She says she spent 30 hours in a “cell”. Photo / @mikaelatesta, Instagram
An Aussie influencer has spilt harrowing details about being detained by the US government before being deported.
Earlier this week, Instagram sensation and OnlyFans star Mikaela Testa said she flew 20 hours from Perth to Los Angeles via Sydney, only to be detained on arrival in the US.
The 23-year-old was not let into the United States and has since returned to Australia, where she has now revealed the distressing details about the 30 hours she spent in a “cell”.
“I was just held by the US government for nearly two days in a cell,” a teary Mikaela told her TikTok followers.
“I say ‘No ma’am’, and then she says I lied to her face. She pulls up a Twitter photo of me with a bunch of girls from the US, in a country that wasn’t the US.
“I said, ‘I thought you meant in the United States’. It was at that moment I was sent to another room, where they hold people who are not there for good things.”
She claims the room she was sent to was like a “war movie” where they just had a “box of tampons, a kettle and cups of instant noodles”.
“I started breaking down. I was completely searched, I had to take everything off,” she alleges.
“[The room] looks like a war movie. It looks like where they hold people, like, from the war, like the enemies.
“I spoke to a girl, she had been there for three days.”
“It was a rodeo. I was deported back to Australia, I found out an hour before.
“When you’re deported, you’re not allowed to go back through the airport. They put you in a metal car [and] you get driven on the tarmac to the plane door with police officers.
“I was just a mess, but now I’m back in Australia.”