needing this paycheck

R14, sure it was a BIG HIT!

A big hit for Academy Award Nominated Jennifer Lopez.

But, no…no, not for Wu.

This bitch is insufferable. She's really trying to make herself look vulnerable and make people forget her childish behaviour a few years ago.

What "initial" did she give? Because she said he was Asian, and there were only 4 Asian producers on that show, listed below. And of those 4, only "Nahnatchka Khan" was an executive producer, which would be considered a "senior" level producer, as per her.

Eddie Huang

Nahnatchka Khan

Jeff Chiang

Aaron Ho

She's a cunt.

I read the headline and figured the producer was probably Asian. I was right. If he'd been White, instead of complaining, she'd be dating and/or married to him.

The career that wasn’t has turned to this.

DRAMA, DRAMA, DRAMA.

Watch your back, Bai Ling. There’s a new cluster B on the prowl.

And the roof!

"I kept my mouth shut for a really long time". That's not how you give head, er, get ahead in Hollywood.

The initial she gives is M, R20.

She is a very compelling actress but my goodness, it’s nothing but drama with her.

This whole perpetual victim thing is really kinda over so I don’t really know what she’s doing here.

This linked article references M too. It could be Justin McEwen if she’s given a real initial.

"I kept my mouth shut for a really long time" until I could concoct a story that would allow me to take advantage of the #metoo movement, try to make people forget I acted like a spoiled brat a few years ago that torpedoed my promising movie career, and allow me to play victim yet again.

[quote] Academy Award Nominated Jennifer Lopez.

r18 Damn straight!

Here ya go.

Can someone tell us what she tweeted snd the childish behavior she displayed?

From the IMDB list of producers on the show, there is a producer named Melvin Mar who is Asian-American based on his pic. I’m gonna go with him since he is a double M.

I cast you in Eastsiders as my hag YEARS before Fresh Off the Boat!

I will not be ERASED!

(Honey, get a shot of my ass right now for Instagram.)

Kudos to Randall Park staying classy through all her meltdowns and not saying a word. He's a great actor and was probably relieved to be done working with her. The show could've easily run several more years.

The tweets are in the linked article.

R33, did you not see R31?

She's got a book coming out. Gotta get some attention.

I still don’t understand her tweets. Did she really threaten suicide?

r32 read r17, the tweet was a simple F-word

Vee, who’s in the biz, knew about this and never said anything! WTF!!

Well, I believe her. When I applied for my second job (as a fry cook at a G.D. Ritzy's), the manager withheld hiring me until I provided him with snapshots of myself smoking a cigarette with my anus. I felt so harassed, but I was no Ann Romano from "One Day at a Time", so stupidly I complied. He laughed at me and said he only hired kids who told him to fuck off because he liked their moxie. I still feel the deep shame to this day, but I imagine he's died by now.

Name them. Expose them. Enough with this passive-aggressive shit.

More slant slit seeking attention. She should be grateful she’s on set not sowing cheapo garments in some sweatshop in Bugland.

Of course I believe her. Who would be surprised by such stories!! Its Hollywood, baby. It however doesn’t change the fact that she’s a cunt.

What is it with Asian people and the name “Connie?” I don’t know any white women under the age of 75 named Connie.

Really?

I feel bad for her. She did all of that work to make it in Hollywood, and she's consistently sabotaging herself. He was right, she should've gone to that Asian film festival even if she was exhausted. And seriously every time she looks at a camera she seems pissed. Why would any studio have confidence that she is marketable to the public after every blunder? Like she needs to hire a new PR team, especially if she did this thinking it would win any sympathy. He touched her leg at a basketball game? Grazed her crotch? Obviously he isn't going to be as warm and flirty after he found out you weren't into him, but she has no story or proof of actual retaliation.

I remember this article from a few years ago, shortly after her Twitter debacle. I couldn’t help but laugh when she and her acting coach discuss being a plant or animal for certain roles. She was a squirrel in Hustlers, btw.

“I don’t have parents in the industry.” As much as it can seem like everyone in the “industry” does have “parents in the industry,” most do not. That’s Constance showing her hand, once again.

I was molested.

