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Constance Wu Opens Up About ‘Traumatic’ Sexual Harassment She Experienced While Working On ‘Fresh Off The Boat’

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In a candid interview, Constance Wu opened up about facing “sexual harassment and intimidation” during her time on “Fresh Off the Boat”, which she starred in from 2015 to 2020.

At the time, Wu did not come forward with her allegations against one of the show’s senior producers because she wanted to protect the ABC sitcom and the impact it had on the Asian American community. READ MORE: Constance Wu Tells ‘Tonight Show’ Viewers About Her Baby Daughter’s ‘Little Blue Butt’ Now, while speaking with The Atlantic to promote her memoir Making a Scene, which details a past situation with the producer, Wu, 40, recalls the fear she faced over the unknown consequences, had she chosen to then speak up. “My publisher really encouraged me to write [about] it … I was like, ‘No I’m done with that chapter in my life,'” the actress said during the interview on Friday. “And then I eventually realized it was important to talk about because I did have a pretty traumatic experience and nobody knew about it because that show was historic for Asian Americans. “It was the only show on network television in over 20 years to star Asian Americans, and I did not want to sully the reputation of the one show we had representing us,” Wu explained. “I kept my mouth shut for a really long time about a lot of sexual harassment and intimidation that I received the first two seasons of the show.” After the first two seasons, “Fresh Off the Boat” became a “success” and Wu was “no longer scared of losing [her] job.” “That’s when I was able to start saying ‘no’ to the harassment, ‘no’ to the intimidation, from this particular producer,” she continued. “And, so I thought, ‘You know what?

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