Leung, now 37, opened up to The Guardian in a new interview about how she dealt with the onslaught of fame that came with life as a Harry Potter star alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in the film adaptations ofJ.K. Rowling's iconic wizard series.
She soon went online, wondering what people were saying about her. That's when she discovered much of the racist backlash.
It was painful to read, and Leung said she "didn't" deal with what she read.
How the Bullying Began
In a 2021 episode of the Chinese Chippy Girl podcast, Leung recalled that the bullying began after someone took a "secret photo" of her that wound up in newspapers, PEOPLE reported. Soon after, she was hit with an onslaught of messages.
"I was like, Googling myself at one point and I was on this website, which was kind of dedicated to the Harry Potter fandom, and I remember reading all the comments. It was a lot of racist s—," she said. "And then somebody had actually created a website, a hate site — it was like, if you disagree with this casting, then click on this button and then it would just be like a count of how many people disagreed with the casting and you would just see a number. I know, it's awful. It's so awful."
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Heading to the World of Bridgerton
“I feel really blessed, genuinely,” she told the publication. “It feels quite familiar, in a sense. Also, I’m older, and at a place in my life where I’m not too fazed going into something seemingly so huge.”
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