When a mother's worst fears come true

Now can we talk about stupidity, when do these young people learn that

it can happen to them, when it is to late


By Stuart McLeanAugust 22, 2005

THE arrest of Australian model Michelle Leslie is every parent's worst nightmare.Michelle's mother Violet last night said she was worried about her daughter going to Bali and urged her to be careful.

"I was scared," Violet said from the family home in Adelaide after being told of her daughter's plight.
"I've been telling her 'don't go to Bali'."

Michelle, who also works under the name of Michelle Lee, was among a group of five people picked up early Saturday during a raid on a party at the GWK park, a large public auditorium on the cliffs near Kuta.

Michelle text-messaged her mother saying "don't stress" before going to Bali after a modelling shoot in Singapore.

The 24-year-old international model is trapped in a horror story that could see her facing up to 10 years in an Indonesian jail.

It is a long way from the bars and nightclubs of New York and cities of Europe to an isolation cell in a Bali police station.

The question millions of Australians will be asking today is why would anyone run the risk of being caught with drugs in their possession after the harsh lessons of the Schapelle Corby case.

Michelle fronted an revitalised advertising campaign for Antz Pantz this year and is instantly recognisable as the national face of Crystelle lingerie.

Working for Chic modelling agency - which last night removed the model's photographs from their website - Michelle has travelled the world with her work.

She was also working to establish her own clothing label, Prize Fighter, and was trying to break into television.
For the past few years she has been based in New York for at least eight months of the year, spending two or three months in Sydney.

When in Sydney she lives in the southern Sydney suburb of Sylvania.

In New York she lives in the West Village.

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