Constance Wu Returns To Instagram After Sharing Suicide Attempt

Actress Constance Wu is venturing back on Instagram shortly after revealing that she had attempted suicide due to social media backlash.

On Tuesday afternoon, the "Crazy Rich Asians" star took to Instagram to promote her film "I Was a Simple Man."

"While I was off the grid recovering, I took a little break from my acting career," Wu explained. "But during that time I did do a couple select small projects with people I love and trusted."

"I Was a Simple Man was one of those projects. It premiered at Sundance last year and is now available for streaming on Criterion," she continued. "Since I wasn’t on social media back when it came out, I wasn’t able to share. But now that I’m back on here for a bit, wanted to share this beautiful film by my dear friend @makotoyogi who I love and admire very much."

"Loved the cast and crew and heart of this experience," she added, calling it "a wonderful experience and an incredible film."

In May 2019, the "Fresh Off the Boat" star shared several tweets to describe how disappointed she was that the show got renewed for another season.

In one tweet, she said that she was “so upset now that I’m literally crying.” She also wrote “dislike” on a post announcing the series’ renewal on the show’s official Instagram page.

Wu later called her comments “ill-timed” and expressed that she was “so grateful” that she would be able to return for another season. She later said that she had initially expressed disappointment with the renewal because it meant that she’d have to give up “another project I was really passionate about” that “would have challenged” her “as an artist.” She later apologized, admitting that her reaction “wasn’t nice, and I’m sorry for that.”

She received a lot of backlash for her tweets, which led to Wu admitting about two weeks ago that the online vitriol caused her to try to take her own life.

“I haven’t been on social media in almost 3 years,” she began her lengthy statement, which can be read in full above. “Tbh, I’m a little scared, but I’m dipping my toe back in to say I’m here and while I was gone I wrote a book called Making a Scene.”

“This next part is hard to talk about…but I was afraid of coming back on social media because I almost lost my life from it,” she wrote. “3 years ago when I made careless tweets about the renewal of my TV show, it ignited outrage and internet shaming that got pretty severe.”

“I felt awful about what I’d said, and when a few DMs from a fellow Asian actress 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 off 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.”

Wu said that “scary moment” made her “reassess a lot” in her life as she took time away from her career to focus on her mental health.

At the end of her post, she said that she feels “OK enough to venture back on here (at least for a little bit)” after “a lot of therapy.”

She concluded her post, saying, “And even though I’m scared, I’ve decided that I owe it to the me-of-3-years-ago to be brave and share my story so that it might help someone with theirs.”