JLo wasn’t nominated for an Oscar

Another slant eye giving the side eye for attention.

r52 Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!

lots of people in entertainment who are reading this going "yup, Melvin probably behaved like this." Weird dude. Smart but off. Prone to yelling. But very social. This kind of thing hits socially connected people a lot harder because he knows hundreds of people up and down the industry--studios, agencies, management companies, talent, producers. all of them are going to read this, have an opinion about it, have to decide if they want to take his calls or do business with him anymore.

he may not be able to work in the industry. If he was willing to do this to the star of a network show, wait for more women to come forward.

[quote]the movie she did with Jlo was a hit after crazy rich asians

But you nailed it, no one thought "Hustlers" anything but a JLo movie and Awkwafina was the break out star of "Crazy Rich Asians".

[quote]A big hit for Academy Award Nominated Jennifer Lopez.

Who now?

Speaking of boat, can we put this bitch and that Jameela Jamil person on a leaky one and set them adrift?

I did not expect a GD Ritzy’s reference in the Connie Wuwu thread.

Millennial women of color don't understand how affirmative action worked for them. They benefited from a lower barrier to entry, but still were meant to work for what they wanted like everyone else (including men of color) - be it a career, fame and love of the people, sports greatness, or political power.

Instead, they very publicly combust when everything else isn't handed to them. It's phenomenal to see.

White millennial women too- but they don't self immolate, they call the manager. Their entitlement is off the charts.

[Quote] and Awkwafina was the break out star of "Crazy Rich Asians".

I thought it was Henry Golding.

I agree that it was Awkwafina. Henry is beautiful and likable but he’s kind of dull.

r61 r62 a couple older went that path, too.

Southern charm is a lost art. . . but popular with any industry/field that requires social finesse and walking the line between gentleman/lady and cunt/prick

I was reminded of Lucy Liu that made the mistake of asking for too $much$ , too soon. . . pissed off the public and then proceeded to crash and burn.. it didn't quite end her but it severely altered her star trajectory.

[Quote] I was reminded of Lucy Liu that made the mistake of asking for too $much$ , too soon. . . pissed off the public and then proceeded to crash and burn.. it didn't quite end her but it severely altered her star trajectory.

How/when did she piss off the public?

r65 When she fired Samantha Jones.

She is adorable on screen and fairly compelling. She could have had a great career but she shot herself in the foot by being a bitch.

Velly disturbing awugations.

Maybe they shouldn’t be hiring new immigrants to produce TV shows until they are familiar with our culture and ways.

As an Asian, I can say with confidence that she is not a attractive person.

^Agree. And she has resting bitch face.

Ask her what’s the ‘Ancient Chinese Secret.”

She wants to act like she is such a fighter for the Asian American community but instead very publicly complained when her show, the only fully Asian American sitcom, was renewed.

Is this 'Constance Wu' trying to channel Constance Bennet or Constance Collier?

Calling someone “fresh off the boat, is quite racist, she should really check herself, people have been cancelled for way less.

Yes, R75, to say that someone has arrived fresh of the boat its obviously a shameful insult to that person.

How is the word 'compelling' used for her? She's a nothing actress. She should join with Katherine Heigl for a lifetime movie

R66 you're absolutely right. A crime against humanity.

She rlly killed her career off with her nasty attitude. She thought she was fucking meryl streep for having one hit movie, like girl Hollywood is racist and here you are acting like a white actress.

White actresses can’t get away with complaining either.

The career is soaring...

No one cares

She's insufferable - she's not nearly as irreplaceable as she thinks.

She's also really looking her age - 40 - these days. Back in Crazy Rich Asians, she could pass (barely) for the same age as Golding (35 now). She now clearly looks like she's hit 40.

[quote]She wants to act like she is such a fighter for the Asian American community but instead very publicly complained when her show, the only fully Asian American sitcom, was renewed.

She's claiming that her complaints about the renewal were because of the sexual harassments that she was allegedly getting from the producer. I call bullshit on it. The incident with bitching happened in 2019, two years after MeToo started. In 2016, before MeToo she was bitching up a storm on social media about jokes Chris Rock made at the 2016 Oscars. It's interesting how she had the ability to bitch out Rock and ABC over dumb jokes, yet when MeToo started she kept quiet about the sexual harassment she was supposedly getting.

