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One of the infamous Peru Two drug mule duo has been celebrating a huge deal with streaming giants Netflix as she showed a massively different look from the photos that captured her arrest.
Northern Ireland-born Michaella McCollum was working as a part-time model and nightclub hostess in Ibiza, when she made world headlines for being arrested in Peru, carrying 11kg worth of cocaine out of the country.
She was captured alongside Glasgow-born sales assistant Melissa Reid.
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The double act had concealed the class A drug inside porridge and jelly packets to help mask the smell and to hide the evidence of any suspicious behaviour.
They were caught at Lima Airport before boarding a long-haul flight to Madrid, Spain by customs officers and were arrested.
Together, they were nicknamed the Peru Two.
Michaella was released on 31 March, 2016 after applying to be freed on parole after the initial prospect in remaining in Peru for up to six years. and Melissa was later released on 21 June of that year after the Peruvian authorities agreed to ‘expel’ her from the country.
Ahead of this week's release of docu-series High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule, she has been pictured celebrating with a huge cake.
Pictured wearing a low-cut light-brown dress, Michaella was seen in front of a massive drip cake, with the Netflix logo sticking out of the top on a glittery circle.
The documentary series was actually shown on the BBC last year, but is now being shown globally on Netflix from this weekend – apart from in Ireland.
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Last year, the mother-of-two posted a photo of herself on social media and her sons enjoying a trip to Dublin Zoo – although she admitted that the lads, called Rio and Rafael, were "disappointed they couldn't hold" the animals, presumably due to then-coronavirus restrictions.
Michaella's social media profile has boomed in the last year or so.
In May 2020, she only had 36,000 followers – which is around a third of what she has now.
She also released a book about her Peru ordeal in 2019, called You'll Never See Daylight Again – which was later turned into the BBC/Netflix series.
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To coincide with the BBC drama, she released an updated version of her memoir.
In it, she revealed more about her former drug-taking habits.
She said: "I’d taken so much of all of them (different drugs) during the five weeks I’d been there (in Ibiza) that I honestly didn’t see the problem.
"We were in that Ibizan bubble. In my addled logic, everyone I knew took drugs and they had to get them from somewhere.
"I saw lifting this package no differently to how I would see some kind of cash-in-hand payment – not legal, as such, but a minor crime at worst, like a traffic offence."
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