Tabloids reporting rumors of retirement after Ayu turns 40

[Cahz-]

Originally Posted by kotora

The internet is good and scary at the same time. You don't know if people screen capture what you wrote in the past.

I'm glad someone screen-captured this, so we know what that person said instead of changing the story.
And btw the original screenshot didn't have the name censored, that's my grain of sand.

[Xianghua]

He sounds like a tool. If Ayu and Mannie were on good terms after everything I hope Mannie put him in his place.

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

I never saw that before...
Crazy.

I just came back from LA and have a little story.

Both my brother and his girlfriend work in the entertainment industry.
A friend of his girlfriend is Japanese, also in the industry, and met Mannie at a party back when Ayu and him were still married.

Mannie, knowing this woman to be Japanese, introduced himself, and then decided to say that his wife is Japanese and is super famous in japan. Then dropped her name.

Not anything juicy, but he obviously didn’t mind name dropping when convenient for him.

[kendelle]

I don't think the namedrop necessarily means anything although it is interesting. Maybe Mannie mentioned her to establish some sort of familiarity or something?

[tokyoxjapanxfan]

I only meant it in the sense that, that friend complained about ayu being upset about her being a “nobody” yet Mannie is also introducing himself as Mr. Ayumi Hamasaki when it works in his favor. (Ayu wasn’t even at the party, he just randomly walked up to this friend and used Ayu as his entry point into the conversation.)

I’m not saying anyone’s at fault, but this “friend” of his is just being a hypocrite.

Anyway, this is old news. I just found it interesting how I just found out about both stories recently lol.

[Andrenekoi]

^I don't think his friend meant anything said... He was clearly just trying to offend her to her fans as a reaction to Ayu's fandom attack.