Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has broken her silence for the first time about her life since being released from prison.
The 42-year-old was caught trying to smuggle 4.2kgs of weed into Bali in 2005 and was sentenced to 20 years in the notorious Kerobokan prison.
She eventually served nine years after getting parole and successfully petitioning Indonesian authorities.
The biggest thing that Corby had to grapple with over the years she was locked up was her mental health.
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Speaking to The Kyle and Jackie O Show, she had a 'triple whammy' in 2008 when her dad died, her final appeal came back negative and her mum's partner died.
"I became a complete fruit loop," she said. "I couldn't even move, people would handfeed me and I couldn't swallow; they had to put water down my throat.
"I was out of my mind, literally for about four years. I couldn't even speak. People would have to massage my feet and hands because they would cramp. I was in such a hell in my mind."
When she was deported from Bali in 2017, she had to come to grips with a new world.
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Imagine going to sleep in 2005 and waking up twelve years later and seeing the likes of smartphones, Uber, music streaming services and other fancy inventions.
"Everything is wrapped up," she said. "You want to buy a carrot and it's wrapped in plastic, styrofoam, all this plastic.
"And then they take the plastic bags away, but it's still in the fruit-and-veg section. It's full of plastic, so I don't get it."
Corby says she's learned to deal with people's opinions of her she doesn't care whether people think she did or didn't do it. She has maintained her innocence from the get go and insisted she didn't know about the weed stashed in the boogie board cover.
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"It doesn't upset me, people are entitled to their opinions," she said.
"They're never going to say it to my face, but there are a lot of people who have a second uncle who worked with a friend who was the cousin of somebody who definitely knows I did it. I just walk away. I don't need to live my life defending myself ... I've got some really dedicated supporters."
When asked about her future, she said that she just wants to focus on doing creative things. She got cheeky and coy when quizzed on whether she could end up on a reality TV show, telling the hosts 'never say never'.
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