Yea until her core audience fucked off to yuko and shondo
Except by that time theyve already had WORST CRED one could imagine from the big company with people already figuring out what happened before niji even confirmed it down to details. Here, silence may be better than termination notice with slander, but it would still tank the stocks hard, just cause 2% and last cup of coffee incident would have needed explanations, with multiple artists by that time already confirming that they have given perms.
Basically, in most situations silence is very mid option, but context usually makes silence worse, paints you as secretive and dishonest corpo and spooks potential viewers, esp those that were only watching your graduated talent.