Andrea Mohr

Andrea Mohr was an international drug smuggler who traveled the world living the high life. She mingled with celebrities, holidayed in exotic destinations and tried her hand at acting and modeling in Japan, Thailand and Germany. She worked in nightclubs in Berlin as a cabaret dancer, and from there she entered the dark world of smuggling drugs from South America, Asia and Africa.

When Andrea came to live in Australia the high life finally caught up with her, and she was charged with being knowingly concerned in the importation of 5.5 kilos of cocaine worth $2.7 million dollars. She was sentenced to five years jail to be served in Deer Park Women’s Prison. In Victoria’s only maximum security women’s prison, Mohr was detained with murderers and thieves. For five long years she was forced to confront the daily rounds of violence and intimidation, and learnt the hard way how tough the women of the streets could be. She watched as prisoners fell prey to despair, madness and even death, and witnessed the return of those who made it out but couldn’t stay clean. Amid the tragic, ruthless and forgotten, she resolved to turn her life around. After overcoming her own addictions and finally getting clean, she then drew upon her experiences to help others caught up in the tough system that had little sympathy for its prisoners.  

Andrea Mohr is a passionate advocate for prisoners’ rights and a member of a number of organisations that support prisoners.  She has turned her hand to writing as a career and is a published cookbook author. She lives in Germany surrounded by her family and friends and has never returned to drugs since her time in Melbourne’s Deer Park prison. Andrea is the author of Pixie.