in "post game" on the "meet the press" facebook page sponsored by boeing. really needed a vacation. i wanted to get as far away as possible from the life i was leading. >> welcome to colombia. >> i felt free for the first time in so long. i was not looking for romance, but i was open to it. i trusted him. but that was a complete mistake. >> if you decide that you don't want to carry the drugs, you are never going home. >> that is just the beginning of my nightmare.

i'm in a situation and i can't get out of it. >> we are watching you. >> i knew deep down that it was not going to work. i just would not survive being here. if i was fast enough i could get to the top of the roof and jump. ♪ in 2011, i am in my last year of university finish iing degree. i had big plans. i was going to become a social worker and help children. i see my future ahead of me. and it is looking amazing. i juggled school. i juggled looking after my boys. i am going to be the strong

independent single mother with the help of my family and friends. it was exciting. ♪ stay stay forever >> that night i asked my mom to watch my boys. and i went to my friend's birthday party. >> tommy! >> i was having a good time drinking, and having jell-o shots, and i noticed that she was going into the bedroom a lot, and i asked her about it. and she brought up that she had bought some cocaine. >> what? >> yes. >> you are joke me? >> and she brought it out. before she gave it to me, she said, you don't have to do this. i said, i know, i want to try it." so i tried it. and now, the feeling that you get when you take in that first li line. i am like, this feels great.

you feel kind of like on top of the world. you talk. you drink. and you feel wide awake. for me, it was awesome. ♪ stay stay are forever [ sirens ] >> it turned into something more than just fun. it was not fun after about two months. you think that you are controlling the drug, but the drug becomes you. i begin working at this bar.

at the strip club. my life was definitely starting to go off of the rails. i was starting to slip really fast. i felt that my life was crumbling down around me. cocaine was affecting my family dramatically, and my kids hardly saw me. i asked my mom to take them more and more often. i didn't want them to see me going down a path of destroying myself. i reached my rock bottom. i can't go on. i can't do this anymore.

and i realize that i need to change. i need help. i called my friend sepa and i tell him i need your help. zpa and lucio are my friends, and i have known them for almost two years. they are business parters from canada, but they from colombia. they don't drink or do drugs, and i really enjoyed my time with sep and lucio, and amazing friends, and especially sepa, because i don't have to be high or drunk around them. i can be me. i remember him telling me. >> you are a strong woman. you deserve to be free of this life. and he asked me again and again, come visit us in colombia, and you will get to meet my family and our friends, and you don't have to worry about a thing.

just buy your plane ticket, abby. >> think about it. >> but in this moment, i make the decision, and i say, i'm red dirks i need this vacation, please help me. i really needed to get as far away from the life i was leading. >> yeah, i will come. >> and i just hope that someone can learn from my mistakes. i remember walking through the airpo airport. i was so excited and i was like, yes, i will be seeing sepa, but he is not there. i realize it is lucio. and lucio has come to get me. i am a little disappointed. >> welcome to colombia. >> i am sure that the moment that i saw him, i was not as happy as if it were sepa.

>> here, let me take your bag. >> but lucio, as always, he is the perfect gentleman, and he always, always carries my bag. he told me that we have to go catch a bus. we arrive in pamplona, and i was so excited. i see sepa for the first time. i give him the biggest hug that you can possibly think of. and it was just great. he just made me feel really welcome. i'm on the back of the motorbike with sepa, and i tell him to go faster, because i love speed. my hair is flipping out from underneath my helmet, and i am feeling so free. and i just couldn't get enough of it. my two weeks in pamplona were amazing. i got to relax and to really find myself.

>> salud. >> salud. >> we went to a bar and we danced. there was no drugs there, thank goodness, because this would be definitely something that would test my will to stay clean. this party really proved to me that i could do it. i think that lucio picked up on the relationship vibe between sepa and i, and i think that he was a little jealous of that fa fact. i was not looking for romance, but i was open to it. i felt that a relationship was not just friendship anymore. i was happy with everything that had happened in my two weeks. but the day before i needed to leave to catch my plane, sepa told me that i can't come home with you. i have to do a few things before i go home. >> what is this?

