Last week, Cameron Diaz shared on the Second Life podcast that she believes the one modeling job she had was actually a cover for transporting drugs. According to the Charlie’s Angels star, weeks prior to her landing her breakout role in The Mask she struggled to find work as a model in Paris and was finally hired for one gig. On the Second Life podcast, Diaz stated:
“I started working as a catalogue model and I got enough money to move to Paris and get an apartment, which I shared with a girl who is still one of my best friends. But I was there a full year and didn’t work one day. I couldn’t book a job to save my life. Then I got one job but, really, I think I was a mule carrying drugs to Morocco — I swear to God.”
Diaz said she slowly came to realize what was happening when she reached customs at the border. She continued:
“This was the early ’90s, and they gave me a locked suitcase that had my ‘costumes’ in it. It was before TSA [Transportation Security Administration] or anything like that. I’m this blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl in Morocco. I’m wearing torn jeans and platform boots, with my hair down — this is really unsafe…I told them, I don’t know, it’s not mine, I’ve no idea whose it is.’ That was the only job I got in Paris.”
The actress said she left the suitcase with custom officials when she returned to France after the modeling job.
Cameron Diaz Briefly Joins Others Like Tom Brady in the Un-Retirement Trend
Before stepping away from acting to concentrate on “so many parts of my life…that I wasn’t touching and that I wasn’t managing,” Diaz was considered to be the queen of romantic comedies. She married Benji Madden, lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the band Good Charlotte, 2015 and the two share a 2-year-old daughter named Raddix.
Now eight years later, Diaz is preparing to star in a new action-comedy aptly titled Back in Action, alongside Jamie Foxx.Diaz credits Foxx and Tom Brady for convincing her to come out of retirement. Jamie Foxx announced Diaz’s comeback news by posting a voice conversation between them and football star Tom Brady on Twitter.
One film source warned don’t expect to see her back as a full-time actress, stating that she does not want acting to overtake her life like it did before.