Cameron Diaz shared that she believes she unwittingly served as a drug 'mule' while attempting to start a modeling career in Paris.
Eager to see the world and save up for a Paris apartment thanks to cataloguing modeling work she'd done back home in California, the future star moved abroad as a young woman hoping to make it big as a model.
But, as she shared on the Second Life podcast last week, she now suspects that the only modeling job she got was a cover for transporting drugs.
She didn’t work a day, Diaz, now 49, said of striking out as a model in Paris. She was there a whole year and didn’t work one day.
She added it before TSA [Transportation Security Administration] or anything like that. It was like the early '90s.
When Diaz arrived in Morocco, officials asked her who owned the suitcase and whether or not she could open it. She eventually told them it was not hers.
All of the calculations in my head went running back, like 'what the f*** is in this suitcase? I'm this blond-haired, blue-eyed girl in Morocco; it's the '90s; I'm wearing torn jeans and platform boots, and my hair is unsafe.
Of course, Diaz skyrocketed to fame shortly after. She scored her role opposite Jim Carrey in 1994's The Mask while she was still living in Paris and soon became an international star, racking up Golden Globe nominations for roles in Vanilla Sky and Gangs of New York.
But by 2018, she chose to retire from Hollywood and went on to welcome a daughter, Raddix, with husband Benji Madden in 2019. But last month, Diaz announced that she would step back into the acting game for the upcoming Netflix feature Back in Action, in which she'll star opposite Jamie Foxx.
She feels excited, but I don't know how to do this, Diaz explained in a recording posted to social media by Foxx.
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