no. >> i was really upset. he had promised me that he would come home with me. and he said, i promise you. >> as soon as i can get tlx i will come to see you. >> i trust himd. >> it is fine. i forgive you. >> and yeah. umm, our good-bye was not as happy as i wanted it to be. but i was trying to stay strong, because i thought that i will be seeing him, and seeing him soon, and this is fine. >> abby, come on, we are going to nisz bus. >> lucio told me. don't worry, abby, i will get you home, but we had to go to bogota that night because he needed to see his buddies. >> tomorrow, we will go go to bogota and you will get on an airplane back home. sound good? >> okay, okay. >> i had no reason to mistrust

him, and so i was like, let's go. ♪ >> we arrive in kubata and catch a cab. >> come on, it is just over here. >> we pull up in front of this house. i walk in. lucio. >> que pasa. >> and that caught me off guard. the introductions is that this is abby. >> he is my boss. >> boss? >> the vibe i got walking into the room was off. i felt awkward.

i didn't quite feel welcomed and my initial feeling is that this is not good. i did not want to think about the fact that my mind was telling me that maybe you should walk out of that door and catch the bus. i should have. i really should have. >> and these guys are partying already. do you want a beer or something? >> no, i am feeling pretty tired, and i am just going to go to the bed. show me to my room? >> yeah, upstairs. >> i am not feeling great about this situation. but i am focused on the fact that i am going home tomorrow. there was only a mattress on the floor and nothing else. >> sweet dreams. and if you need anything, just let me know. >> hindsight is 20 20i and you realize what you didn't do and you should have done, but you can't change it now.

i wake up in the morning. i am going downstairs and bringing my bag down. one of the things they noticed is that lucio was not helping me with the bag. he always, always carry misbag. i get downstairs, and lucio is like -- >> we have a problem. >> what do you mean you have a problem? what is it? >> he is like, you can't go home. i am like, what? >> what? what do you mean? >> we have a problem, and you can't go home. >> yeah, you keep saying that there is a problem, and what is the problem. >> he said, well, you can go home -- >> but only if you carry drugs. inflammatory substances that cause all your symptoms, including nasal congestion and itchy, watery eyes. flonase is an allergy nasal spray

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because i am thinking, you have to be kidding me. >> lucio, come on. >> three kilos, three kilos. >> and it is sinking in that he is serious. >> i came here to be clean. >> i told him that i don't want to be a drug mule. >> he told me that you have got no money, and you can't speak a word of spanish, and you have no clue how to get back to bogota to catch your plane. what are you going to do? >> lucio, please? lucio before all of this happen happened is the perfect gentleman, and now, i don't even know him. >> oh, god. my, god. i went back up to my room.

i am looking at my phone. i have no international minutes. i cannot make calls. my phone is no use. i am in a situation, and i can't get out of it. >> tabby. >> a little while later -- >> so have you changed your m d mind? >> no. you know, i am not taking drugs to canada. >> i am like, i'm not taking them home. i tried to ask him. why can't you just put me on a bus and i will find my way back to bogota, and i tell him, i won't say anything to anyone. i won't say anything.

>> no. later that day i realize that is the time i was supposed to be catching a six-hour flight back home to my kids, to my mom, to my family, and i was not going to be going home. i cried myself to sleep that night. hoping that when i wakep, this is a really bad dream. at this time, lucio is getting more ander more pushy about wanting to know whether i have changed my mind. >> tabby, this is really the only way.

>> i keep telling him no o. and you know, my mom is going to be wondering why i am not home. i tell him if you don't let me call my mom, she is going to call the authorities. is that what you want? and so lucio decided it is a better idea to take me to call my mom. lucio is on my left, and he m e makes sure that he keeps a strong hold on my arm. i am looking around me. and i'm thinking that maybe i could tell someone or maybe i could grab someone and ask them for help. >> tabby, tabby. don't do that again, okay. >> but, i am too scared, because i am in another country that they won't understand what i am trying to tell them. >> tabby, don't tell your mom anything. just tell her that you can't come home because you are having

such a great time in colombia. i get on the phone. >> hey, mom. >> i am on the phone and i am trying to tell her, and trying to tell her that there is something wrong. mom, i want to come home, but i can't. >> the boys miss you, tabby. >> i miss you guys, and please, just understand that i want to be home. i can't come home. >> what? >> and just as i was about to say more than that -- you need to understand that i really want to come home. lucio cut the phone off. >> i know what you are trying to do, and i told you not to do it. i am not keeping track of the time, and each day is melting into another, and each and everyday lucio asks me -- >> have you changed your mind?

