More details revealed on the hours before Takeuchi Yuko’s death

Tokyo Sports revealed a few details in regards to hours before Takeuchi’s death.

Before her death, Takeuchi was with her husband Nakabayashi Taiki (35), her eldest teenage son (note: Her son she had with her first husband/actor, Nakamura Shido) (14) and her eight month old son in the first floor and the family had dinner.

Takeuchi then went to the second floor to her bedroom alone.  After ten minutes, she came back down to the first floor.  Her husband sad that at that moment, she thought she was tired and was about to go to sleep.

After that, Nakabayashi and her eldest son when upstairs to go to bed.

Nakabayashi was concerned because he didn’t see Takeuchi sleeping in the bedroom and that’s when he found her in the closet.  Taiki yelled out “Yu!” repeatedly but there was no response and he called 119 before 2:00 a.m.

TAkeuchi was taken to the ER and she died of cardiopulmonary arrest which was confirmed at the hospital.  There was no suicide note but Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department considers it a suicide because of the cause of death (one publicaton has said Takeuchi had hung herself inside the bedroom closet).

Multiple artcles have sad that there was nothing concerning or unnatural about Takeuchi’s behavior.

There have been articles wondering if Takeuchi was suffering from post-partum depression.

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