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Aus:Corby denies drug-fuelled Japan trip Press Release Brisbane Times Wednesday 14 May 2008 Ms Corby, the sister of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, was responding to a suggestion by Tom Hughes, for the Seven Network, which she is suing for defamation. She told Mr Hughes that letters written from Japan to her now former friend, Jodie Power, contained exaggerations because she was immature and young. While she agreed she had used marijuana in Japan, Ms Corby said this had only occurred on a handful of occasions and she would only have had one or two puffs. "I have never had a full joint in my life or half," she said, after earlier telling the jury she could not drink much alcohol and describing herself as "a cheap date". Mr Hughes quoted one letter written to Ms Power, in which Ms Corby said she regretted not being able to get her friend on the phone for a chat. "I may have wanted to ask her about her modelling contract in London ... which may have been an exaggeration," she told the jury. Mr Hughes asked why she was bringing up that matter and she replied: "We were both young and we exaggerated." Ms Corby claims she was defamed in interviews with Ms Power that were broadcast nationally on the Seven Network in February last year. She says she was falsely portrayed as a drug smuggler and dealer. Schapelle Corby is serving 20 years in a Bali prison after being convicted of smuggling 4.1kg of cannabis into Indonesia inside a bodyboard bag in 2004. The cross-examination of her sister is continuing before Justice Carolyn Simpson. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/corby-denies-drugfuelled-japan-trip/2008/05/15/1210765020131.html
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