>> and as hard as it was not to go home, i had to stand my groun ground. >> so have you changed your mind, tabby? >> no. >> i think that i was embarrassing him in front of his boss and his buddies. >> fine. fine, tabitha! >> i feel that he had told them that i would be submissive and that i would do what i was told and do it willingly, but i continued to be stubborn and that annoyed him even more. it is going on the third week. i am becoming more and more

sick, because they weren't giving me any food. i was so weak. i wanted to give in, but i don't. so i went downstairs this night to ask him for some juice. >> lucio. >> i needed something sweet. water was not cutting it. >> tabby, you want something from me? >> yes, if i could have something to eatt or drink. >> i will give you something to drink drink. >> he would not give me food, but willing to give me juice, so i settled for juice. i took the juice and i drank it, and it had a little bit of the edge to it. >> good? give her more. >> and i let it go, because i thought that because i had not had anything to eat or drink other than water for a few days that it was just me. >> what was that?

you want some juice. >> whatever he gave me was really strong. >> what was that? >> juice. >> lucio put drugs in my juice. no no. >> and i started going upstairs. i tried closing the door. and hefay stopped the door from closing. they pushed me on the bed. i don't know how long it lasted f for.

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sitting there having flashbacks of everything that happened from the moment it began to the moment it ended. feeling listless, feeling broken and numb. i take three showers and scrubbing myself to the point th that i am red. red as a lobster. that feeling of them on me, i wanted them off of my skin. i feel dirty. i was scared, and i just wanted

to go home. all i wanted was to see my boys. that's all i wanted was to go home. but i did want to take drugs. what was i going to do? later that morning, lucio asked me if i changed my mind. same question he had asked me eve everyday before that.

you can go home, only if you carry the drugs. and this time he is like, wait. don't answer it yet. if you decide that you don't want to carry the drugs, you are never going home. and my buddies need to make money somehow. tabby, you areare a beautiful canadian woman, and there are lots of ways they can make money from you. >> i knew what he was saying they would force me into prostitution if i chose not to take the drugs home. >> tabby. so what do you say? >> at that moment, i made the decision to carry the drugs. >> i think that is your best option, tabitha.

>> after i agree to smuggle the drug drugs. >> okay. tabby. >> lucio walks in with a box. >> you do exactly what i tell you the do, and it is going to be over. >> lucio opens the box and reveals a belly. you are going to put the drugs on you in your fake pregnant belly. he put the belly up to me. i looked at it, and i am like, are you serious. >> it does not feel real. >> shut up. shut up and put it on. >> that is when they brought out the drugs. two black packages. >> arms up. arms up. come on. put it on me as tight as possible. it hurt so much. and then they are taping me at

the top underneath my breasts in the middle of the belly and underneath in the pelvic area and every time i took a breath on top of that, i felt like i was suffocating. >> beautiful. that is nice. look at that. huh? all right h. this is beautiful. beautiful. we are going to to go to the airport and past security and you are going to fly to canada and as simple as that. >> i u knew deep down that it was not going to work. 17 hours on a flipping bus with lucio. i am sicker than a dog. because i had barely eaten for three weeks. 12 hours later, we stop, and

there is a police checkpoint. the police officer comes on the bus. and they are asking for everyone's i.d. i am freaking out, because i have drugs on me, and i know it, but they don't. a lot of things were going through my mind, but mainly i was scared. >> gracias. >> the police aofficer comes up to us, and lucio as planned does all of the talking. >> buenos knnochos. >> inside, i am screaming, tell him, tell him. in the moment, i was scared of lucio, and what possibly could

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four points from february. now, back to "lockup." ♪ >> just breathe, tabby. >> arriving at the airport was chaotic. lucio gives me the biggest fakest hug that you can possibly think of. my skin was crawling. i did not want him touching me. i was disgusted by it. and i was pushing him away and

he kept holding me, and he is like -- we are watching you, tab by. we are watching you. >> at the check-in, i looked around me. i am thinking, i just need to get away and then i ran to the bathroom and i am going to take this thing off of me. i go through the door and i look for an empty stall. i immediately lifted up my shirt. and i am yanking, bit is not going anywhere.

i can't get it off of me, and i am getting frustrated, because i don't have any scissors and i can't cut the tape. i take my credit card, because i have nothing else to cut the tape with. and i am trying my damnedest to get it off. it would not budge. i got my watch, and i realize that i have no time, and i want to get on that plane. i am off of option os, and i can't get it off of me. so i make a decision at that moment to try to get through immigration. i leave the bathroom and i go up to the entrance to immigration. all i am thinking though is that

i am going home. i am going to see my boys. and the police officer is just waiting for me. i walk up slowly. and she motions me to put my arms up. and she begins the pat-down by starting underneath my armpits, and she moves down. she begins tot pat me towards the front of the belly. and she gets to the middle part of the fake belly. and she stops. she knows that there is something wrong and i can see it in her eyes. she puts her h hand up to signal wait.

