‘I thought I was eating my dad’s human flesh’: Schapelle Corby reveals the terrifying psychosis she suffered in prison caused her to turn vegetarian
Schapelle Corby is set to appear on Seven’s new military-style reality show SAS Australia.
And on Monday’s premiere episode, the 43-year-old will detail how spending time in a Indonesian jail turned her vegetarian.
‘I don’t eat meat anymore because my hallucinations were so vivid that I thought I was eating my dad’s human flesh,’ she explains during one interrogation scene.
Trauma: Schapelle Corby (pictured) is set to appear on Seven’s new military-style reality show SAS Australia. And on Monday’s premiere, the 43-year-old will detail how spending time in a Indonesian jail turned her vegetarian
Schapelle continued: ‘I would see visions, I would hallucinate and I wasn’t able to read. Reading really was my saviour before my illness because I would just block everything out and just read.
‘The only way my body could handle it was to hallucinate.’
The convicted drug smuggler explained her father Michael’s death in January 2008 triggered years of psychosis.
Tragic: The convicted drug smuggler explained her father Michael’s death in January 2008 triggered years of psychosis. Michael is pictured in 2005
Horror: ‘I don’t eat meat anymore because my hallucinations were so vivid that I thought I was eating my dad’s human flesh,’ she explains during one interrogation scene
Schapelle continued: ‘I would see visions, I would hallucinate and I wasn’t able to read. Reading really was my saviour before my illness because I would just block everything out. The only way my body could handle it was to hallucinate. I am not fully recovered from it’
She added: ‘I am not fully recovered from it. He (my dad) used to come to visit me a lot. I didn’t think that he would die and I didn’t understand that would be the last time that I would see him.
‘We had been appealing and appealing and then the final appeal came back denied so it was those things that I couldn’t get my head around. So mid 2008 I started losing my mind… hallucinating, I couldn’t eat.’
Schapelle served nine years in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison for marijuana smuggling. She was released in February 2014.
Convicted: Schapelle served nine years in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison for marijuana smuggling. She was released in February 2014. Pictured before her trial in April 2005
The former beautician is one of the many Australian stars set to appear on the Channel Seven show.
The show will see celebrities attempt to pass the selection process to join the Australian Army’s elite Special Air Service.
Other stars who have signed on include Roxy Jacenko, Nick ‘The Honey Badger’ Cummins, Candice Warner, Merrick Watts and Jackson Warne.
SAS Australia premieres Monday at 7.30pm on Channel Seven
Behind bars to television: The former beautician is one of the many Australian stars set to appear on the Channel Seven show