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♪ good evening. thank you for joining us. tonight, constance wu speaking out. the "crazy rich asians" star wants to explain what she says happened to her while working on the early seasons of "fresh off the boat" and why she sent the tweet after the show's final renewal that almost ruined her career. how she overcame it all. here's my night lie coanchor juju chang with this exclusive interview. >> i felt judged for so long. oh, she had this big movie, now she thinks she's a big star who outgrew her tv show. it's easy to see that, but we're all so much more than our tweets. >> reporter: constance wu's fall from grate grace was as epic as her rise to fame. a hollywood breakout pushing barriers on abc's hit tv show "fresh off the boat." >> mom, no, i don't want chinese lunch! i want white people food! >> the kids at schuylkill get used to it.

>> reporter: making more history as a bona fide movie star in "crazy rich asians," hailed as a triumph representation with its all-asian cast. >> you're spectacular>> it's different. the double sphinx, i can't breathe. >> reporter: instantly she became the champion for the asian american community. what did it feel like to suddenly become a hollywood star? >> it felt like a privilege. to be able to bring up these matters of representation for asian americans. but it felt a little scary because i felt like there's people who are so better equipped than i was to talk about it. people that have studied it in college. you know, there's a little bit of guilt about that. but -- >> you felt like an imposter this. >> well, i was. it wasn't imposter syndrome where you actually -- no, i was, i did not know. >> reporter: in 2019, just months before the release of her blockbuster "hustlers" with jennifer lopez, wu's popularity

cratered after tweeting that she was, quote, so upset right now that i'm literally crying. because "fresh off the boat" had been renewed for a sixth season. >> it came out sounding pretty bad. my tweets were really graceless. and the most painful thing of all, it was really the asian american community that either ostracized or avoided me the most around that topic. >> what happened that made you react and then push send? >> our final episode of the previous season had been written to function as a series finale. so cancelation was a forgone conclusion. i'd gotten other jobs i was excited about. >> reporter: wu deleted the tweets and posted an apology saying she was temporarily upset. still, backlash remained and wu retreated into silence for three years as people continued to condemn her. including, she says, an asian actress she thought was her ally. >> she sent me some dms.

shaming me. to the point of me thinking i needed to end my own life. >> what was it that cut so deep for you? >> she basically said i had become a blight on the asian american community, and nothing i could ever do would make up for the damage i'd done to the community. that i was, like, a disgrace. and it made me feel like -- asian americans feel like it would be better if i just didn't exist. >> reporter: wu says she was in so much pain, she considered the unthinkable and wound up in a psychiatric e.r. >> i was lucky enough that a friend who had access to my apartment and had come to check up on me -- i mean, i pulled myself over the balcony of my apartment building. you know? i was going to jump. it's like, talking about it now makes me palms itch. because i remember holding on to it.

but -- ultimately, ended up being something helpful, because it made me get help. >> what did that help look like? >> it was professional help. so i was in therapy every day for a while. it looked like me completely unplugging from social media. and sort o re-evaluate ing what mattered to me in life and why it mattered to me. >> reporter: wu, now 40, says she found her voice in her new memoir, "making a scene." after suffering in silence, she's now revealing to those who may have judged her the fullness of the traumas she says she's faced throughout her life, including troubling allegations against a producer of the show that made her a star. >> my first couple of years on "fresh off the boat," i was -- i was sexually harassed by a producer, and i was, you know, intimidated and threatened a lot by mill.

and it was my first-ever network tv job. and i was constantly terrified of being fired. and at the same time, "fresh off the boat" was considered this bright pinnacle of asian american representation. and my abuser on the show was an asian american man. and it really was a conflict for me. i didn't want to stain the reputation of one show asian americans had to represent themselves. >> what made that relationship inappropriate? >> small things that i shouldn't have to think about. like, "send me sexy selfies at night." there was a time when he inappropriately touched my leg and grazed my crotch over my jeans. there was times where he would ask to see pictures of my female friends and say if he'd [ bleep ] them or not. actually, he often said, "nobody wanted you, i had to fight for you to get this job, i'm protecting you, you have to listen to me."

