Schapelle Corby makes huge admission about her imprisonment in Bali
Chapelle Corby has made a shock admission about her imprisonment in Bali after she was famously sentenced to nine years in prison for attempting to smuggle cannabis.
Chapelle, 46, was released from Kerobokan prison in 2014 and deported from Indonesia in 2017. Many believe she received a lifetime ban from entering the country.
But the convicted drug smuggler shocked her Instagram followers on Thursday when she revealed she had been banned from the tropical paradise for just six months.
Posting a throwback photo on a Bali beach, Chappelle shared a news quote saying “she has been given a lifetime travel ban from Indonesia.”
“Not true,” she explained in her caption. “They gave me a ban for 6 months.”
Chapelle Corby made a shocking revelation about her imprisonment in Bali after being sentenced to nine years in prison for attempting to smuggle cannabis.
She then shared another photo of herself happily drinking on a boat with friends, as well as a photo of herself behind prison bars.
It was here that Chappelle revealed whether she would ever return to the tropical island now that she is cleared to return.
“Although Bali is an ideal holiday destination. I have no burning desire to go back there. However, I can travel and enter,” she wrote.
Chappelle, 46, was released from Kerobokan prison in 2014 and deported from Indonesia in 2017, with many believing she received a lifetime ban from entering the country.
Chappelle has worked as a watchmaker and influencer since he was deported from Indonesia in 2017 after serving a reduced prison sentence and parole.
She was infamously convicted of smuggling cannabis into Indonesia and then sentenced to nine years in Kerobokan Prison in Bali.
After her arrest at Bali airport in October 2004, Chappelle said she knew nothing about the drugs that were found in her boogie board bag.
But the convicted drug smuggler shocked her Instagram followers on Thursday when she revealed she had been banned from the tropical paradise for just six months.
Chappelle also revealed whether she would ever return to the tropical island now that she is cleared to return.
After a series of sentence commutations, she was released on parole in 2014 and deported to Australia three years later.
Last year, it was reported that Chappelle had split from her Indonesian boyfriend Ben Panangian after 16 years together.
She announced on Instagram that her long-distance relationship with Ben was over and that she was looking for her Prince Charming.
The couple met in a Bali prison in 2006 while they were both serving sentences for drug offences, but have not seen each other in person since 2019.