Constance Wu Reveals She Was Committed to a Mental Hospital After 'Fresh Off the Boat' Twitter Backlash

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Constance Wu's Twitter controversy landed her in the psych ward. In her new memoir, , the 40-year-old actress details the fallout of her 2019 tweets that lamented the season 6 renewal of her ABC sitcom, .In her memoir, Wu explains that «the numbers pointed to cancellation» when season 5 wrapped, noting that «the last episode of the season had been written to function as a series finale» and that the original showrunner was set to depart.Given all of that, Wu claims, her team asked ABC if she could pursue other projects. «While they didn’t make any promises, they gave us their blessing to do so,» Wu writes. «Cancellation became a foregone conclusion.»But then, Wu's film, , became a box office smash.«People started to wonder: Would the network really cancel when had been such a success?

When everyone was talking about the dearth of Asian American representation in Hollywood?» she writes. «But numbers being numbers, I still thought the show would be canceled.»So when she found out on Twitter that the show was renewed for a sixth season, Wu was taken «by surprise.»«Because of my studio contract, I’d have to drop everything else — all the exciting jobs that the network had given us permission to pursue — and return to ,» she writes. «The fresh start I’d looked forward to would have to wait.»Wu's tumultuous time during the show meant that its renewal left her with «overwhelming» feelings, «a tsunami crashing through my body.»«I had kept my head down and tolerated the discomfort for so long, trying to preserve everything for everybody else, and I just couldn’t do it anymore.

I needed to put my feelings somewhere other than my own body, which was at capacity,» Wu writes. «I didn’t think about the lack of context, didn’t care how.