May 2004

At the end of her visit to Taiwan, there’s been a miscommunication between Namie and her staff. She arrived without any bodyguards at the airport, reporters got crazy and all rushed towards her. Finally security arrived and while they were trying to stop the reporters, Namie’s head was smashed to the glass wall. She started to cry because of the pain and still frightened, she kept crying all the way to the plane pulled by a bodyguard.

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Namie has been cheated in Korea. Even though her concerts there had a big success, J Line Company didn’t pay half of the price they had to. As a consequence, Namie had to pay herself all the fees for lodging, transportation, or security for all her crew. But these are only rumors since other sources say the company has already paid a big part and is negociating to pay the rest a bit later.