[Blog] Ayu announces separation from Tyson

[Sandy]

Originally Posted by orbitalaspect

Regardless of how much hate I get for this: I'm not surprised at all. I have no clue why Ayu married an American who wasn't migrating permanently to Japan. She spoke previously in an interview about how she has her life in Japan, and then her life with him in the US. (Something, something, she goes to spend time with him in the US - something, something - she gets away from who she is in Japan for awhile...) And it struck me as a bit odd to be so happy about having two lives, one to herself and one with her husband. But more so, it sounded like the same lifestyle that ultimately ended her relationship with Manny (him wanting to stay in the US, her wanting to stay in Japan).

For someone who has so earnestly lived a double life (one in Japan, one overseas), Ayu really needs to settle into one identity. She can't be the biggest selling female Japanese artist of all time AND be some nice unknown Japanese girl in America. She really needs to buckle down and affirm to herself that she is either AYUMI HAMASAKI or no longer AYUMI HAMASAKI, but she can't be both, or be one today and the other tomorrow.

Feel free to throw your shade at me. But I'm pretty confident that Ayu knew marrying an American would present the same obstacles she had with the last American she married. I think she genuinely thought this one would work out differently. But the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over expecting different results.

I agree with you. I do hope Ayu finds someone to spend the rest of her life with.

This whole thing of Ayu living a double life reminds me of Marilyn Monroe.

This was written by Amy Greene, her good friend and wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene.

“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.”

If this story is 100%, I can't say, and I don't think it matters. It's still a good metaphore. Marilyn Monroe did this thing, being MARILYN MONROE one moment and NORMA JEAN the next. And how did that work out for her?

I'm not saying Ayu will start taking drugs (or her own life), I'm just saying it seems that no matter how hard celebrities especially want to have a normal life outside their performing life, it litterally means to split yourself into two pieces - that doesn't sound healthy and doubt it would last and end happily for anyone.


Edit: A few sites announcing the divorce, for those who want to give it a read:

SBS.com
AramaJapan