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"I felt like I had a really hard time!"

One half of the 'Peru Two,' Michaella McCollum joined Ivan tonight on The Hard Shoulder to tell her story and talk about her new book

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18.07 5 Nov 2019


"I felt like I had a really hard time!"


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18.07 5 Nov 2019


She is a woman whose image was broadcast around the world in 2013, after she was caught trying to smuggle 11kg of cocaine from Lima to Madrid.

She faced a trial by media and from the Peruvian justice system, was jailed, and had to cope with surviving the country’s prison system in a language that she didn’t understand.

She has written a book about her experience, called ‘You’ll Never See Daylight Again’.

She is Michaella McCollum and she joined Ivan tonight on The Hard Shoulder to tell her story


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