Ashlee Simpson is talking about her bout with the exhaustion virus that claims countless young pop starlets each year. In mid-December, 2005 after a busy US tour, she went to Japan where she had to be hospitalized in less than ideal quarters:
She said, “I finished my US tour and went straight to Japan.”
She explains, “I didn’t go to a nice emergency room – I ended up in one with blood on the walls. Nasty.”
“I was dehydrated. I had bronchitis.”
She adds, “Who knows exactly what it was? I think it was just complete exhaustion.”
Despite Ashlee’s impression, Japan’s health care system is much better than that of the United States. In a 2000 report by the World Health Organization, Japan ranked 10th overall in health care while the US came in at 37th – below most other industrialized nations. The US also has a higher infant mortality rate than Japan.
Here are pictures of Ashlee in April’s Jane magazine.
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