I do think some of the stories of sexual harassment and assault are true. But, I think are some cases of women exploiting it or making up shit as revenge. Several months ago, I was reading a series of articles on Mother Jones' website about bad bosses. These were all anonymous stories given to a reporter. Anyway, there was one story from a woman who she said she was a nurse at hospital somewhere in Texas and for the past two years she mostly worked in covid wards or ICU. She stated that the hospital was paying traveling nurses more than her and other nurses. At one point, a manager she was working under got fired for job performance. She claimed that the replacement was a guy in his early 30s who starts hiring attractive female nurses and then the guy starts making comments that he wouldn't say in front of other people. In the article, she claims that she went into the guy's office to get candy and that he joked to her that he was the only thing she could snack on. The other incident she claimed was that while she was pregnant, management had to find people to cover for her while she was at appointments etc and that the manager went and put her hand on her stomach and made comments about how he found coverage for her and her baby.

In the article, the nurse claims that she tried block things out because she was dealing with PTSD from covid and was somehow grateful that her supposed asshole manager helped her getting people to cover for her when she was pregnant and needed to take time . Eventually, the bad manager gets fired and she claims that he was sleeping with some of the nurses. There were a lot of things that were vague as fuck in the article. She claimed that people were scared to say anything about the manager. The nurse said she left that hospital after not getting raises and then she gets job at another hospital where she's being paid $90 an hour and gets additional $1,200 per week for food and living expenses. Something about her story seemed like bullshit or embellishments. I really fucking hated how Mother Jones which I used to like was posting parts of the story about her getting additional support for food and living expenses when many Americans just get their fucking paychecks and no additional money for food or living expenses. The nurse in the article seemed to have a lot of bitterness towards traveling nurses making more than her and I just got the feeling she embellished a lot of things for "revenge" and she figured her anonymous story with Mother Jones would be fine and dandy. I wonder if Mother Jones ever tried to look around Pacer or other sites which might show if any kind of sexual harrasement lawsuits were filed against that hospital.

Who is Mr Wu?

R84 you sound bitter

90% of those in show business are a little crazy.

I ignore their dumb private lives.

Love Crazy Rich Asians but she’s not very good in it. And looks too old for the part. Completely unmemorable in the JLo movie. Who on earth would want to read her book?

Yesterday she was on 'The View' and almost had the whole panel crying over her story about 'victimhood'. She somehow tried to blame her infamous Tweet over the fact that she didn't want to return to the show because it hurt her emotionally, from what she went through the first few seasons with the sexual harassment. She then said another Asian actress suggested everyone would be better off without her living (or something like that) so that's when she decided to listen to her and try to suicide.

Sunny Hostin - former prosecutor - should have found all the holes in her story and should have questioned her. But she just dabed her eyes and seemed to believe everything she said.

She needs to change her name to Constance Boo-Hoo!

Bear King News: Hollywood producer is a sleazeball.

Five years from now: Constance Wu is offering Mah Jongg lessons at her studio apartment in Reseda.

Yesterday in an interview on WNYC, she said the rape was done quietly and gently in bed. Not all rapes are forced with women fighting back.

[quote]Yesterday in an interview on WNYC, she said the rape was done quietly and gently in bed. Not all rapes are forced with women fighting back.

Wait, what?

Now she's claiming to have been raped? Didn't she state she was sexually assaulted and harassed? Assault and sexual harassment can mean many things, a woman can be touched inappropriately and, verbally, be subjected to non-stop disgusting sexual innuendo.

Why was she even in bed with a man she claimed to have assaulted and harassed her for years. Something doesn't add up.

I had no idea she was raped.

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile gets a nice review

R94 reading is fundamental. The rape was a guy she went on a date with, years before she was famous

She must have really kissed ass to Mindy Kaling to get cast as Daphne in that upcoming Velma series.

I don't believe a word she says about anything. I happen to know she's a shit-stirring cunt from way back and used to cause no end of problems even when she was a nobody during the Eastsiders days.

R46, I knew a Chinese-American Constance in college who's around the same age as Wu. Your comment is making me wonder if that was a common name for millenial Chinese girl babies.

She had to kiss ass for supporting cartoon role?

