Schapelle Corby makes rare mention of Kerobokan prison life after serving nine years for smuggling cannabis into Indonesia
Australian convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has made a rare mention of her nine-year stint in Bali's notorious Kerobokan prison for smuggling 4.2 kg of cannabis into Indonesia in 2004.
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Schapelle Corby has made a rare mention of her sensational nine-year imprisonment in Bali for smuggling cannabis.
The 47-year-old Australian convicted drug smuggler reposted a photo on Instagram Stories on Tuesday comparing the national and international versions of her 2006 autobiography, which tells of her world-famous ordeal.
Entitled My Story in Australia and No More Tomorrows internationally, Corby's book recounts her survival in Bali's notorious Kerobokan prison.
She served nine of her 20 years sentence at Kerobokan after being convicted of smuggling 4.2 kg of cannabis in her boogie board bag while travelling into Denpasar Airport from Brisbane in 2004.
The national cover of her book shows her dressed in a floral shirt and standing before the barbed wire walls of Kerobokan.
The international version has a photo taken during her arrest in which then-27-year-old Corby looks alone and terrified behind the bars of her prison cell as she awaits trial.
About 20 years on, Shapelle maintains she is innocent and seldom mentions her prison life during which she suffered from severe depression.
Instead, Mercedes Corby's sister enjoys a quiet life with her mother Rosleigh Rose and dog Lucielle in the Queensland area of Logan, where she creates resin clocks for a living.
Her clocks retail for around $85 each and are handcrafted to resemble a natural ocean and decorated with seashells.
Corby also leverages her high-profile status by making Cameos for $60.80 each in which she gives out birthday messages and offers encouragement.
Between juggling work commitments, the 47-year-old gives blood at an Australian Red Cross center and encourages her more than 100,000 Instagram followers to also donate their supply and save lives.
"It's that time again. Have you booked your next blood donation?" she wrote last month in the caption of a photo of herself holding a sign that reads 'We give life' at the Red Cross.
People thanked her in the comments section, with one person saying, "Blood donors saved my life and, years later, my son's life."
"You know, Schapelle, you've been through so much hardship, but you want to send love into the world... you're quite the amazing person!" another person said.
Corby was released from prison on parole in 2014 on the condition that she leave Bali on 27 May 2017.
She was deported on that date, and after switching flights at the last minute, she arrived at Brisbane airport but slipped away via a non-public exit to avoid a large media pack.