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Aged 19 and bored of where she grew up, Michaella craved sun and adventure. But her dream turned into a nightmare as she fell into an illicit world of drugs and excess.

Michaella tells the story of finding herself 5,000 miles from home in Peru, pretending to be a tourist at Machu Picchu, then walking 12kg of cocaine into an airport.

Michaella walked into Lima airport with a suitcase full of cocaine fearing the worst but hoped all the lies she'd been told about how easy it would be, were true. They weren't!

Michaella explains she was faced with a dilemma: stick to her story about being forced to carry the drugs and face 15 years in jail, or come clean and break her mother's heart.

Despite being sentenced to nearly 7 years in a maximum security prison, Michaella was home in less than 3. She reveals how she got out and how prison changed her for the better.