She's going to be on Celebrity Jeopardy this Sunday.

Just watched that interview with Connie Chung. Her voice was grating. Definitely going for sympathy after being canceled for that infamous text. You reap what you sow

Connie Chung was born Constance too! I swear that must be a popular name choice for girls in Chinese American families.

What’s up with her hair and makeup? Hideous

It's been years since I've watched King of the Hill. Were the Asian neighbors Chinese? The daughter's name was Connie.

R105 they were from Laos

So...

Pretty much every woman I know has been sexually harassed, sexually abused or sexual assaulted.

And pretty much every time a woman talks about it, “we can’t be sure”.

Women lie but men lie more.

Why do none of her co-stars or colleagues stick up for her or defend her?

R109, the lack of support from anyone she’s ever worked with is GLARING. I’ve no opinion on the harassment stuff but it’s very clear she’s an asshole.

That's what I thought r110. If I recall correctly, Gemm Chan was LIKING tweets that painted Wu in a negative light around the time Wu whined about the show being renewed.

Yeah, Chan liked one scathing tweet about her personality (I think it was about Wu's on-set behavior), then unliked it when it blew up. Otherwise, vast silence.

Constance has a rep for being a total bitch in the industry. Randall is beloved, and I fucking love Awkwafina- I'm so glad Randall and Nora (Awkwafina) are successful.

R113 do go on

It's rather telling that, despite Crazy Rich Asians being a massive hit, the sequels are still in development.

Her publicist has decided to go with the "deflect with sad stories" strategy to rehab her image? Bad and over used strategy. See also: Chrissy Teigen and her alcoholism, infertility and pregnancy loss later retconned to abortion woes.

I can't even muster feeling sorry for Constance because I find her so unlikeable and fake.

Happy for Randall. Hope his new sitcom does well.

She was terrible in CRA. So absolutely flat. I was really surprised by the praise.

Blockbuster looks cute.

Who Wu?

Of course it was nearly a decade ago.

Maybe he didn’t like being called “senior” and was just getting back at her for her ageism?

Her former co-stars probably want to wash their hands and keep moving on their careers.

Constance is being VERY chatty on Celebrity Jeopardy.

Yeah, well I was raped. Over and over in my life.

[quote] Why do none of her co-stars or colleagues stick up for her or defend her?

I have noticed that too. The only Fresh off the Boat co-star who seems to have an ok relationship with her is Hudson Yang. Hudson's father Jeff recently stated that Constance mentioned something about harassment on the set several years back. But, it's still telling that Randall Park, Lucille Soong, Chelsey Crisp, and Ray Wise who played the adult characters on the show haven't defended her. This ET article mentions Wu admitted in her book that she displayed childish behavior towards Randall and Chelsey.

Her-co stars from Crazy Rich Asians don't defend her either. Is she friends with any of her castmates from Hustlers?

She's a cunt, that's why.

To Constance Wu,

Thanks for Everything!

Julie Newmar

She should change her name to Helen and start from scratch!

I love Randall Park.

[Quote] Is she friends with any of her castmates from Hustlers?

I really doubt it, JLow and Lili are both known assholes. Keke seems chill so i can't see her wanting to put up with Constance.

I've worked with Keke, and she probably would call her on her bullshit, and/or then put her on ignore.

R132, is Keke as awesome as she seems? If it’s even close, that’s a win.

r133, yes, I adore her. Very no nonsense, great sense of humor, very street smart, hard worker, brings her mom everywhere. If there's a word/concept/whatever she doesn't understand, she'll ask immediately what it is, rather than pretend she knows what it means.

Yes! I love that!! Thanks.

Park was great in a recurring role on VEEP.

We read her tweet. It was bitchy as hell.

It's kind of late to ask for forgiveness...almost like she's had three years to come up with an excuse.

Yeah, like anyone would want to R her.

I always had the hots for Randall

What was the play she had to drop out of?

I've worked with Randall too- very quiet, very observant, and an extremely dry sense of humor. He sort of acts like a bemused professor, but I think it's a ruse.

She should change her name to Constant Woe. What a drama 👑

Constance Wu is a WHORE!

Her crocodile tears won’t work on me

r144 What about her Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile tears?

I just preordered the new Constance Wu book!