Mariko Shinoda, a former member of Japanese lady group AKB48, has been caught cheating on her husband of three years.
In an audio recording revealed by Japanese journal Weekly Bunshun, the 36-year-old singer was heard admitting to having an affair with a businessman in his 30s and apologised for her infidelity.
“This is all my fault. I’m sorry for being such a bad person,” she mentioned within the recording, to which her husband responded, “There’s nothing you can do now. You’re the one who destroyed this family.”
The recording – allegedly submitted by the husband, who’s a non-celebrity – additionally included Shinoda threatening her husband, saying that she “will bounce off the balcony and commit suicide” if he didn’t forgive her.
According to reviews, the singer’s husband, supervisor and pals spent over 40 minutes making an attempt to calm her down and cease her from making an attempt to bounce off the balcony.
On Monday (Dec 26), Japanese media launched a collection of screenshots exposing Shinoda’s flirty messages together with her affair accomplice on the social networking website, Line.
The pictures additionally revealed that she had been visiting the businessman’s home a number of instances since May.
Mariko Shinoda tied the knot with an entrepreneur in 2019 and gave beginning to a child lady in 2020.
The timeline matches the story of Shinoda’s husband, who shared that he had been suspicious of his spouse who saved leaving the home late at evening since May.
After going by the information on his spouse’s menstrual cycle app, the husband confirmed that he had conclusive proof of the affair.
Speaking to Japanese media, Shinoda’s husband lamented: “The heart symbol is used to record when one had sexual intercourse. This symbol was marked on the days I assumed Mariko was meeting her affair partner.
“What stood out the most to me was that she added a different symbol to distinguish between me and her partner. I was shocked to see this record. Did she just want to avoid an unwanted pregnancy or did she do this so she will know whose child it was if she got pregnant?”
It is reported that Shinoda’s husband is submitting for a divorce and lawsuit towards the singer, looking for alimony from the affair. The two are additionally allegedly preventing for custody of their two-year-old daughter.
Shinoda’s company has refused to reply to the matter.
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