A model previously jailed for attempting to smuggle £1 million of heroin into Ireland has shared the “horrors” she experienced behind bars.
Tereza Hluskova was seized by customs officials in Pakistan’s AIIama IqbaI International airport in January 2018 in possession of 8.5kg of heroin.
In 2019, the model was sentenced to eight years and eight months in prison, but was released in 2022 after a series of appeals.
She claimed she went to Pakistan to work as a model, where the narcotics were placed in her suitcase, against her knowledge.
She has now decided to 'let people know what really happened'.
Hluskova has since released four videos explaining how she ended up in Pakistan, and describing the 'horrors she went through'.
After she dropped out of school in her home town of Uherské Hradiště, she was offered a job as an escort whilst working in a café there, reports Mail Online.
Flown to Belgium, Hluskova said a woman called Sara took her 'under the wing… to check whether I was suitable for the job'.
The 27-year-old said: “She told me to go and have sex with her husband to check if I'm worth it or not. And so I did what I had to do. A prostitute doesn't enjoy sex, because in order to survive, she has to switch to robot mode and work."
Hluskova said that to 'cope' with the sex work, she abused drugs and alcohol fed to her by Sara, in order to 'release her inhibitions and fear'.
The next day, she was taken to a Belgian bar to meet further clients as an escort.
Hluskova recalled: "I had a meeting there with a man named Ludo, all I knew was that he had red glasses and a moustache.
"When I reached for the doorknob, I thought I was going to throw up or run away. But I said no. I was already in it so I entered."
When she finally arrived in Pakistan, it was not what she expected.
She moved into a house that had no electricity with her 'keeper': "It was a disaster. Dirt everywhere on the ground, not even sidewalks, but scattered dirt," Hluskova recalled.
They took her to a "kind of field where there was only dirt" for the photoshoot, and despite waiting two months, the photos never appeared online.
After she was finally allowed to return home, Hluskova was arrested at the airport after customs found the smuggled drugs in her luggage.
In a video released online, a Pakistani customs official is shown discovering the drugs hidden in the suitcase while Hluskova breaks down into tears.
She was convinced the police were "going to kill her" and described how she was locked up had to deal with sweltering summers.
Hluskova said: "No family, locked up like animals , humiliation. And I try to shake such thoughts out of my head right away, but sometimes it doesn't go away right away.”
The Czech woman is rebuilding her life, and now works as a waitress.
