Cameron Diaz recalls being “used as a drug mule” in the 1990s, just weeks before her acting career took off with a lead female role in the comedy-fantasy blockbuster The Mask, the Daily Mail reported. Mail”.
It comes as the 49-year-old actress prepares to return to the big screen after an eight-year hiatus, preparing to star alongside Jamie Foxx in the aptly named comedy Back in Action.
At the beginning of her career, the actress was a model in Paris, and then she started working as a “mule that transports drugs to Morocco”.
In the Second Life podcast, Cameron explains that she saved enough money to move to Paris and work as a model, but had no luck finding work there.
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She explains to podcast host Hilary Kerr: “I was there for a whole year and I didn’t work a day. I couldn’t get a job to save my life. Then I got one job, but I really think I was a mule carrying drugs to Morocco – I swear to God”.
Cameron admits she didn’t know she was carrying banned substances until she arrived at the airport and panicked when she found out.
This happened in the early 1990s, when she was given “a locked suitcase with my ‘suits’ in it”.
Avoiding at least a ten-year sentence for drug trafficking, Cameron left the suitcase with officials when he returned to France, listing it as his first and last job in Paris.
But after her lucky escape, Cameron finally got her big break in Los Angeles – she was approached by a casting agent looking for “a woman who could cause a sensation”.
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