Japanese media attacks Noriko Sakai
If you live in Japan and have turned on your television some time in the last few days, chances are you heard nothing but news about the drug scandal involving celebrity Noriko Sakai (“Noripi”). Her husband was initially arrested for possession of stimulants and Noriko promptly disappeared. Most media coverage painted her as an embarrassed victim of a bad husband, but things have changed since her husband told police that Noriko was also a drug user. Police have issued a warrant for her arrest, and the media has begun to air any bit of information they think might support the case against her.
One of the examples they’ve dug up is a video clip from 5 years ago showing that she got a -*GASP*- tattoo on her ankle. The media cannot confirm whether the tattoo was real or just temporary, but is nonetheless proof of her abandoning her pure image (and heading down the road to drug use?).
She also gave an interview in 2007 with a strange streak of coloring in her hair. She told the interviewer that she is an adult and wants to spend more time to indulge herself.
Other examples of her suspicious activity include: not consenting to a voluntary search of her bag when she was called to the scene of her husband’s arrest and refusing to take a urine test.
Update: She’s turned herself in.
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