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I'm rather undecided on this issue. Ayu is a smart woman, and she obviously wouldn't want her fan base knowing all the inside information.

For all we know, Ayu could have done this in response to being replaced by AKB. Her saying otherwise on Twitter and her fan diary doesn't mean she's being 100% honest with us. She would never tell us the truth if it meant her looking bad, that's just the smart thing to do.

And I still think it's impossible for her to not have been able to find even one flight out of JFK and LAX. They're 2 of the biggest airports in America, and she has no problem with money.

It wouldn't surprise me if the information is true, but I don't necessarily think it is. It'd be different if all this was written in tabloid magazines, like Friday, but it's in newspapers. Japanese newspapers don't usually focus on rumors. Scandals, yes. But you rarely see completely falsified information in the news (even in America, while things are often overblown, there's usually some type of truth to it).

Of course since we're all fans of Ayu we want to believe she was completely innocent, but only Ayu and Avex know the truth.

If she were to leave Avex, I wonder how things would change in her music production, videos, etc. And if she were to start her own label or something, I wonder if she would then start signing people... I'm sure that for someone to stay with the same label their entire singing career could sometimes be suffocating.