Simu Liu Opens Up About Making Peace With His Parents After Fraught Relationship

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Simu Liu’s life is an open book now that he’s written a memoir, the recently published We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Story.

In an excerpt published in People, the “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” star gets candid about the efforts he’s made to repair what he describes as a pretty terrible relationship with his parents.

It was during his teen years in particular when the cultural differences between his traditional Chinese-Canadian parents and his own experience as the child of immigrants came to the forefront, which led him to join a boy band, date girls and stay out late. READ MORE: Simu Liu Thanks Ex-Employer For Firing Him: ‘I Could Finally Begin To Build A Life For Me’ When his grades began slipping, it led to screaming matches and corporal punishment. “I remember thinking, ‘I’ve got the worst parents in the world.’ I felt so alone,” he adds. “Nobody could understand what I was enduring at home.” It wasn’t until he graduated from Western University’s Ivey Business School and then landed an accounting job that his parents became visibly proud — something that evaporated when he was fired months later and decided to embark on a career as an actor.

As he writes, it was his landing his career-making role in CBC sitcom “Kim’s Convenience” that led to a turning point. “We weren’t fighting, but at the same time we hadn’t collectively chosen to dive back into our trauma and how we were all individually affected by it,” he writes, recalling how he decided to lay out everything he was experiencing in a heartfelt letter he wrote to his mother. READ MORE: Simu Liu Wanted To Begin His Career By Being A Contestant On A Reality TV Dance Competition  “It was eight pages, and I remember being so