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Published Sunday, 12 January 2014

Michaella McCollum arriving at court in Lima for sentencing in December. (Getty)

Speaking to the Sunday Life, the 20-year-old insisted she was not a "coke head" during her time working and socialising in Ibiza.

McCollum worked in bars there but said drugs featured more at house parties.

"Everyone does it, I don't think I know anyone out there that didn't," she told the newspaper.

"It was normal to go straight from work to a party with people you maybe didn't even know because most of the people out there, like me, came over by themselves to work.

"Now I look back and think, 'how stupid was I?'"

She reiterated that it was at a house party where she met the 'Cockney', who was the middle man in a drug plot by a Columbian gang.

McCollum and Scottish woman Mellissa Reid, also 20, were arrested in August at Jorge Chavez Airport in Callao as they attempted to board a flight to Spain with 11kg of cocaine.

In December, following a plea bargain, they were both sentenced to six years and eight months in jail for attempting to smuggle the drugs worth 1.5m out of the South American country.

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Smuggler Michaella admits drug taking