>> reporter: we reached out to abc entertainment about wu's allegations of sexual harassment, and they told us they had no comment. >> if your tears could speak, what would they say? >> i think the tears are often tears of relief. because it feels like, you know, i'm finally getting to be heard and tell my story and let people know that i understand why they might have judged me. but to hope that they understand the context. >> reporter: she says the context is complicated, stemming back to her childhood, growing up in virginia with immigrant parents from taiwan. you talked about one of the most painful episodes in your childhood was being accused of plagiarizing. where you were like, and i couldn't call my parents as backup. >> yeah. >> because i thought my teacher would think they were dumb. >> yeah. >> because of their accent. >> yeah, because it's so easy to equate accented english with stupidity. in a way, you feel like you have to protect your parents.

my teacher er would judge and e them. >> reporter: when hollywood was trying to be more inclusive wu said she was dealing with a cultural taboo, clinical depression. >> in the middle of filming "crazy rich asians," it persisted for four, five months. i couldn't get off the couch. you know, when i got home from filming. and that's when i was like, okay, i'm going to give medication a try. and it's -- it's really helped a lot. >> reporter: and while filming the mega hit, memories of a rape she says she experienced a decade before by a different man resurfaced>> it's different. not even that i repressed it, it's that i didn't even realize it was rape. but rape is having sex with somebody who does not consent. and i said the words, "i am not ready for sex." and he kissed me on the forehead, treated me very tenderly, and decided to do it anyway.

and it took me a long time to realize. and i think my body reminded me of it because i was in a place where i was ready. >> reporter: now wu says she's trying to reclaim her spotlight, returning to the big screen in "lyle lyle crocodile." and gently logging back onto social media after a three-year hiatus. >> it might seem like i rezoned social media to promote my book. but the people i want to reach, the people who are going what i went through three years ago, who are in despair over a dm or a tweet, they're scrolling their feeds and feeling lonelier and lonelier. i want to reach that person. >> reporter: her greatest project yet, motherhood, welcoming her first child, a daughter. recently reconciling her own relationship with her mother after a five-year estrangement. >> when i first sort of became visible in hollywood -- she really got on me.

and i felt like she didn't understand me. and that's why we became estranged. but i now understand it was all just out of love. and -- yeah. i'm trying to apply that to being a mom myself. >> reporter: opening one chapter, closing an what du yoin cce lture? >> canceling means, oh, i don't think somebody can change, i think they need to be banished forever. i was canceled for being less than the perfect -- for not being the asian that people wanted me to be. but i'm thinking about how i can be a better person, and it's made me try to be a better person. >> our thanks to juju. if you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide or other mental health crises, free, confidential help is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. call or text the national lifeline at 988. that number again, 988.

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with the midterm elections now weeks away, a new allegation about the personal life of senate candidate herschel walker has emerged. now his son, christian, is using his social media fame to denounce his father. here's abc's rachel scott in georgia. >> reporter: georgia republican senate hopeful herschel walker is under fire yet again. >> i can tell you right now, i never asked anyone to get an abortion, i never paid for an

abortion. >> reporter: staunchly tian-abortion ndcaidate. spreonding o fnox news to legationths at he paid for an ex-girlfenrid's aboiortn more an a decade ago. >> ist' a lie. dan i'm going toon ctinue to ght, you know. i tell you,ha tt'sha wt they want. they wtan this atse. r>>eporter: walkerig vorously advocate as total ban on ortion,o n ceexptions. the former heiansm trophy winner andfl n star is in a very thtig ceit wh georgia's incumbent democricat senator, rhaapel waocrnk. 'sit just the lesatt ctronoversy winhat haslr aeady bnee a rocky campaign. walker tayod shying away from the carames. ist' clear herhescl waerlk's campaign is tryingo tee kp us at a distance. weri ted to attend the luncheo n he is attending. shi campaign kkeicd us off the proper,ty moved uscr aoss the street. >> rorepter: thell aegations reportedy b "the daily beast" were made by a woman claimgin to walker's ex-girlfrid.en th ewon,ma who asked the website not to use her name to protect her privacy, prodevid a $575

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