Shion arrested for drugs

DOLCE · #1 10th December 2009, 10:25 PM

November 10th Kanagawa police arrested R&B singer Shion (26) for the possession and use of the narcotic ketamine. Shion gave a statement to the police saying, "I did use ketamine in my room."

According to the investigation, Shion had used ketamine and was in possession of it at her home on November 9th.

The police were searching her room in relation to a different case when a plastic bag containing 0.003 grams of ketamine was found under her pillow. The police also found a straw to which Shion admitted having used to snort the drug a week earlier. After taking a urine sample Shion tested positive.

In May of 2008 Shion made her album debut with Candy Girl, which landed at #9 on Oricon album chart. Her most recent album Truth was released this past October, although she recently stopped activities due to a health issue. Shion is a popular singer among young women and had just been nominated for the Billboard Japan Music Awards 2009 in the Best Indies Artist category.
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~Inori~ · #2 10th December 2009, 10:37 PM

Poor girl. I hope after all of this she still has a career to go back to.

Tom Punks · #3 10th December 2009, 10:45 PM

^ I doubt it. Especially what happened to Alex from ONE OK ROCK; he did practically nothing but had to leave the band and was dropped from his modeling agency. >>

Why are you pitying her though? I mean she did it to herself. If you're gonna do drugs though, you should be prepared to pay the price. x_x

Mr. Goto · #4 11th December 2009, 12:08 AM

^ Yeah her official site is already down...

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Why are you pitying her though? I mean she did it to herself. If you're gonna do drugs though, you should be prepared to pay the price. x_x

Ketamine can be used to distract from pain or be as an anesthetic, and she has a health problem so she could of been using the drug for that :/ We don't know the full story yet but it's a possibility. I dunno people shouldn't be so quick to judge drug users.

~Inori~ · #5 11th December 2009, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Tom Punks

Why are you pitying her though? I mean she did it to herself. If you're gonna do drugs though, you should be prepared to pay the price. x_x

I'm pitying her because we do not know the circumstances that led to her drug problem. I'm pretty sure that one day she didn't just decided she was going to take drugs.

AyumiSEASONS · #6 10th December 2009, 10:46 PM

>> Wow I didnt know that stuff was still around...Im allergic to ketamine D:

Atleast she didn't lie about using the drug though, that gets you in even more trouble than admitting to it.

keepsgettinbetter · #7 10th December 2009, 11:08 PM

Wow, I remember when her first album came out. I'm so surprised! D:

Polyrhythm · #8 10th December 2009, 11:45 PM

Well we can kiss her career goodbye...remember...That morning musume girl who smoked and got screwed by an old guy....never hear about her anymore

Crystal_Ageha · #9 11th December 2009, 12:12 AM

^^ Hahah, Ai Kago? Yeah, that screwed her up pretty badly, and this is even worse than that. D:
Hate to say it, but she probably brought it on herself, Shion...

There is a chance we don't know the whole thing and there was some "reason," like Goto said, but more than likely that's not the case. Too bad.

**Calico** · #10 11th December 2009, 01:10 AM

Ketamine is pretty strong stuff if abused...I mostly always hear it used as animal anesthetic by vets. Also kind of a random drug...wonder if she started using it because of her health problem...

AyUta · #11 12th December 2009, 05:41 AM

Oh wow @_@ her career is gone baby .

Zeke. · #12 12th December 2009, 09:07 AM

Ah, so early in her career! I feel bad for her. Guess she just got caught up in the fame.

gothicayu · #13 13th December 2009, 01:27 PM

i never heard about her before........ anyone have her cds ? i d love to her songs.

thatsr eally sad for her .....

hpg23 · #14 13th December 2009, 10:27 PM

Well, that's how the industry works. It's kinda sad the obsession they've got to that "squeaky clean" image... it's one of the very few things that I dislike about the J-Pop industry. Specially when I don't feel is gratuite at all, it's always been a very, very, very dark and hard business in the backstage.

I understand there's a halt on her career for some time, but I wish she would be able to come back in some way, with time. Sadly, chances for that happening are close to none.

*Petit* · #15 13th December 2009, 10:53 PM

^
I prefer that kind of treatement to the media hype received for misbehavior resulting from obious drug abuse and other things that makes a horrible role model in the west (the list is too long, britney, amy winehouse, robbie will etc).

