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A paid trip. A suitcase pickup. A sentence of 11 years and eight months.

Leandra Royer joins TK in the DARKSIDE interrogation room for Villain Origin Stories.

Before Baddies Gone Wild, Leandra was pursuing acting, modeling, and a future in entertainment. Then a trip to England placed her inside a cocaine-smuggling operation involving more than 300 kilograms of drugs. She has publicly said she didn’t know the suitcases contained cocaine—and deliberately avoided asking what was inside.

After roughly 19 months in UK custody, she returned to the United States. Her prison story went viral, and a new chapter in reality television followed.

Her story raises uncomfortable questions: What responsibility do we carry for the things we choose not to know? What happens when the decision that costs you your freedom becomes the story everyone knows you for? And who gets to decide whether you’ve changed?

Villain Origin Stories is a long-form interview series about the experiences that shape us, the choices that follow, and the complicated line between being hurt and causing harm.

00:00 Episode Preview
00:52 Welcome to VOS & Meet Leandra Royer
02:00 Moral Dilemma: Punishing a Crime Before It Happens
05:11 Teenage Parents, Family Conflict & Running Away
11:16 Acting as an Escape From Reality
17:28 Dropping Out & Chasing Hollywood
21:11 OnlyFans, Fast Money & Shrooms
24:48 Bad Luck & the Man Who Stole $25,000
26:38 Moving to LA & Quitting OnlyFans
28:43 Hollywood’s Dark Side & Finding God
37:23 An ATV Accident, Eviction & Nine Months Homeless
39:39 The Offer That Led to the Cocaine Case
44:56 How the Operation Got Caught
49:01 Her Account of Being Blamed by a Co-Defendant
54:18 Risking Her Freedom for $2,500
58:13 Sentenced to 11 Years & Eight Months
1:01:05 Life Inside UK Women’s Prisons
1:07:48 Solitary Confinement & a Prison Cell Fire
1:09:22 How Prison Changed Her Identity
1:12:12 Telling Her Family & Losing Relationships
1:19:46 Writing Her Story From Prison
1:20:50 How She Got Released Early & Deported
1:28:58 From Prison to Baddies Gone Wild
1:32:42 Going Viral & Facing Snitching Accusations
1:38:30 The Lauren Comment & Her First Baddies Fight
1:43:46 The “Evil Mastermind” Edit & Leandra Theory
1:45:50 Leandra Says Producers Arranged Fights
1:51:23 Why She Says Baddies Was Worse Than Prison
1:55:07 Fame, Mental Health & Unfinished Healing
1:57:55 Cutting Off Her Roster & Choosing Solitude
1:59:35 What She Would Tell Her Younger Self

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Credits:
Executive Produced by C.Y. Lee
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Created, Directed, Produced, And Edited By Michael "Tk" Akinlosotu
Cinematographer: Daniel Upson
Host: TK
Guest: Leandra Royer
Editor: Steven Vargas
Producer: Bueli Njheri
Producer: Chantice D
Soundtrack And Audio Mixing: TK

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