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Constance Wu Opens Up About Her Sexual Assault, Bravely Tells Her Story

Constance Wu Opens Up About Her Sexual Assault, Bravely Tells Her Story

Constance Wu opens up in her new memoir about a date she went on at the beginning of her career with a man she identifies as “Ty.”

The 40-year-old The Terminal List actress said that after their second date, he took her up to his apartment to give her a gift, which quickly escalated to “some fooling around.”

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Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault

“He took off his pants and started putting the condom on – an obvious signal for sex – which I did not want. So I said, ‘Oh gosh, I’m sorry, I’m not ready to have sex with you,’” Constance wrote in Making A Scene, excerpted by Vanity Fair.

“I said it clearly. But he merely smiled, as if he knew better, as if my vagina’s wetness was more telling than the words coming out of my mouth. He gently got on top of me and held my face in his hands. He kissed my lips, my forehead, and looked into my eyes.”

Constance continued: “He was being so tender. I repeated, as seriously as I could, ‘Really, I’m not ready for sex,’ my face flushing. He smiled at me again like I was a baby kitten, held me close, kissed me, gently moved my legs apart, and then he…did it anyway.”

She seemed to bury the memory of the incident but that changed when she had returned from filming 2018′s Crazy Rich Asians.

“I’d just woken up from a nap when the realization hit me like a flood,” she wrote. “Ty raped me. He raped me, and I hadn’t done anything about it.”

Constance later struggled with sharing her story, but concluded, “I did not consent to sex. Maybe it wasn’t violent, but it was rape. Period.”

Her memoir Making a Scene is set to be released on October 4.

This past summer, Constance returned to social media after three years and revealed that she had attempted suicide after facing backlash for a negative tweet she made about the renewal of Fresh Off The Boat in 2019.

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