Cameron Diaz Confesses She Was 'Used' To Smuggle Substances: 'I Was A Mule Carrying Drugs To Morocco'

Cameron Diaz is set to return to Hollywood after 8 years hiatus and the celebrity is spilling beans on her past. 

The actress recently recalled being 'used as a drug mule' during the nineties, just weeks before her acting career took off with a leading lady role in the comedy-fantasy blockbuster The Mask. 

The 49-year-old is preparing to star alongside Jamie Foxx in the aptly named comedy Back In Action. 

Talking about her early days in Hollywood, Cameron shares her struggle as a model in Paris, before gaining a job where she 'was a mule carrying drugs to Morocco'.

Speaking on podcast Second Life, Cameron explained that she had gathered enough money to move to Paris and pursue modelling - but had no luck in getting the right job.

She explained to podcast host Hillary Kerr: '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.'

Cameron also admitted frankly that she was not aware that she was carrying illegal substances until she arrived at the airport and went into panic mode once the realization set into her.

Continuing: 'This was the early Nineties and they gave me a locked suitcase that had my "costumes" in it.

'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.'

Avoiding at least a ten-year drug trafficking jail sentence, Cameron left the suitcase with officials as she returned back to France, citing that as the first and last job she had in Paris.

However, after her close escape at the airport, Cameron received her big break in the industry - as she was approached by a casting agent looking for a 'bombshell'. 

Producers were searching for a leading lady to star alongside Jim Carrey in what went on to be the 1994 hit, The Mask.

While they were hoping to nab Playmate and covergirl Anna Nicole Smith for the role, they expanded their horizons to other potential stars.

But Cameron had already tried to establish her career as a catalogue model and failed badly at it, so she was skeptical of this new opportunity, telling the casting agent: 'I don't act, that's not what I do.'

'I had just started my period. There was no way I was putting on anything sexy that day. I was like, "Are you kidding?", recalled the blonde beauty.

But describing director Chuck Russell as 'great', she explained that he told her: 'You’re my Tina Carlyle and I’m going to groom you for this part’, before offering it to her a week later.

Since then, the actress has had leading roles in blockbusters such as The Holiday, What Happens in Vegas and Charlie's Angels.

In 2014, Cameron decided to take a break from acting to focus on her family life with her husband Benji Maddox, and daughter Raddix.

Admitting she has been 'convinced out of retirement' by Jamie Foxx and Tom Brady, she is set to return to the big screen alongside the actors in the upcoming film Back In Action.

Following the un-retirement announcement last week, Cameron quipped: ''Jamie Foxx, only you could get me back in action!!! I can't frickin wait it's gonna be a blast!'