and she goes to talk to her co-work er. and i am freaking out. and i knew that it was over. then he goes, pasa, pasa, you can go. i am like, are you serious? and so i go through immigration, and after they stamp my passport, i am thinking, i am just going to get to the airplane, maybe, just maybe i will get home. i am walking towards my plane. i stop. i look over my shoulder and there is no point in running, because i knew that it was overwith. they came over took me by the

elbows and then we get to this room. i walk in, and there are three officers in there. they are all talking and i'm understanding nothing. then she begins to cut the belly off of me. it is slow. and they are pulling the tape off of me. it hurts. finally, they pull it off of me. they see inside the belly and they see the two packages of the drugs drugs. >> i just want to go home. i just want to go home. >> they opened it up and they tested it. it was cocaine. >> i just want to go home. >> that is not going to happen. you are not going home. i'm trying to get the first.

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i think of sepa and all of the times that we spent together. and how close i felt to him, and then three weeks later, that picture of him is ripped and my realization is that he didn't care about me. he used me, and that is the worst of it. he tore my heart out and stomped on it. and he let what happened to me happen. that is worse than what lucio did to me. i get to station, and they book

me. i arrive at the building where they put me in the holding ce cells. i am led through the lobby of homeless men and women and prostitutes and it stinks of urine and body odor. i am trying my hardest not to step on anyone. trying not the fall or touch the walls. then they lead me through the door. into my cell, and it is filled with men. and all i can think about is me, 16 men. >> no, no, no. who is going to protect me? >> no, no no! i am feeling really scared.

my worst fear is that they were going to hurt me or rape me, and i did not want to be violated all over again. >> please, somebody help me, please. and that is when i met this guy. >> you know, i heard a canadian woman was coming here. >> please, just leave me alone, please. >> i am going the layoff, okay, and just relax. >> he told everyone there not to speak to me unless i speak to them and not to come near me unless he was in the room. he was being protective. >> all right. we will start over. my name is frank. what is your name? >> tabitha. >> what is your name? >> tabitha. >> oh, my god. your parents don't like you? what is that?

there you go. you have teeth. >> why are you being so nice to me? >> he said, i just want to help you. i am not asking for anything in return, i am just asking for your friendship. >> i was fortunate to have someone in my corner already finally, and he had good connections, and he had a good lawye lawyer, and he offered me help when i needed it most. and he offer ed me kindness whe i had seen so little of it. i am transferred to a women's prison here in bogota, and right before i left, frank gave me a big hug and wished me luck. and gave me some money. he was definitely my guardian angel. i was thinking of going to the prison, but i had no clue of what to expect, and i am

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#. after the first two months, my state of mind was pretty dismal. i'm in dispair feeling like i just wouldn't survive being here. i was really suicidal. that's all i could think about day and day out, how i could end my life. so i thought ffs fast enough, i could get to the top of the roof and jump. as long as i made sure i hit my head first, the pain wouldn't be too long. in this day in particular the opportunity presented itself. i walk up the stairs, and i get to the top.

i'm thinking at the very least i'm going to jump as the guards were shooting at me. i'm thinking about my family. i'm thinking they'll be better off without me. a switch went off. if i kill myself, what am i

proving to my kids? that was when i changed my mind. and when i was smoking my cigarette, i'm thinking i'm a survivor. i can do this. yes, i'm a disgrace. yes, i've made some horrible mistakes, some horrible decisions. if given a second chance at life, i'm going to make good on it. i'm going to make it home to my kids. i'm going to make it better. i'm going to make better decisions. after i make my decision to not commit suicide and to survive, i meet with my lawyer that i was kbrused to by frank, and she

explains to me they had not been able to find the men that forced me to do what i did, and i have no other evidence, i can't prove that to a judge. so she tells me it would be wise to accept a plea bargain for a shorter sentence. so i took the plea bargain. i accept that i was guilty, because i was. i was guilty. i was carrying those drugs. then my lawyer told me she could get me four years and house arrest. it was what i had been searching for, that lifeline. because i knew when i entered that prison i wouldn't survive 8 or 12 years behind bars. but i knew i could survive four years and house arrest. and that made the difference.

i could see the light at the end of the tunnel. i have a smile on my face because i know i'm walking through those doors and i'm not coming back. welcome. this is my home. the most important thing to me is to return home to my boys and my mom. this is the living room, and over here is the kitchen. i can't wait until the day comes when i wrap my hands around my kids. and this is my cozy little bedroom. that's what keeps me going.

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