Sharon Yitzhaki
Israeli author of the bestselling memoir "10 Kilos of Cocaine" about surviving four years in Bolivia's Miraflores prison, later adapted into the film "10 Kilos"; also a swimwear designer.
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Sep 16, 2026
Heather McDonaldHOST
or was there like, you know, could you walk outside and eat at a picnic pinch? What was it like? Could you work out? At the
Sharon YitzhakiGUEST
beginning it was awful because I didn't know my place and I couldn't understand who's against who.
Sharon YitzhakiGUEST
But then when I started to speak Spanish and I understand where I am and who's against who, So I established my status there.
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Sharon YitzhakiGUEST
I took everything and booked my flight earlier and went to the airport, and in the airport, when I, uh, got to the plane, they asked me to, to come to the front of the plane.
Sharon YitzhakiGUEST
They told me, "We detected drugs, uh, in your suitcases, and, um, we, we've s- we have a, a very big suspicions that you having a lot of drugs there." And, you know, I, I was like, "Ah.
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Sharon YitzhakiGUEST
And of course, she had to go to rehab before she enters to the cells with us.
Sharon YitzhakiGUEST
And the police, uh, woman asks, asks me to guard it, the kid, you know, for a couple of hours, uh, until they managed to put her in.
Sharon YitzhakiGUEST
And then in a couple of hours, they asked me to do it for a couple of days, and then couple of weeks, and it becomes a month.
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