Do you still think smoking was the only thing she did? It was the only thing she was publicly caught doing. (...) A person who needs to rediscover her center that much must have been more than a little off center to begin with.
That's an interesting approach, I didn't think about it this way. May be true, but we can only guess. It might as well have been a one time thing for her, maybe she was just experimenting, then things got a little out of hand, and
wham, bad luck, she gets caught. Not that I'm trying to justify her recklessness, but I don't think it's so certain that smoking wasn't the only thing she did. We'll never know. But all this humble repentance makes her look like a former crack addict re-emerging from a private clinic. But I know, I know, that's Japan, that's idols' life.