Six years after being sentenced to prison for trafficking cocaine during a trip to Australia, Mélina Roberge confides in her traumatic experience.
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Then aged 22, she could not resist the invitation of a close friend to participate in the trafficking of a large quantity of drugs in exchange for a good sum of money and the trip of a lifetime which would allow him to feed his Instagram account.
“I was in a kind of critical situation. Me, my financial background and then other people in my family. I thought I could help so much. Me, it could help me. Then I had my personal needs which were completely selfish,” admits the young woman in an interview with TVA Nouvelles.
His five years in prison were a shock.
“I was more confused than anything else. Then 2000% out of my comfort zone,” she says.
Mélina Roberge found her loved ones in May 2021, but her return to Quebec soil was much more difficult than she would have thought.
“I was really sad, but I couldn’t understand why. Then I said to myself stop making your moumoune, you are at home, it’s been five years that you want to come back home, then there, why are you crying? , she says.
The young woman, who now enjoys a stable life with her husband, decided to share her experience in a book.
“If I was able to get over it, so much the better. But it would be selfish to keep all those great lessons I learned and all my knowledge, everything I know today. It would be selfish to keep it for me,” she says.