[Sangetsu]

Sakai's son was found at the house of a friend. She had dropped him off and paid her friend 50k yen to watch him. A search by police of her apartment found drug paraphernalia which had her DNA on it.

New revelations are that Sakai is the daughter of a yakuza gangster, and with this new bit of information many of the public are now seeing her in a different light. As the daughter of such a person, people now think that Sakai inherited a crime-prone personality from her father. Sakai's husband was arrested for drug possession, but many now are of the opinion that he was buying the drugs for her use.

Other interesting information is that Sakai has been separated from her husband (a "professional surfer", which is another word for unemployed) for some time, and that Sakai is a close friend of her husband's mistress.

Some people now recall seeing Sakai in Tokyo techno dance clubs, where people often go to use drugs anonymously.

Sakai turned herself in to police yesterday, admitting (and apologizing for) her drug use problem.

As a result of the news and her confession, television commercials in which she is currently appearing in (one of which is for Toyota Motor Company) have been pulled off the air.

If this were America, she would be checked into rehab, and probably be back to work in another year. But this is Japan, and drug use here is unpardonable, even more so in her case, as her 10 year old son was involved in the incident.