Where to watch the new Michaella McCollum drug documentary and will it be on RTE?
Sign up to our FREE newsletter to make sure you don't miss a beat Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign up! Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice  The first episode of the BBC's new five-part documentary series on Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid's arrest for smuggling drugs airs later this evening and McCollum has described her ordeal as a 'journey'. The 28-year-old served more than two years in jail after she was caught with 1.6million worth of cocaine in 2013 with Scottish accomplice Melissa Reid. After releasing a new edition of her memoirs last week, now calling her book High, the Tyrone woman is front and centre in the new documentary series which airs tonight. McCollum and Reid were nicknamed the 'Peru Two' after they were caught trying to smuggle 11kg of cocaine out of Perus capital Lima back in August 2013. Both were sentenced to six years and eight months in prison - but were released in 2016. (Image: Instagram/ @michaella_mccollum)  High: Confessions Of An Ibiza Drug Mule airs tonight and the synopsis for Episode One is as follows: "Aged 19 and bored of where she grew up, Michaella craved sun and adventure. But her dream turned into a nightmare as she fell into an illicit world of drugs and excess." The first episode will air on BBC One at 22.35 on Monday, July 5 and viewers in the Republic of Ireland can watch it. The second episode will be shown at 22.35 on Thursday, July 8 on the same channel. High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule is also currently available for some viewers to watch on the BBC iPlayer with all five episodes added to their library. At present, it's unknown if RTE will be showing the documentary series and the Irish Mirror has reached out to the broadcaster for clarity on this. Michaella, from Dungannon in Co Tyrone, recently revealed she was high on drugs when she agreed to be a smuggler for a man called Davey but believed she only had to go on a trip from Ibiza to Barcelona. She said: Id taken so much of all of them during the five weeks Id been there that I honestly didnt see the problem. We were in that Ibizan bubble. In my addled logic, everyone I knew took drugs and they had to get them from somewhere. I saw lifting this package no differently to how I would see some kind of cash-in-hand payment. Not legal, as such, but a minor crime at worst, like a traffic offence. As the party wore on, I got more and more drawn into the hedonistic mood of the day. Everyone was high and, just to make things even more animated, I was persuaded by a group of friends to drop some acid. At one point I could have sworn one of the club staff was a train conductor trying to show me to my seat. Another time, I was seeing Disney characters everywhere. Basically, of all the drugs, acid is not the one to be on when there are decisions to be made. By the time Davey caught up with me later, I might as well have been in outer space.  After partying through the night, Michaella was set for the drugs run early in the morning but there was a stop to be made before the airport. She explained: When Davey said we were meeting someone at McDonalds I thought he was a mind reader. I desperately needed coffee and breakfast. "I ordered the full works and was just about to tuck in when a familiar face bowled in. It was Daveys business partner  the Brummie. Some things dont change. Our breakfasts were on two trays in front of us. The first thing the Brummie did was swat them aside then lay down lines of K [ketamine] and coke. Of everything Ive done, everything that I regret, sniffing Class A drugs off a table in McDonalds is up there. But thats hindsight for you.  McCollum is now living back in Northern Ireland, where she is bringing up two sons who were born in 2018.