Married at First Sight Australia 2024‘s Timothy Smith has opened up about his drug trafficking past in a tell-all TV interview.
As first reported by So Dramatic!, Timothy spent over a year in several super-maximum prisons in the US after being busted trafficking marijuana across the Canadian border via helicopter in 2006.
Appearing on Nine’s A Current Affair on April 10, the now-52-year-old said his past “is not something [he’s] proud of”.
“I’m definitely not proud of it, but it doesn’t define who I am, and I’m not the same person I was 17 years ago,” he assured.
Married at First Sight‘s Timothy Smith reveals how he began drug trafficking
Recalling how he found himself flying across national borders, Timothy said he was approached by a group of people looking for a helicopter pilot while he was living in Canada.
“Someone threw some money at me and said: ‘Go and take a lesson tomorrow’,” he said. “I did, and the instructor said I was a natural. That was the beginning of the end.
“I would take off from a little unmanned airport. I had the helicopter sorted, and I’d fly up a valley and into a creek.”
He would then “meet a 4WD and land behind it”.
“Within a minute, the helicopter would be loaded with marijuana, and I’d fly south into the US,” he recalled.
Timothy later pleaded guilty to trafficking after flying over 20 missions across state lines.
“It was $100,000 a trip for a couple of hours of work,” the TV groom said.
Timothy Smith warns people against falling into the same situation
As previously reported by So Dramatic!, Timothy was arrested at customs in LA after returning from Australia, where he’d just visited his sick mother, who had just been diagnosed with cancer.
Sadly, Timothy’s mother died while he was in prison. His younger brother, Dave, died by suicide several months later, also while Timothy was incarcerated.
“That’s where the sentence starts,” he told A Current Affair, recalling that he never saw his mum or brother again. “I’m sorry for what I did.
“I’m sorry to everyone I hurt, and I don’t want anyone to do what I did. I don’t want you to think there’s some sort of glamorous life out there; there are real consequences.”
Want even more goss? Listen to the So Dramatic! podcast with Megan Pustetto below!
Know something that we don’t? Spill the tea here!
Get the tea first! Follow So Dramatic! on Instagram and tune in on Mondays to get your reality tea fix with the So Dramatic! podcast with Megan Pustetto.
