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Cameron Diaz believes she was used as a drug mule.
The 49-year-old actress struggled to land work as a model when she moved to Paris earlier in her career and even when she finally booked a job, it turned out not to be what it seemed as she was asked to transport a locked suitcase to another country.
Speaking on the โSecond Lifeโ podcast, she said: โI started working as a catalogue model and I got enough money to move to Paris and get an apartment, which I shared with a girl who is still one of my best friends.
โBut I was there a full year and didnโt work one day. I couldnโt book a job to save my life. Then I got one job but, really, I think I was a mule carrying drugs to Morocco โ I swear to God.
โThis was the early โ90s and they gave me a locked suitcase that had my โcostumesโ in it.โ
It was only when Cameron was at the airport in Morocco and was asked to open the case that she realised how risky her conduct had been.
She continued: โ[I thought] โWhat the f*** is in that suitcase? Iโm like this blonde-haired blue-eyed girl in Morocco, itโs the nineties, Iโm wearing torn jeans and platform boots and my hair down. Iโm like โฆ this is really unsafe.
I told them, I donโt know, itโs not mine, Iโve no idea whose it is.โ That was the only job I got in Paris.โ
Cameron left the suitcase with customs officials when she returned to France after the modelling job and soon afterwards was cast in her first ever film, The Maskโ.
However, the blonde beauty admitted she thought her agent was โinsaneโ when she was urged to try out for the role of Tina Carlyle.
She recalled: โI thought โare you insane?โ I donโt act, first off โฆ itโs not what I do.โ
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