Between 2015 and 2020, the Crazy Rich Asians star portrayed Jessica Huang in the ABC sitcom, which followed the Taiwanese-American Huang family in the 1990s. However, during that time, Wu faced accusations of being difficult after a Twitter outburst.

While the series received acclaim and accolades, Wu, 40, has accused an unnamed producer on the show of making her time on the show difficult due to their alleged behavior toward her over the course of the first two seasons.

“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,” Wu said while speaking at the Atlantic Festival in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

“Because, after the first two seasons, once it was a success, once I was no longer scared of losing my job, that’s when I was able to start saying ’no’ to the harassment, ’no’ to the intimidation, from this particular producer,” she went on. “And, so I thought: ‘You know what? I handled it. Nobody has to know. I don’t have to stain this Asian American producer’s reputation. I don’t have to stain the reputation of the show.’”

Calling the experience “traumatic,” Wu wrote about the alleged experience in her upcoming memoir, Making a Scene, after encouragement from her publisher to discuss her time on the show.

“I eventually realized it was important to talk about,” Wu said. “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.”

Back in 2019, Wu faced backlash on Twitter for her reaction to the announcement that Fresh Off the Boat had been picked up for a sixth season. In a series of tweets, Wu said that she was “so upset” that it was renewed. She replied to a tweet from a user congratulating her on Season 6, writing: “No it’s not.” Amid the backlash, she apologized.

Addressing the controversy at the Atlantic Festival, Wu explained, per The Hollywood Reporter: “I wanted to have a fresh slate where I didn’t have to start a show with all these memories of abuse.

“A few people knew [the harassment] was happening, and to go to work every day and see those people who knew that he was sexually harassing me being ‘buddy-buddy’ with him felt like a betrayal every time.

“I loved everybody on that crew, and I loved working on that show, but it had that history of abuse, that it started with, and even though I handled it after two years, I was looking forward to a clean slate.”

Newsweek has reached out to representatives of ABC for comment.

Speaking with the Los Angeles Times back in 2019, Wu said that her Twitter outburst about Fresh Off the Boat was because she “had to give up a job I had been looking forward to and had been chasing for a while.”

“I’m dramatic. I’m emotional,” she continued. “But they also know that that doesn’t represent me because they have a hundred episodes of behavior that proves otherwise.”

In July, Wu returned to social media for the first time in three years, stating in a lengthy message that she had attempted suicide following a direct message from an actress allegedly saying she has become a “blight on the Asian community.”

“I was afraid of coming back on social media because I almost lost my life from it: Three years ago, when I made careless tweets about the renewal of my TV show, it ignited outrage and internet shaming that got pretty severe,” she wrote.

“I felt awful about what I’d said, and when a few DMs from a fellow Asian American told me I’d become a blight on the Asian American community, I started feeling like I didn’t even deserve to live anymore,” she continued. “That I was a disgrace to AsAms, and they’d be better without me.

“Looking back, it’s surreal that a few DMs convinced me to end my own life, but that’s what happened. Luckily, a friend found me and rushed me to the ER.”

She wrote how she took a break from the internet and focused on her mental health. While she was receiving backlash for her tweets, she said that most of her Asian American co-stars decided to “avoid or ice her out.”

Wu announced that within the three years she was off social media, she wrote Making a Scene, set to be released on October 4. Wu also said that she has had “a lot” of therapy and was ready to slowly make her way back online.

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