Okay, everyone needs to slow the hell down. The translation painted the article in a much worse light than it actually is.

The word translated here as "selfishness" is very, very different from the English word we use. It means something more like "wilfullness" and "free-spiritedness". There is also a huge cultural difference between what is selfish in Japan, and what is selfish in America. They use the word "wagamama" MUCH more than we use "selfish" -- it isn't as strong, and it isn't necessarily a bad thing.

What Wada Akiko really says is rather sympathetic, not disapproving. She actually says she feels a similar willfulness to that of Ayu. She shows disappointment, sure, but in the sense that she wishes that the two of them could have made it work, because she was really rooting for them. These are the pitying, romantic ramblings of an old woman. She is hardly a fascist.

And even if Akiko had made repraochful comments toward Ayu, so what? People really need to stop vehemently getting defensive over a celebrity they don't even know. Wada Akiko knows much more what's going on than anyone here ever will. For all we know, Ayu could be a bunny kicker. Chill out and deal.