If you have pains, you go see a doctor and get a drug that is legal. It's no more complicated for someone in show biz than anyone else. If the pressure gets to high, you have to deal with it. If she couldn't get through without this kind of drug maybe showbiz isen't the place for her.

zyoeru · #16 13th December 2009, 11:02 PM

I agree with *petit* the music industry in the West is far too lenient on drug-abusers. It's a good thing that Japan cracks down on this type of thing...

**Calico** · #17 14th December 2009, 12:22 AM

I think this is a case of "happy medium". On one hand drug abuse shouldn't be used media entertanment, but it also shouldn't totally destroy the person than it already has on its own. I think the main problem would be that the Japanese industry doesn't believe in "second chances" at all, really.

noidea · #18 14th December 2009, 02:29 PM

Is it really such a big problem to take drugs in japan? Something is seriously ****ed up...

hpg23 · #19 14th December 2009, 10:35 PM

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Is it really such a big problem to take drugs in japan? Something is seriously ****ed up...

Being a celebrity, is practically the worst you can do. There is almost no way turning back and they tend to be really dramatic with it; public apologies, websites closed and halting all of promotion.
There is usually a couple "big" scandals in Japan a year, and when you look at all the fuss and all the problem with them, its really funny, because if most of that stuff happened in the West it wouldn't be considered a scandal at all, and no one would give a damn. Many careers have been ruined because of things like these.
Let me see, in recent history, we've got:

-Erika Sawajiri, actress, singer and model who at her peak was HUGE, ruined her career with her bad attitude (like, she was mean to some journalists on a few ocassions). Later on, she travelled to Ibiza, Spain, supposedly to study, but it was later on rumoured and found that she had been using cocaine there, thus, she was dropped of her model agency, I believe, and no TV channels wanted her to star on it. She is almost forgotten now, and she was practically everywhere on 2005-2006.

-Noriko Sakai, singer, was recently charged for drug abuse too, and she practically lost her career, facing imprisoment.

-Narita Shoji, former Johnny idol, was arrested for marijuana posession this month.

-Koda Kumi, in one of the most famous cases, was suspended for months thanks to her infamous "rotten fluids" comment on the radio. All promotion for her then brand new album Kingdom was halted and her website was taken down. She even appeared on TV crying and apologizing, and before each show on Kingdom tour (which she tried to cancel) she also apologized to the audience. I remember seeing tabloid pictures of her looking fat and depressed, and many doubted she would go back, but she did, probably thanks to her success and her apoligizes.

-Ai Kago, Morning Musume member, got practically erased from showbusiness a couple years ago, when she was found dating a man twice her age.

-Uchi Hiroki and Kusano Hironori, members of the band NEWS, were also "punished" by Jonnhy because they were caught drinking underage.

-Ami Suzuki had a huge scandal that crashed her career, because her management was evading taxes. She went against them, breaking one of the golden rules of showbiz in Japan: never bit the hand that feeds you. She was only able to come back some time after, thanks to her re-debut with Avex, and with a lot less success than what she once had, when she was one of the tops.

-Tetsuya Komuro, famous producer of Namie Amuro on her beginnings was also involved in legal problems, when he tried to sell over 500 songs composed by him, but which were owned by Avex. This was one of the biggest scandals this year, and he found it almost impossible to come back.

and many more cases, and it's really hard to return, and if you do, usually the artist's popularity is sliced in two.

Anyway, I agree with you, I think that drugs should be allowed and controlled by the government... they could do something to ban its usage (maybe sell the harder drugs at indecently high prices), but I think that if something is forbidden, people tend more to consume it.

Yum!Fruit_Salad! · #20 15th December 2009, 02:56 AM

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-Ami Suzuki had a huge scandal that crashed her career, because she was evading taxes. She was only able to come back some time after, thanks to her re-debut with Avex, and with a lot less success than what she once had, when she was one of the tops.

Ami wasn't the one who was evading taxes, it was her management. They lied about how much money they earned and didn't pay her royalities fully. What screwed Ami was that she was going against her superior (didn't matter she was doing the right thing). It's because of that no record company wanted to sign her.