In her upcoming memoir, Constance reportedly alleges that a disturbing incident occurred with a 'Contemporary Off The Boat' producer.
Constance Wu alleges that she was sexually harassed by a senior manufacturing member at Contemporary Off the Boat. In keeping with The New York Occasions, the Loopy Wealthy Asiansmagnificence, 40, is making the claims in her forthcoming memoir Making a Scene. In a single jarring incident whereas at a sporting occasion, the newspaper stories, he allegedly “positioned his hand on her thigh, his hand finally grazing her crotch,” and she or he then requested him to cease. HollywoodLife reached out to ABC for remark however has not but acquired a response.
“Contemporary Off the Boat was my first-ever TV present,” she mentioned. “I used to be thrown into this world. I don’t have dad and mom within the trade. And since I used to be 30, folks thought I knew what I used to be doing. It made me paranoid and embarrassed.” The newspaper additional reported that the producer was controlling in varied methods throughout season 1 again in 2015, doing issues like anticipating her to “run all her enterprise issues previous him and telling her what to put on.” They finally fell out after an argument, in accordance with the outlet, and stopped talking.
Per Selection, on the Atlantic Pageant on Friday, September 23, the Hustlers actress defined why she didn’t communicate up sooner. “I saved my mouth shut for a extremely very long time about a variety of sexual harassment and intimidation that I acquired the primary two seasons of the present,” she mentioned. “As a result of, after the primary two seasons, as soon as it was successful, as soon as I used to be now not terrified of dropping my job, that’s once I was capable of begin saying ‘no’ to the harassment, ‘no’ to the intimidation, from this explicit producer. And, so I assumed: ‘ what? I dealt with it, no one has to know, I don’t should stain this Asian American producer’s status, I don’t should stain the status of the present.’”
The revelations come after Constance made a heartbreaking confession in July after extreme backlash for some controversial tweets about disliking the present’s renewal again in 2019. She returned to the platform with a prolonged message concerning the debacle and the way it affected her. “I haven’t been on social media in nearly 3 years,” she wrote by way of Twitter on July 14. “Tbh, I’m somewhat scared, however I’m dipping my toe again in to say I’m right here and whereas I used to be gone I wrote a e book known as Making a Scene. This subsequent half is tough to speak about…however I used to be afraid of coming again on social media as a result of I nearly misplaced my life from it.”
She went on to elucidate that her “ill-timed” sentiments needed to do with “one other venture I used to be actually captivated with.” She additionally apologized, writing that the tweets had been “not good, and I'm sorry for that.”