Chef Eddie Huang isn’t afraid to shake things up. He also doesn’t hesitate to speak out about things that are important to him, from reflecting on the immigrant experience, to talking about his love for hip-hop and basketball. Here’s everything you should know about him.
In a 2017 essay for The Cut, Huang revealed that he was a survivor of childhood abuse. When he was 14, he was violated by a chaperone on a church ski trip. He told a handful of close friends years after the incident happened, but it took him nearly two decades before he went public with his story. He decided to do so after the stories about Harvey Weinstein made him think about his own assault experience. He was also inspired by actor Anthony Rapp coming forward about his own alleged assault by Kevin Spacey when he too was just 14. As Huang wrote in his essay,
“We can’t always control what people do to us, but we do have the power to define it.”
That wasn’t the only troubling experience that Huang lived through at a young age, as he also experienced domestic violence. In a 2015 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he revealed,
“They tried to take my brother away and my parents away from my family because of domestic violence, and it’s something I really struggled with as a kid…This is a big idea, and I feel like if we are going to talk about Asian families, it’s something we should discuss and think about how we can address.”
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Assault and domestic violence | 0:16
Inspiring Fresh Off the Boat | 1:23
Criticizing Fresh Off the Boat | 2:22
Branching out into film | 3:44
Cooking with MSG | 4:33
Standing up to racists | 5:41
No fan of Steve Harvey | 6:50
Unlucky in love | 8:03
Eddie and Anthony | 9:12
Four Loko trouble | 10:27
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