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Max is one of Ayu's closest friends. Even if he f. it up, she most likely would address that to him in person and we would never know about that.
People are complex, celebrities are way less complex. It's easier to reduce someone you only know through to media to a handful of good or bad traits, but when you actually have a relationship with that person, things aren't that black or white anymore.
If someone important to you did some mildly bad stuff (I mean, he said some shit. As far as mysoginistic behavior goes, that isn't the worst) would you cut ties with they?
About their age gap... Ayu was an adult, and considering Max teached her a lot of what she knew about being a popstar and pushed her to take control of her own career, I think we could say he pretty much empowered her at some level. Public life is awful to women in general, and they don't need to do much to be considered crazy, problematic, histerical, the beauty standarts are pretty narrow.
Besides all that, Ayu pretty much does the opposite the ideal japanese woman should do, there was a point in time it wasn't that great associating with her aswell, and he still stood by her side.
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