2nd November 2026 – (Hong Kong) Japanese DJ Mao Hamasaki, 33, has quietly left Queen Elizabeth Hospital after an alleged Halloween drink-spiking collapse in Tsim Sha Tsui and is preparing to give a statement to investigators, her manager indicated after police asked them not to take media interviews.
The former adult-film actress, who has moved to Hong Kong, was performing at a Tsim Sha Tsui bar on the night of 31st October when drinks were suspected to have been laced. She seized and stiffened, was rushed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, tested positive for four drug substances including so-called Happy water, and spent time in intensive care. Officers have classified the file as administering poison with intent to cause harm.
After posting safety messages on 1st November, she put out a long Japanese account today describing clearer consciousness and a hoped-for discharge once a psychiatric review this afternoon found nothing major wrong. By the time reporters caught up, she and her manager had already left the wards. Asked how she was, she managed only “OK” and thanks; the manager said they had been told not to give interviews and would go to the authorities to record a statement.
In the Japanese post she said she finished a first Halloween DJ set, then headed toward a second booking. Before going on she drank about two orange-flavoured cocktail shots. Sediment at the bottom of the glass looked cloudy, but she took it for fruit pulp. Roughly 40 minutes to an hour into the second set she still felt tipsy, though her eyes burned dry and her memory blurred. She toasted again with the same orange shot; once it was gone her body locked, limbs useless, and her memory cut out.
She next woke in an ambulance amid convulsions. Four positive drug markers and doctors’ warning that the episode had been very dangerous left her deeply frightened. Even with awareness back she felt extreme unease and pain without knowing why, only repeating how hard it was. She blamed her own drop in guard after years of overseas work and urged night-out guests never to drink glasses left unattended or already opened.
Calling it her first real brush with drugs, she said she wants to turn the scare into anti-abuse messages so others are not caught the same way. The Japanese thread would be her last personal public word on the case while she rests and cooperates with the inquiry, hoping to return to the decks in good health.
Away from the hospital, she has a guest turn in HOY77’s sitcom Your Security Guard Lee Bo-on. The production was anxious about her; the manager told reporters the whole Lee Bo-on team had sent concern, Mao worried she might disrupt the shoot, and both HOY and the director told her not to fret. For now the priority is the quiet discharge, the police statement and recovery after the ICU scare that briefly put a Hong Kong-based Japanese DJ at the centre of a poison-intent investigation.