An ex-porn star who was caught with a former escort with 15st of cocaine following a luxury cruise around the world is set to break her silence on the extraordinary plot.
Isabelle Lagace and Melina Roberge made international headlines with their bikini selfies as they sailed for 39 nights on the MS Sea Princess via South America and Tahiti with £21million worth of cocaine in 2016.
Lagace was aged 28 when Australian Border Force officials stormed the £11,400 first-class cabin she shared with Roberge, who was 22 at the time.
She is now going to break her silence for the first time in a TV documentary.
Lagace has signed an exclusive agreement to tell "her personal story (to) dissuade others from getting involved in drug trafficking", Daily Mail Australia reports.
The documentary, which will be released in both French and English, will be recorded this month in Sydney.
The pair have since been released from prison in Sydney and deported back to Quebec.
Lagace and Roberge were part of a seven-member drug cartel onboard that was dubbed a "floating drug warehouse".
Only one other associate went to prison alongside Lagace and Roberge.
Following the pair's arrest, it emerged that Lagace had been a stripper at a Montreal nightclub and appeared in pornography films.
It later emerged that Roberge became involved with a "sugar daddy" she met in a nightclub who paid for her expenses in return for working as an escort for men he introduced her to in Morocco and Montreal.
This same man was said to have promised both women up to £57,000 if they could get 15st of cocaine through Australian customs undetected.
They were offered first-class cruise tickets and told to "take pictures in exotic locations and post them on Instagram " to act as glam decoys for the drug importation.
In June 2016, Lagace and Roberge were flown first class to the UK and boarded the Sea Princess at Southampton.
They cruised to New York, Bermuda, through the Panama Canal, to Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Tahiti and New Zealand.
During their trip, the pair snapped luxury bikini pictures of themselves drinking from coconuts, posing with armed soldiers on a beach and on the back of quad bikes.
One social media post by Lagace read: "If I offend you, cry me a river. I'll bring snacks and a raft. I will literally float down your tears; eating chips and working on my tan."
In Sydney's Central Local Court, Lagace entered a plea of guilty to attempting to import a commercial quantity of cocaine.
Lawyer Ragni Mathur tried to argue that young Roberge was unaware of the cocaine stashed in her friend's luggage in the small cabin they shared.
Rewarded a discount for pleading guilty early, Lagace was sentenced to a maximum of seven years and six months in jail and was released in February 2021.
In April 2018, a tearful Roberge received a longer sentence than Lagace because she had not pleaded guilty early.
She is believed to have served her minimum sentence and was deported in May last year.
