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Peru two drugs mule Michaella McCollum Connolly has finally broken her recent silence six months after returning home from prison.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old model, from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, was jailed in Peru 2013 after she was caught with a pal concealing cocaine worth \u00a31.5million in their luggage.<\/p>\n

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She was stopped with Melissa Reid from Glasgow at Jorge Ch\u00e1vez International Airport in Lima, when their luggage was found to contain 11 kg of cocaine.<\/p>\n

They initially claimed they had been forced to carry the drugs by an armed gang but subsequently pleaded guilty to drug smuggling, <\/span>reports Belfast Live.<\/p>\n

Both women were sentenced to six years and eight months in prison in December 2013.<\/p>\n

On Saturday McCollum Connolly posted a pouting selfie along with a message on her open Facebook page with her long blonde hair falling around her face.<\/p>\n

And she wrote: \u201cNow that I have the chance, I just want to thank everyone who has supported myself and family through these past few years. Please know I truly appreciate each one who cared and had my back.\u201d<\/p>\n

She makes reference to numerous messages sent to her since the start of her Peruvian drugs ordeal, many of which she has not responded to yet.<\/p>\n

And she says she believes she opportunities lie ahead for her after a long period of retrospection.<\/p>\n

McCollum Connolly explained: \u201cIt has been a long ride to get where i am today but it just shows that when we fight hard enough for something we can achieve it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething to have in mind; when one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for all the sweet messages I have not got reading them all just yet or got a chance to reply to them but I will definitely make a good attempt to get back to you all.”<\/p>\n

Previously McCollum told the Sunday Mirror how she lived in a mosquito-infested cell with seven other women sharing an overflowing hole in the ground for a toilet<\/p>\n

Her bed was a concrete shelf and the food given to her and other inmates was crawling with maggots.<\/p>\n

McCollum found the gangster inmates so ­terrifying she thought she was going to be \u201ceaten alive\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Michaela McCollum with her new friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And she feared she would be in <\/span>jail for life, claiming that her prison ­psychologist told her she would \u201cnever see the light of day\u201d when she rejected his advances.<\/p>\n

But McCollum, from Northern Ireland, claims she clawed her way up the jail pecking order by using money and M&S underwear sent by her family to fund a thriving beauty salon which she ran from her cell.<\/p>\n

Michaela was paroled after serving two years and three months in jail and returned home in August last year.<\/p>\n

McCollum Connolly and Reid had each faced the possibility of a 15-year prison term but made plea bargains to secure shorter sentences.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following their conviction they were moved from Lima\u2019s Virgen de Fatima jail to Ancon 2 prison, dubbed \u2018Hell\u2019s Hacienda\u2019.<\/p>\n

Last year McCollum Connolly was granted probation before returning home in August.<\/p>\n

She reportedly celebrated by partying with her family into the small hours.<\/p>\n

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