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A former adult star who was caught with £21million worth of cocaine on a cruise around the world cruise has revealed what she planned to do with her cut.

Isabelle Lagace, aged 26 at the time of the 2016 bust, was put behind bars for her role in attempting to smuggle 29kg of the class A drug through Australian customs alongside accomplice Melina Roberge, who was 22.

The pair had accepted a drug trafficker’s offer of £57,000 and first-class cruise tickets to hide the illegal substances.

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And now, following the pair’s release from Sydney prison cell, Lagace has signed a deal to appear in a new documentary on her experience and has spoken to the media.

"If I didn't get caught I would probably be a big a***hole with a lot of money," she told 60 Minutes.

She was released in February 2020, whilst Roberge was imprisoned for longer because she didn’t plead guilty early and was freed in May last year.

Talking about her time in prison, she said: "They took me to a maximum security called Silverwater, opened the door and said 'welcome to Australia'."

After cops made the huge bust, Lagace and Roberge made headlines alongside a seven-member drug cartel described as a “floating drug warehouse” by authorities.

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They appeared at Central Local Court and officials revealed Lagace had been a stripper at a nightclub and had made short porn films whilst Roberge was sexually involved with a “sugar daddy”.

The women from Quebec, who were 23 at the time boarded the luxury cruise ship in June 2016 as drug mules to pay off major debts they had racked up.

Roberge revealed a "sugar daddy" recruiter told them they could earn up to £55,000 if they walked the cocaine through customs undetected.

Roberge was told "to take pictures of myself in exotic locations and post them on Instagram to receive likes" as a decoy for the operation.

The ship made stops at Bermuda, Panama and Ecuador and the Peruvian capital of Lima to become a “floating warehouse” of drugs.

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