Schapelle Corby ’overweight and stressed’ ahead of deportation to Australia

SCHAPELLE Corby has broken down in tears ahead of her return to Australia, as her friends are told to expect a very changed woman.

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SCHAPELLE Corby has cried and asked when she might be able to return to Indonesia when questioned by Bali correctional officers about her coming deportation from the country, officials say.

The convicted drug smuggler, who is set to return to Australia within weeks, has reportedly complained that she is overweight and stressed by the constant attention ahead of her May 27 deportation from the holiday isle but was upset at the prospect of never being able to return to the holiday isle.

“She said to me that she’s scared of the media,” Bali immigration chief Muhammad Natsir told Fairfax Media, saying she was constantly followed at home and on the beach.

“She’s overweight now because she is too scared to go and work out.”

Schapelle Corby has cried over the prospect of not being allowed to return to Indonesia. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro

More than three years after being released from Kerobokan prison on parole in February 2014, Corby met the head of Bali’s Correctional Division in Denpasar on Thursday as she prepares to say goodbye to Indonesia in May.

“She shed some tears. I told her not to cry,” head of Bali’s correction division Surung Pasaribu told AAP.

Corby — who will be deported to Australia after her parole expires on May 27 — at first seemed “suspicious and stressed” and did not want to talk about her release, Mr Pasaribu said.

While the 39-year-old appeared healthy, Mr Pasaribu said she mentioned she was sometimes afraid to go jogging and swimming in Bali because she feared people were following her.

Mr Pasaribu said Corby had asked when she would be allowed to visit Indonesia again.

It was a question best left to the Indonesian authorities in Australia, he told her.

Schapelle Corby jogs on a Bali beach this month. Picture: Supplied

Friends have been warned to expect a very changed woman when Corby returns to Australia after more than a decade.

“She’s been through a hell of a lot and they just want to be left alone,” a family friend told the Gold Coast Bulletin this week.

“It’s taken a lot out of her ... She’s not the same person she went in as.”

Corby was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2005 after she was arrested the previous year in Bali with 4.1kg of cannabis inside a bodyboard bag.

Originally published as Schapelle Corby ’overweight and stressed’ ahead of deportation to Australia