Actress Noriko Sakai has reportedly told Tokyo police she started inhaling illegal stimulants last summer at the urging of her husband, sources said Aug. 9.

Sakai inhaled the drugs with her husband, Yukichi Takaso, after heating them or by using a pipe, the sources quoted her as telling investigators.

Sakai was arrested Aug. 8 on suspicion of possessing an illegal stimulant and allegedly admitted to the charge.

She had been missing since Aug. 3, when her husband, a 41-year-old self-described professional surfer, was arrested after a police officer found a plastic bag containing stimulants in his underwear in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward.