guess which one of my favorite idols experienced this
"Moreover she was cheated by an “agent” who told her she should pay for recording, but this man disappeared once got the money. That was all ****'s savings (about 300 thousand yen), she couldn’t pay for her rent and lived for several days in a community of homeless old men. In an interview on “MelodiX Premium” TV program she looked happy telling this story."
Aina had a really bad time getting where she is, that's why i'm happy to see her being so successful
in one of her first interviews she talked about the bullying she had to endure, how when she was in middle school bullies would chase her around the hallways and undress her, beat her, tell her to kill herself, really fucked up
QuoteDisplay MoreーーThese are individual interviews, so I want to touch on things that happened in your past, so what was your life like when you were younger? What were you like in middle school?
Aina: I was bullied like crazy.
ーーYou, too?!
Aina: (laughs). Momoko was thrown in pools, Aina was chased up trees. We're bullied children.
ーーWhen was this?
Aina: In middle school, the whole time. I was picked on every day. It was seriously quite difficult, but at that time I didn't care.
QuoteDisplay MoreAina: They chased me up a tree, and like the top, boss-like kid stuffed grass into the hood of my jacket and told me to walk home like that. I don't know what the point of that was (laughs). Also, when boys would pass by the hall, these 4 girls would surround me and try to strip me. For some reason, I just laughed at that at the time. Thinking about it later, though, I was like, "What, that was awful." I think that's why I'm so insecure about taking my clothes off. So when the question was asked, "Will you take your clothes off for BiSH?" I ended up saying, "I won't." But then, strangely, I also said, "It's fine if it's just my nipples" (laughs).
ーーThis was every day?
Aina: Yes. Also, some people from a different middle school would be outside the front gate, yelling, "Die!" at me.
ーーWas it because they were jealous of you?
Aina: I don't know, but people at other schools hated me. Still, even though I was bullied, the people who liked me like me a whole lot, so I had both extremes of love and hate, which meant I didn't really have any acquaintances, on the surface. I was either a friend or an enemy.
ーーDid your friends help you out when you were bullied?
Aina: They did. When the bullies would like try to squish my fingers in the door, they'd come and protect me by pushing them.
QuoteDisplay MoreーーWere you doing dance by that point?
Aina: Yes. I've been dancing since I was 4. I went to a performing arts school in middle school, but I didn't get much praise so I only ever got background roles.
ーーWhat was the most important thing you learned?
Aina: Pecking order.
ーーWhat?! Not dance? (laughs)
Aina: That's it (laughs). After lessons were over I'd be the first to clean up, and when that was done I would clean out the broom I used to sweep up, going, "Look how much I cleaned!" It was a small victory.
ーーYou weren't bullied?
Aina: I might have been (laughs). At the time, I ended up getting nerve pain and going into anaphylactic shock.
ーーAs the result of being bullied?
Aina: No, I just made people too mad at school. Getting picked on wasn't that bad to me. I didn't cry, and I didn't care when I got chased up the tree. I didn't care, just like, "I'm just happy they're paying this much attention to me."
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