Cameron Diaz shared that she believes she unwittingly served as a drug “mule” whereas trying to start out a modeling profession in Paris.
Desirous to see the world and in a position to save up for a Paris residence due to catalog modeling work she’d carried out again residence in California, the longer term star moved overseas as a younger girl in hopes of constructing it large as a mannequin. However, as she shared on the Second Life podcast final week, she now suspects that the one modeling job she obtained was truly a canopy for transporting medication.
“I didn’t work a day,” Diaz, now 49, stated of putting out as a mannequin in Paris. “I used to be there a full yr and I didn’t work sooner or later. I couldn’t e-book a job to save lots of my life. I obtained like one job, however actually I believe I used to be like a mule carrying medication to Morocco — I swear to God.
“It was earlier than TSA [Transportation Security Administration] or something like that,” she added. “It was like early ’90s. They gave me a suitcase that was locked that had my ‘costumes’ in it — quote, unquote.”
When Diaz arrived in Morocco, officers requested her who owned the suitcase, and whether or not or not it could possibly be opened. She ultimately advised them it was not hers.
“All the calculations in my head went working again, like ‘what the f*** is on this suitcase?’ I am this blond-haired, blue-eyed woman in Morocco, it is the ’90s, I am sporting torn denims and platform boots and my hair down, and that is actually unsafe.
“That was my solely job I ever obtained in Paris,” she added.
In fact, Diaz skyrocketed to fame shortly after. She scored her position reverse Jim Carrey in 1994’s The Masks whereas she was nonetheless residing in Paris, and shortly grew to become a global star, racking up Golden Globe nominations for roles in Vanilla Sky and Gangs of New York. However by 2018, she selected to retire from Hollywood, and went on to welcome a daughter, Raddix, with husband Benji Madden in 2019. However simply final month, Diaz introduced that she would step again into the appearing sport for the upcoming Netflix characteristic Again in Motion, through which she’ll star reverse Jamie Foxx.
“I really feel excited, however I do not know the way to do that,” Diaz defined in a recording posted to social media by Foxx, Yahoo Leisure beforehand reported.